So, we need a lightweight local LLM, that is tuned to remove ads from online LLM results.
How ChatGPT serves ads
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I've had two people reach out to me asking about one of my services. They both said ChatGPT recommended it to them. My service does kind of exist. It's a small tool I created for a client while retaining full rights to the tool. So I created (vibe coded) a site around it, making it look like an established service. Even ran google ads for it for a while. The service still doesn't show up on google with relevant searc…
> Did vibe coding the business page inject it into ChatGPT's training data? No, at least not directly. Inference does not train models. It is possible that OpenAI may separately collect the chat data, clean it, and feed it back into the model for future iterations. Or they could have extracted URLs for future indexing. More likely though, I suspect, is your site just managed to be indexed naturally, and LLMs are very…
Interesting. Maybe someone could run bot farms that ask variants of the same question and subtly nudge the model by replying reasons why the model's recommended service A is inferior to service B. Or other forms of adversarial question answers sessions.
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What possible reason could they have to not always run both? It would make zero sense to leave that money on the table
It's simpler to do one thing than to do two. You make a choice and you do that. Could they be doing opaque ads right now and we wouldn't know? It's possible, that will probably eventually come to light and it might have legal consequences, but sure it's possible. But it's not a given, and your logic of "it would make zero sense to leave money on the table" is certainly not a QED, it's absolute reductionism.
It's even simpler to do zero things than to do one thing, so we should expect them not to introduce any ads, right?
"Simplicity" isn't a relevant factor.
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Its like fussion power, except there we half the funding every year instead of doubling it
Fusion power is proven to be possible. AGI is not.
There is (eventually) no more profit to be made on energy when energy becomes virtually limitless.
There is (still) a lot of profit to be made on half-baked semi-AGI prospects.
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#225They must be desperate to try to push ads down to people. I am living a mostly ad-free life, e. g. ublock origin and what not, so using something like AdChatGPT would not make any sense. One can sense how the money-flow leads them to try to design a system people depend on - and then they cram down ads into those people. Very unethical.
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Excellent ChatGPT result.
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#227Less 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?
Or, Sam did not speak the truth back then, and always had ads in his mind. I think that was the strategy from the get go.
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#228These 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.
The model already advertises because they where trained on massive data’s that refers big brands. Ask for suggestions for a new pair of shoes. What brand do you think it will suggest Nike, Adidas or some random small one?
I think if you ask something generic like “shoes”, this could be true.
When I’ve worked with Claude on finding brands for fashion (e.g. here’s a small watchmaker I like, what are similar options?) it does research and picks great options. Some are big, others are small producers.
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> This was either a) a plain lie b) they're actually at their last resort. That's thinking like a normal honest human :-) My point is that it was likely not a statement about reality (true or false) at all, but rather a phrase designed to elicit some response in the listener, such as the idea: 'Sam Altman isn't the kind of CEO who would put ads in his products unless he really had to'. He's not describing how things…
I agree with your point. Mine was about the word doublespeak for this, which I think it's not - it's a lie in effect, but I think it is something like what you say, for which I don't know a term of. A bunch of sentences that are said in a complete disregard for truths and untruths; instead they are supposed to get you to believe something. This also kinda fits the profile of Altman that I'm getting from what I have s…
Ah, got it. Maybe 'gaslighting' cuts more to the point?
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Adds should be a tabu word and business model. It takes people's attention, makes people fat and anxious and generally makes the world a worse place. Everybody using adds as a part of their business model should feel bad. As an extention of this there is no moral issues with using add blockers, despite what the businesses living of adds try to tell you.
I agree. Also, Linkedin and CV's shouldn't exist. Self-promotion is gauche.
I don't think this is the slam dunk you think this is. LinkedIn's existence is, in fact, a net negative for the human race.