Neflix AI is spooky

hyperseven · 6 Jun 2020 at 17:13

Was just watching ITV and an ad came on for Jurassic world on tomorrow. Was at my parents so had a quick look on Netflix to see if it was on their so they could watch tonight and spookily enough it was displayed as the promoted video :eek:

How did they know?

Are they always watching?

dowie · 6 Jun 2020 at 17:30

lol can seem like that sometimes - this is like when people think facebook has listened to a convo then shown relevant ads...

(obviously a new release will be promoted in multiple places)

arknor · 6 Jun 2020 at 17:31

a lot of it is probably just keeping track of search trends on google etc I'd imagine then promoting those films on netflix front page.

Monkeynut · 6 Jun 2020 at 17:32

It's likely that Netflix and ITV are buying a "pack" of films from the distributor and it happens to be the same "top" film in each why is why they are promoting it so heavily.

dowie · 6 Jun 2020 at 17:40

arknor said:
a lot of it is probably just keeping track of search trends on google etc I'd imagine then promoting those films on netflix front page.

It can be more personalised than that and has been from the start, they'll make suggestions based on previous things you've watched (they even had a competition running for a few years with a 1 million dollar prize to improve their algo). Obviously they'll still seek to promote their new releases etc...

sigma · 6 Jun 2020 at 18:18

They probably heard you talking about it.

hyperseven · 6 Jun 2020 at 18:24

sigma said:
They probably heard you talking about it.

Scary where all this machine learning malarky is going. Reminds me of those personised ads in the Minority Report.

Mind you when it does become fully self-aware it defo going to wipe us all out

sigma · 6 Jun 2020 at 18:25

hyperseven said:
Mind you when it does become fully self-aware it defo going to wipe us all out

Well it’s certainly one way to save the planet

krooton · 6 Jun 2020 at 18:27

Or maybe the TV ads caused a spike of searches within Netflix, causing it to trend.... Occam's Razor n all that.

dowie · 6 Jun 2020 at 20:15

sigma said:
They probably heard you talking about it.

Dirk Diggler · 6 Jun 2020 at 20:24

sigma said:
They probably heard you talking about it.

Some people are convinced their phone is listening to what they talk about and then displaying ads on web pages... it doesn't seem to register with them that the reason they were talking about the product was because of the ads they previously saw.

jellybeard999 · 6 Jun 2020 at 21:05

Is this not a case of for X thousand things you see advertised on Netflix, this one has particularly stuck in your mind?

If it was a different film advertised, I presume you wouldn't have given it a second thought?

Ie it's pure coincidence, and in this instance, the top film happens to have matched your conversation.

Similar to how people are convinced they look at a clock and it's the same time every day, when in actual fact, you look at it frequently, but only take note on those significant numbers.

Rising · 6 Jun 2020 at 21:45

Well Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom just came out yesterday so it is always likely to be the promoted film

phenx · 6 Jun 2020 at 22:45

They were probably paid by the publishing company to advertise it in-order to promote the new film.

SaintJimmy · 7 Jun 2020 at 01:11

Think it's just a coincidence, it's been pushed on my account every time I log or finish watching something last couple of days and I've not mentioned it or searched for anything like it.

arknor · 7 Jun 2020 at 01:22

anyone else noticed a lot of websites won't work and load a blank page if they can't track you with cookies or is that just firefox being less supported

Energize · 7 Jun 2020 at 02:07

arknor said:
anyone else noticed a lot of websites won't work and load a blank page if they can't track you with cookies or is that just firefox being less supported

Cookies are required for the basic functioning of most websites, it's not just about tracking.

arknor · 7 Jun 2020 at 02:14

Energize said:
Cookies are required for the basic functioning of most websites, it's not just about tracking.

yea I'm not forbidding all cookies just advertising ones etc that try to track you across sites

hyperseven · 7 Jun 2020 at 02:18

jellybeard999 said:
Is this not a case of for X thousand things you see advertised on Netflix, this one has particularly stuck in your mind?

If it was a different film advertised, I presume you wouldn't have given it a second thought?

Ie it's pure coincidence, and in this instance, the top film happens to have matched your conversation.

Similar to how people are convinced they look at a clock and it's the same time every day, when in actual fact, you look at it frequently, but only take note on those significant numbers.

No

An advert came on ITV saying Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom on tomorrow @19:30, this was during ad break in 'The Masked Singer USA'.

To save the folks watching it with ads and when they wanted I immediately looked it up on Netflix app on my phone to see if was in their catalogue.

It was the promoted film (the one showing in the background that shows little clip and takes up a third of the page)

If I go on now it promoting something called 'Baki', some anime.

Sirrel Squirrel · 7 Jun 2020 at 08:32

It came out on Netflix the other day, that's why they're promoting it too. You normally find that films come out on more than one service at the same time once they are clear of the exclusive rights that other services have, Sky for example.