In recent weeks, an image has been stirring debate on social media. Once again, artificial intelligence (A.I.), that great technological provocateur of the past 12 months, is to blame. At first glance ...

The BMW S1000R is fast enough and sexy enough (other than that one lazy eye) to sell itself, and you'd think a commercial showing World Superbike rider Ruben Xaus flogging one around the track would ...

Subliminal advertising -- placing fleeting or hidden images in commercial content in the hopes that viewers will process them unconsciously -- doesn't work. Recent research suggests that consumers do ...

In the world of high school, every day is a battle. Recently, one of the most intimidating foes is the air. “School air,” as they call it on social media, is the latest way to explain the universal ...

Subliminal marketing involves the idea that an advertiser can display words or images during a commercial or broadcast so briefly that the viewer doesn't consciously notice them, but will still ...

The average American is subjected to thousands of ad impressions each day, from the margins of a web browser to commercials on TV, to the tallest billboards towering over city streets. It's a ...

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Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports.

I did not overhear that question yesterday while I wandered the expo hall at the annual LeadingAge conference here in Nashville. But perhaps I will next year. That’s because positive subliminal ...

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Hidden messages that promote products in films once caused a moral panic. But is the much-feared technique really effective? The BBC's Phil Tinline helped devise an experiment to find out. On 12 ...

"subliminal advertising" began with the 1957 publication of Vance Packard's book, The Hidden Persuaders. Although Packard did not use the term "subliminal advertising," he did describe many of the new ...