I've seen chatgpt suggest me more amazon products lately
How ChatGPT serves ads
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Re: How ChatGPT serves ads
#62These are the less worrying kind of ads in our future.
Seeing how google has been fighting SEO for ages, what's going to happen when companies figure out how to inject ads into the model?
We haven't yet seen the problem of adversarial content in play, I think.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe the negative press from ads is better than the negative press from powering murderbots?
Bad press from a contract like that happens once and everyone forgets. Ads are in your face everytime
"OpenAI Powered Drone Destroys Elementary School, Hundreds of Children Dead" might last a while.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
The average person doesn't benefit from defense contracts ... Like ever.
The average person is slightly more female than male and has 2.1 children, but they do benefit from defense contracts since it makes up a small percentage of their salary.
You are a fun person. We should be friends
Re: How ChatGPT serves ads
#65I'd always thought that ChatGPT ads would be indistinguishable from actual content.
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#66So news about OpenAI demise is real. They can’t sustain themselves without ads.
Never in any world were any of the top AI labs not going to sustain themselves with ads. It has always been a timing issue.
Even a cut on every sale on site + sub rev not close.
Re: How ChatGPT serves ads
#67Since they are served as distinct events then I would think they should be easy to block. Once the ads are injected directly into the main response is when things get interesting.
Blocking transparent ads is not a good idea. The consequence is that you will be fed opaque ads.
I don't buy this premise. Nothing stops a company from trying to hide ads in the first place, and plenty of them do. Ad blockers for web content have been a thing for years, and using an ad blocker has continued to be strictly a better experience regardless of how many "organic" ads are present on a page.
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#68Less than two years ago, Sam Altman said
> I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model. I would do it if it meant that was the only way to get everybody in the world access to great services, but if we can find something that doesn't do that, I'd prefer that.
So, is this OpenAI announcing they're strapped for cash?
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this would be a breach of trust and short term would work great but long term is too detrimental. same thing could've been said for search results, so at least that part is still "safe".
O you think trust matters? This is capitalism not trustism.
Well it's sure not "anti-trustism" in recent years...
Re: How ChatGPT serves ads
#70So news about OpenAI demise is real. They can’t sustain themselves without ads.
Never in any world were any of the top AI labs not going to sustain themselves with ads. It has always been a timing issue. Even a cut on every sale on site + sub rev not close.
Even if it wasn't necessary for their survival, it's hard to imagine a world where they wouldn't try to do it anyways. I'm not someone who buys into the idea that companies are obligated to maximize profits at the expense of all else, but I do think that in the absence of other factors (e.g. regulation) it's where pretty much every company will end up.