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Eric Hal Schwartz

AI video commercials are starting to spread, but people won't trust uncanny valley endorsements

AI ads.

There's a shift in the kinds of people and environments appearing in video ads that's distinctly uncanny as AI videos become far easier and cheaper to make than real commercials.

You might not pay too much attention to the videos popping up next to Reddit comments or the commercials playing on a streaming service that you don't watch often enough to justify buying the ad-free subscription. Still, the fake smiles and unrealistically beautiful homes are sometimes synthetic in a whole new way.

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