How long until "Drink More Ovaltine" starts showing up in the comments of your Codex code?
Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round, the jar is round. They should call it Round tine.
That’s gold, Gary. Gold!
OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
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Welcome to late stage capitalism.
I struggle to understand what OpenAI would look like in a counter factual.
Like Anthropic? Due to Altman being a lying psychopath, most of the talent left OpenAI, which is now fighting for its life -- but now they can't claim to have moral high ground or the best researchers anymore; profitability's the only way out remaining to them.
Who knows? It could have always ended up this way anyway. But Altman had a pretty big role in summoning his own competition.
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#134FWIW, I've gone to ChatGPT multiple times with a specific intent to buy, like "hey I need a thing like X or Y, but with quality Z too" and sometimes it just hallucinates things that appear never to have existed, other times it comes up with real items, but the links it gives me to buy them lead nowhere, so I end up just googling the name of it and buying it that way (examples: computer monitor, power bar, USB charge…
Use Deep Research and try to be as specific as you can with the attributes of said product. I’ve had a few successes this way.
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Easy they lied to the public not investors and have more money than you. Local llm or nothing at all.
> Local llm or nothing at all. I'm not as familiar with LLMs as I am media models, but there can't seriously be local contenders for beating Opus, GPT-5, etc. Right? At home hardware isn't good enough. Nobody "far enough behind" that isn't scared to release their model as open weights actually has a competitive model within 70% of the lead models. Now that the Chinese are catching up and even pulling ahead (eg. in vi…
GLM and Kimi are still releasing weights for near-SOTA models. DeepSeek, Qwen and arguably MiniMax are the ones that are perhaps falling behind.
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#136FWIW, I've gone to ChatGPT multiple times with a specific intent to buy, like "hey I need a thing like X or Y, but with quality Z too" and sometimes it just hallucinates things that appear never to have existed, other times it comes up with real items, but the links it gives me to buy them lead nowhere, so I end up just googling the name of it and buying it that way (examples: computer monitor, power bar, USB charge…
If it can't even point you to a real product on an existing website, why do you trust it for any other information..?
Re: OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
#137FWIW, I've gone to ChatGPT multiple times with a specific intent to buy, like "hey I need a thing like X or Y, but with quality Z too" and sometimes it just hallucinates things that appear never to have existed, other times it comes up with real items, but the links it gives me to buy them lead nowhere, so I end up just googling the name of it and buying it that way (examples: computer monitor, power bar, USB charge…
Same experience, I thought using chatGPT to find some fairly specific things to buy would be a slam dunk, but it couldn’t provide links half the time and also failed to hold to criteria like shipping region etc. I would tell it to give direct links and it would mostly just say ”go on Amazon and search for X”. There’s a special type of frustration when an LLM is close to being useful but just… isn’t.
I've had much more luck with perplexity. Still not perfect but at least works better.
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It all seems a bit overly complicated to me. TikTok pretty much went straight to a self-serve platform and basically had immediate success. I would think if OpenAI did something similar there would be no shortage of advertisers wanting to spend money.
on tiktok you are not paying for ad inventory, which on that platform sucks, you're paying $10m+ to tip the scales in the algorithm towards organic content about your brand
How much established truth, official and legal is that?
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#140The most surprising thing to me is that they're partnering with third parties to do this. Less secure, lower margins (more middlemen taking fees), harder to access, more likely to not work properly. I would expect all the meta execs they've hired to know better so maybe I'm missing something...
They're road mapping. Trying things out. Their entire current ad eco-system may change internally in a week.