Advertising turned brains of entire generation (or maybe a few) into mush.

All intellectual, psych and social scores are in free fall since introduction of ad-supported attention grabbing internet.

AI is theorethical threat. Advertising is a constant detriment to our brains, societies and culture.

If AI can mitigate a fraction of the damage that ads do it will have massive positive impact.

We live in times where everyone can pick their own flavor of apocalypse to be scared of. Ads are leading us into Idiocracy since ~2004 and made huge progress towards it.

Google and Meta's wealth came at the cost of civilization getting sucked dry of its attention and mental capacity.