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> Look on the bright side, if they're turning to ads it likely means AGI is not on the horizon. Your job is safe! I like this quote from TFA :)
Because even if there would be AGI, they could (and would?) serve ads anyway?
I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers, even the expensive paid ones. Ad revenue isn't uniformly distributed across users, but rather heavily skewed towards the wealthiest users, exactly the users most able to purchase an ad-free experience. The users paying $20 or $200/month for premium tiers of ChatGPT are precisely the ones you don't want to exclude from generating ad revenue. Google realized this a…
> Google realized this a long time ago; there is no ad-free paid version of Google Search. well there is also no 200$/month Google Search subscription
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You have no guarantee the API models won’t be tampered with to serve ads. I suspect ads (particularly on those models) will eventually be “native”: the models themselves will be subtly biased to promote advertisers’ interests, in a way that might be hard to distinguish from a genuinely helpful reply.
you mean the API response then will contain the Ad display code?
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You have no guarantee the API models won’t be tampered with to serve ads. I suspect ads (particularly on those models) will eventually be “native”: the models themselves will be subtly biased to promote advertisers’ interests, in a way that might be hard to distinguish from a genuinely helpful reply.
you mean the API response then will contain the Ad display code?
The pragmatic side of me wonders if there is any way to shape this inevitable future now so we might see a better outcome 20 years.
> Look on the bright side, if they're turning to ads it likely means AGI is not on the horizon. Your job is safe! I like this quote from TFA :)
I stumbled upon this one as well, but I do not understand it really: Why is my job safe if Ads prove there is no AGI? Because even if there would be AGI, they could (and would?) serve ads anyway?
Perhaps the people who like that quote can elaborate why that quote makes sense and why they like it?
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Kagi is a niche product at best, with revenue literally orders of magnitude lower than Google's.
Yes, but it is still a valid counterexample to: > I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers
And anyway, companies that just want to make a really good living doing what they love are lame. /s
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> I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers, even the expensive paid ones. The counter for this is that people hate being double-billed like this.
Counter-counterpoint: people pay exorbitant amounts of money for cable TV channels that still show ads. Even the premium channels (HBO et al.) implicitly show ads in the form of product placement, which incidentally is exactly how I think chatbots will show ads. Most users won't even consciously realize they're there.
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At first it'll annoy us, but eventually we will all get used to it.
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Kagi is a niche product at best, with revenue literally orders of magnitude lower than Google's.
Yes, but it is still a valid counterexample to: > I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers