Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

Post by ACCount37 » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 4:32 PM UTC

13pixels wrote: post #122

The explicit ads angle is only half the story. Even without paid placements, these models already have implicit recommendations baked in. We ran queries across ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity asking for product recommendations in ~30 B2B categories. The overlap between what each model recommends is surprisingly low -- around 40% agreement on the top 5 picks for any given category. And the correlation with Google sear…

Post by ajuhasz » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

tolerance wrote: post #91

The product that’s being implicitly advertised here is supposed to ship at the end of this year and there doesn’t even appear to be a real photo of the thing and if that’s an indicator of the quality of the product then I must assume that it is poor and the people responsible also apparently do not have the money to hire a capable web designer and I’m sorry if this is harsh or unnecessary but I never thought I would…

Post by allovertheworld » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

reilly3000 wrote: post #37

com2kid wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Are you okay with private and intimate conversations and moments (including of underage family members) being saved for replaying later? Typically not how these things work. Speech is processed using ASR (automatic speech recognition), and then ran through a prompt that checks for appropriate tools calls. I've been meaning to basically make this myself but I've been too lazy lately to bother. I actually want a lot…

It really is a prosthetic for minds that struggle to organize themselves.

Post by beepbooptheory » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 5:04 PM UTC

drdaeman wrote: post #57

paxys wrote: post #16

This spiel is hilarious in the context of the product this company ( https://juno-labs.com/ ) is pushing – an always on, always listening AI device that inserts itself into your and your family’s private lives. “Oh but they only run on local hardware…” Okay, but that doesn't mean every aspect of our lives needs to be recorded and analyzed by an AI. Are you okay with private and intimate conversations and moments (inc…

> Are you okay with private and intimate conversations and moments (including of underage family members) being saved for replaying later? Is this somehow fundamentally different from having memories? Because I thought about it, and decided that personally I do - with one important condition, though. I do because my memories are not as great as I would like them to be, and they decline with stress and age. If a machi…

Post by SpicyLemonZest » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

HWR_14 wrote: post #53

zmmmmm wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fundamental problem with a lot of this is that the legal system is absolute: if information exists, it is accessible. If the courts order it, nothing you can do can prevent the information being handed over, even if that means a raid of your physical premises. Unless you encrypt it in a manner resistant to any way you can be compelled to decrypt it, the only way to have privacy is for information not to exist in…

> Unless you encrypt it in a manner resistant to any way you can be compelled to decrypt it, In the US you it is not legal to be compelled to turn over a password. It's a violation of your fifth amendment rights. In the UK you can be jailed until you turn over the password.