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OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Post by eswdd »

bigiain wrote: post #27
NalNezumi wrote: post #17

Feels like this is a baby step in what to come. We know that one of the best advertisement is word of mouth / recommendations from friend. I can easily imagine a direction where ChatGPT or the chat bots to spend an incredibly long time with the user to establish trust first. It will start to take in to account how much trust & thinking you've outsourced to it, and when it is certain of it, it will start to increase t…

If anyone from OpenAI is reading... The very first time I see one of these ads, I'm cancelling my ChatGPT subscription. Measure _that_ metric in your A/B testing.

Its sad to see what the industry broadly has become.

I get firms need to make money but cmon. If you're an OAI employee you can't truly say you have a soul. The amount of times they gone back on their word.. comical.

They got greedy, wanted to raise a lot of money and promised big things. Well those big things arent ever coming, so they turn to whatever means in order to generate cash flows.

Pathetic and sad.

Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Post by operatingthetan »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #39
cs702 wrote: post #32

How I imagine the Nash equilibrium in chatbot ads, driven by profit-seeking in a race to the bottom: User: "What's the best way to fix this problem I have?" Chatbot: "I recommend buying this shiny thing here." (Next to it, there's a near-invisible light-gray "ad" notice.) Let's hope I'm wrong.

Look at Google in 2000s. If you travel back in time you would’ve never thought Google would do something like it is doing today. Now pretend you travelled back in time to 2026. You would’ve never thought OpenAI (open source non profit company) would do something crazy that it just did in 2030 or 2040 or where you came from.

I think pretty much everyone expects OpenAI to do the bad thing in the future given their track record.

Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Post by cjbgkagh »

crowcroft wrote: post #8

The most surprising thing to me is that they're partnering with third parties to do this. Less secure, lower margins (more middlemen taking fees), harder to access, more likely to not work properly. I would expect all the meta execs they've hired to know better so maybe I'm missing something...

My guess is that three letter agencies will have access to this data and are requiring this partnership.

Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Post by eswdd »

analogpixel wrote: post #25
doesnt_know wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely you jest? The software industry is in its current sorry state because of multiple generations of human developers happily producing an endless stream of shady features.

I have a theory, that the "FANG" companies pay such high salaries in compensation for making those devs implement shady features that are harmful to everyone except the bottom line of the company.

If that\s true then those devs should not complain if people attack them verbally over it - that\s what they are getting paid for, right?

Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Post by eswdd »

focusedone wrote: post #7

The shocking thing is that it's taken this long to happen, right?

Theyre desperate to meet those lofty revenue objectives they put in their spreadsheet model.

Its kinda comical seeing this play out. I still laugh at the deluded fools who think something even close to AGI is here or coming in the future. If that were true, why haven't we seen genius plays from OAI and Anthropic, progressively over-time, if intelligence rises as compute scales up? If anything we are seeing the opposite.

Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Post by crowcroft »

cjbgkagh wrote: post #43
crowcroft wrote: post #8

The most surprising thing to me is that they're partnering with third parties to do this. Less secure, lower margins (more middlemen taking fees), harder to access, more likely to not work properly. I would expect all the meta execs they've hired to know better so maybe I'm missing something...

My guess is that three letter agencies will have access to this data and are requiring this partnership.

Three letter agencies are telling OpenAI to partner with a Toronto based ad platform?

Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Post by nkrisc »

jmalicki wrote: post #18
jackb4040 wrote: post #3

Didn't they explicitly say the ads wouldn't be made aware of prompt data when they announced them? And if so, how is that not securities fraud?

Wouldn't it have to have a negative effect on the security to be securities fraud? Causing an investor loss is a key point of securities fraud. "We made a ton more money with ads and the stock went up" lacks that key element of fraud?

Investors who bought an artificially inflated stock would be harmed.

Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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Post by PullJosh »

operatingthetan wrote: post #42
cryptoegorophy wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look at Google in 2000s. If you travel back in time you would’ve never thought Google would do something like it is doing today. Now pretend you travelled back in time to 2026. You would’ve never thought OpenAI (open source non profit company) would do something crazy that it just did in 2030 or 2040 or where you came from.

I think pretty much everyone expects OpenAI to do the bad thing in the future given their track record.

I can’t believe they haven’t already
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