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How ChatGPT serves ads
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#22This is gross It feels like we’ve been in the golden age and the window is coming to a close Let the enshitification begin, I guess
How do you expect the spend & COGS for free LLM inference to be funded? For users who don't want to pay, or maybe can't pay?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not sure why a model needs to be hosted in order to make network calls?
Is there a library of good tools for LLMs to call? I have to imagine the bot-detection avoidance mechanisms are a major engineering effort and not likely to work out of the box with a simple harness and random local LLM.
Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Perplexity, and Linkup are all tools for agents to search the web.
I’ve been building a harness the past few months and supports them all out of the box with an API key.
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#24Remember that ads are the "last resort" for OpenAI, and they're doing this despite the fact that it's "uniquely unsettling", according to Sam.
Was he lying, or has OpenAI given up hope that this train wreck works economically without enshittification? Neither option is good, but I don't really see a third.
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#25I see OpenAI making a significantly larger amount from defense contracts than from advertisements pumped into chats. So I wonder whose bright idea it was to create a public perception risk.
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#26That's cool, I'll never see them.
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#27This is gross It feels like we’ve been in the golden age and the window is coming to a close Let the enshitification begin, I guess
How do you expect the spend & COGS for free LLM inference to be funded? For users who don't want to pay, or maybe can't pay?
From things like defense/private contracts
e.g. colleges pay for institutional subscriptions
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#28This is gross It feels like we’ve been in the golden age and the window is coming to a close Let the enshitification begin, I guess
It has begun ever since they nerfed chatgpt4 before releasing 4o
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#29I'd always thought that ChatGPT ads would be indistinguishable from actual content.
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#30I see OpenAI making a significantly larger amount from defense contracts than from advertisements pumped into chats. So I wonder whose bright idea it was to create a public perception risk.
Maybe the negative press from ads is better than the negative press from powering murderbots?