I think we all knew this was coming but I thought they'd wait a few more months.
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#42>In the coming weeks, we’re also planning to start testing ads in the U.S. for the free and Go tiers
They didn’t even start with free, already a paid subscription included.
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#43I'm kind of surprised this didn't happen sooner.
From an ethical standpoint, I think it's .. murky. Not ads themselves, but because the AI is, at least partially, likely trained on data scraped from the web, which is then more or less regurgitated (in a personalized way) and then presented with ads that do not pay the original content creators. So it's kind of like, lets consume what other people created, repackage it, and then profit off of it.
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#44If you had told me in 2011, when I first started discussing artificial intelligence, that in 2026 a trillion dollar company would earnestly publish the statement “Our mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity; our pursuit of advertising is always in support of that mission”, I would have tossed my laptop into the sea and taken up farming instead.
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#45>In the coming weeks, we’re also planning to start testing ads in the U.S. for the free and Go tiers They didn’t even start with free, already a paid subscription included.
Including advertising in a paid product should be punishable by public flogging.
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#46Yup. Enshittification, right on track.
(I continue to be shocked how many people—who should know better—are in denial that the entire "industry" of Generative AI is completely and utterly unsustainable and furthermore on a level of unsustainability we've never before seen in the history of computer technology.)
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#47I like the way they casually mention AGI as if they did anything towards this undefined moving goal post. Congrats to their marketing department!
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#48That's 1/3rd the screen real estate. Can we have longer phones please.
At least put the ads in a consistent location so I can cover it with masking tape
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#49I think Google has already shown that in the long run, people accept ads and prefer them to paying a subscription fee. If that weren’t true, then YouTube Premium would have double-digit % of youtube users and Kagi Search would be huge.
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#50Can't wait for it to start telling people that Abraham Lincoln's favourite game was raid shadow legends.
You didn't know?
Theodore Roosevelt would own you at Golden Eye.