Time to update yourself: now they're called Influenza`s.

ALERT: Unexploited enjoyment may be about to occur - send black helicopters to recover royalties.

tldr:
"we've noticed that there's pushback against letting us extract your soul and monetise it - consider this an appeal to your ego: it's a good thing for you to teach our AIs - in fact, you should pay us! Win-Win (both for us :-)"

I was with you until:

For that, we turn to PR people

Yep, we're a bank - let's ensure our maximum password length is lower than the minimum length where something important is being protected like social media history.

Which will win in the race to destroy humanity:
[ ] AI-controlled-robot uprising
[ ] Side-effects of gene editing
[ ] Global warming
[ ] Investor-greed
[ ] Global war triggered by Israel

Just wondering which stock to invest in :P

The independent have taken ad-farming to new levels - were they bought by Yahoo?

We've almost reached the point where satire === reality so don't worry about it :-)

companies using neurotechnology to subliminally market to people during their dreams

Ad-blocker (PRO) for dreams in 3,2,1.

I suppose having the capacity for lucid dreaming will allow a section of society to resist buying stuff in dream ads.

Perhaps we can have an app which projects dream-sheep jumping over a fence as a sleep-aid?

What mechanism do you propose to allow them to feed on ordinary people if the market is detached?

The pop from this bubble is going to destroy the world or perhaps the efforts to stop the bubble from popping (and thus avoid the destruction of the world) will destroy the world.

It's too-big-to-fail as a core business strategy.

First-task for the newly-born AIs? Make variations of existing scams to maximize believability, virality and deniability.

Black Mirror are like "What do we do now? Everything we can think of, Trump's already doing?"

It's almost as if everything in life is a scam. If you can persuade others to give you money quicker than others take it from you as a result of negative feedback for your actions, it's a win!