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[โ€“] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Well piracy is the only way then.

[โ€“] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

๐Ÿคฎ Glad I deleted my account years ago and use kodi to host my own library

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[โ€“] Elkot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Well, time to cancel finally I've gotten used to torrenting again anyway

[โ€“] drmoose@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I recently setup my own Jellyfin server with qbittorent search plug-ins and its so easy. Netflix is really playing with fire here cause people will leave when pushed enough as it's becoming so easy to switch. You can just hop on your friends server too

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[โ€“] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Luckily I haven't paid for a streaming service in years.

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[โ€“] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Bye Netflix, hello plex.

Edit: hello Jellyfin, as helpful users have mentioned the enshitification of plex to me.

[โ€“] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

I have some bad news for you

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[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There is no way this doesnโ€™t wind up making an ad that's misleading enough to get Netflix and/or the advertiser in trouble

[โ€“] Chozo@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago

These ads will most definitely not be generated on-the-fly; too risky and too costly. They'll be pre-generated and pre-approved AI-generated videos.

Imagine a collection of videos like that AI Coca Cola commercial (but for a soon-to-be-cancelled Netflix series instead of a soda), with a dozen different versions of it made for each "user archetype" Netflix identifies. That's going to be how Netflix implements this.

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[โ€“] Darjuz@feddit.it 19 points 1 week ago

The shittyfication goes forward...

[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

I've cancelled my subscriptions to only subscribe to the platforms owned by our national broadcaster even if there's one of them I don't watch any shows on, fuck those American platforms.

[โ€“] Furbag@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is there a way to poison the well so badly and so irrevocably that corporations won't dare use generative AI for anything? Can we somehow trick these overgrown chatbots to speak ill of their masters in the form of direct-to-stream advertisements?

[โ€“] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Ask Musk. He managed to do it on accident.

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[โ€“] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

And canceled my sub

[โ€“] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Annnnd goodbye Netflix subscription

[โ€“] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

why do people still pay for that shit

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[โ€“] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I can't tell from the article what the AI side of this is? Are Netflix offering to make adverts for customslrs using AI? Are they just showing adverts in general from customers, including AI generated ones?

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I've read the article twice and still don't know ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] IllNess@infosec.pub 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eventually they will start making shows based on the user watching the show.

Please see Black Mirror, Series 6, Episode 1, "Joan Is Awful"

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[โ€“] criss_cross@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I dunno at some point Iโ€™m just gonna stop watching tv and find other ways to entertain myself.

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[โ€“] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Not to me, they fucking won't

[โ€“] el_twitto@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Netflix can fuck right off as I cancel my subscription and board the Jolly Roger

[โ€“] mooncake@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Netflix doing their best to lose whatever customers they have left rofl

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[โ€“] J3ffJ4cks0n@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I down vote this does it show my disappointment of netflix or the OP? ๐Ÿค”

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[โ€“] SVcross@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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