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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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Re: OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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Who actually wants this? I guess we’re about to find out if this helps put out the massive pile of burning cash that OpenAI is trying to deal with, but I know nobody that wants this. OpenAI claims we’re near AGI and this is the best strategy they have? Oy vey!

Most people either don't care or actually like targeted ads. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411110/consumer-percept...

57% of people like being reminded about stuff left in their cart? My god we are cooked.

Re: OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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The whole world is drowning in ads, and people have by and large done nothing about it. Revealed preference is that the vast majority of people support ads.

Support or tolerate or don’t realize there are alternatives?

Everything on the internet is free. Everyone expects everything on the internet to be free. Therefore, everything is run on ads.

Re: OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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post #22

Who actually wants this? I guess we’re about to find out if this helps put out the massive pile of burning cash that OpenAI is trying to deal with, but I know nobody that wants this. OpenAI claims we’re near AGI and this is the best strategy they have? Oy vey!

OpenAI pushing ads seems like a big fat blinking SELL warning to me.

They claim they are close to creating a Machine God that threatens all human life... but this is the best business plan it can come up with?

Maybe your omnipotent machine could come up with that cure for cancer you keep saying it will, and then you sell that? Or design an innovative new battery? Or, hell, let's be more realistic: Why can't it make really fun iOS games that you can sell? Or generate Marvel quality blockbusters, that should bring in at least a few billion.

Re: OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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Support or tolerate or don’t realize there are alternatives?

Everything on the internet is free. Everyone expects everything on the internet to be free. Therefore, everything is run on ads.

Lots of people don't mind paying when they have money to burn. The problem is that so many people don't.

Re: OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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This is the lie advertisers tell themselves to be able to sleep at night. Ads are cancer on content. No one wants them. They only serve to make the presentation of useful content worse.

Ads are useful, they help you reach customers

Even that only makes sense if endless consumption is a given good thing.

If I need something I usually have a need first, then I research then I buy. It's never the thing in the ads in between that turns out to be best.

Re: OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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This is the lie advertisers tell themselves to be able to sleep at night. Ads are cancer on content. No one wants them. They only serve to make the presentation of useful content worse.

Ads are useful, they help you reach customers

"Ads are useful, they help you lie to and manipulate customers"

Information is useful, but that's not what ads are for. No one is interested in giving consumers honest and accurate information about their products without lies and attempts at manipulation. Forcing an unsolicited ad on someone is itself an act of manipulation.

Re: OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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post #22

Who actually wants this? I guess we’re about to find out if this helps put out the massive pile of burning cash that OpenAI is trying to deal with, but I know nobody that wants this. OpenAI claims we’re near AGI and this is the best strategy they have? Oy vey!

If you don’t want it then just pay for ChatGPT. If you’re angry about it and ALSO don’t want to pay then I’m sure OpenAI doesn’t mind losing you as a customer.

That's not a valid argument to the "OpenAI trained on my content without compensation" crowd.

Re: OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

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post #22

Who actually wants this? I guess we’re about to find out if this helps put out the massive pile of burning cash that OpenAI is trying to deal with, but I know nobody that wants this. OpenAI claims we’re near AGI and this is the best strategy they have? Oy vey!

The whole world is drowning in ads, and people have by and large done nothing about it. Revealed preference is that the vast majority of people support ads.

I've known people in abusive relationships who would tell you they're happy. We can't pretend like conditioning or manufactured consent aren't a thing.
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