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Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

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Re: Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

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Ads in AI should be banned right now. We need to learn from mistakes of the internet (crypto, facebook) and aggressively regulate early and often before this gets too institutionalized to remove.

Ads (at least in the classical pre-AI sense) are by orders of magnitude better than preventive laws

Re: Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

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The article is forgetting about Anthropic which currently has the best agentic programmer and was the backbone for the recent OpenClaw assistants.

True, we focused on hardware embodied AI assistants (smart speakers, smart glasses, etc) as those are the ones we believe will soon start leaving wake words behind and moving towards an always-on interaction design. The privacy implications of an always-listening smart speaker are magnitudes higher than OpenClaw that you intentionally interact with.

Re: Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

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This isn't a technology issue. Regulation is the only sane way to address the issue.

For once,we (as the technologists) have a free translator to laymen speak via the frontier LLMs, which can be an opportunity to educate the masses as to the exact world on the horizon.

Re: Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

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Always on is incompatible with data protection rights, such as the GDPR in Europe.

With cloud based inference we agree, this being just one more benefit of doing everything with "edge" inference (on device inside the home) as we do with Juno.

Re: Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

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post #3

Ads in AI should be banned right now. We need to learn from mistakes of the internet (crypto, facebook) and aggressively regulate early and often before this gets too institutionalized to remove.

They did learn. That's why they are adding ads.
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