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by joegibbs on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:32AM
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I think subliminal advertising is banned in quite a few countries - not sure about the US - so it might be a problem internationally. I know that here in Australia there was a big scare about it in the mid 2000s, some station was cutting 100ms ads into shows. Not sure about the efficacy of it though, I’m sure it would be better if you watched a whole ad.
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by JambalayaJimbo on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:57AM
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TV shows and movies often have subliminal ads. A character will use a specific type of phone for example.
That's not subliminal, that's plain old product placement.
How are you going to prove that a few thousand weights among billions on a privately owned server were actually amplified or ablated post-training?
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by sumtechguy on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @11:25AM
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Edward Bernays created a method to get people to buy/hate/like things. It is used all the time. Its manipulative and shockingly effective. You will never see it coming. It is used all the time on everyone for any plethora of subjects. Subliminal advertising while mildly effective can not hold a candle to the Edward Barnays method of selling.
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by rustcleaner on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @11:47AM
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Meme magic, is what I call it. Like how the stage magician moves whole islands for the crowd, TV magicians move whole populations by changing their internal representative models of reality.
This is the machine that magicians program for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_e0EvEZn8