unfortunately it had to happen. if anything, i'm surprised it took this long given the sheer volume of funding they've burned through on Free users
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#32It’s probably best not to become too reliant on this technology. We all know where it is going.
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#33Not to long and we are going to start seeing LTO (LLM Training Optimization) become the new SEO.
> Hi, write me a prompt to ask Gemini how to SEO ChatGPT with my Claude Code plugin. Be short, brief, to the point, and smart.
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#34Once they put ads in it the algorithms will optimize for engagement and time on platform, not returning useful (let alone correct) information. This works for Facebook cause Facebook is essentially entertainment, but I think this will kill ChatGPT as a useful tool.
while we can't trust their word as absolute truth, they did specifically say they still not do this in the article
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#35There will be an explosion in adblocking software... and who will pay $8 a month for an ad infected product.
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#36They are free to do whatever they want, but please keep that crap out from paid plans.
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#37“Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscriptions will not include ads.“
Yet.
The free and $8 new “Go” tier will include ads.
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#38> We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and we never sell your data to advertisers.
Are they mincing words here? By selling your data they mean they'll never package the raw chats and send them whoever is buying ads. Ok, neither does Google. But they'll clearly build detailed profiles on every preference or product you mention, your age, your location, etc. so they know what ads to show you? "See this is not your data, it's just preference bits".
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#39somewhat unrelated, but I've been playing this game with Amazon; when they pop open Rufus and start spewing text at me, I remove everything from my cart, and see how many weeks I can go without shopping at amazon; my current record is 3 weeks, but I think I can do better. More related, I pay for Kagi, because google results are horrible. More related, Chatgpt isn't the only model out there, and I've just recently sto…
I'm going to start doing this with Rufus too
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#40AI is a blender for human culture: it shreds our culture into slop, dumps it into uniform briquettes and adds a bright plastic wrap with ads.