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Re: How ChatGPT serves ads

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From things like defense/private contracts e.g. colleges pay for institutional subscriptions

The average person doesn't benefit from defense contracts ... Like ever.

The average person is slightly more female than male and has 2.1 children, but they do benefit from defense contracts since it makes up a small percentage of their salary.

Re: How ChatGPT serves ads

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Since they are served as distinct events then I would think they should be easy to block. Once the ads are injected directly into the main response is when things get interesting.

Blocking transparent ads is not a good idea. The consequence is that you will be fed opaque ads.

Re: How ChatGPT serves ads

#53

The ads are in the free tier and the new ad-supported $8/month plan. Every time this comes up there are comments assuming that ads are being injected into the normal plans, but these are for the free tier and the new Go plan which warns you that it includes ads when you sign up.

Cable TV was once ad free. So was Netflix. Companies just can’t help themselves.

Re: How ChatGPT serves ads

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The ads are only for the free and $8/month plans. They basically added an ad-supported super discount level that you can ignore if you’re paying for the normal plans.

But the fact that they've added an ad-supported tier this early into their life as a company means they're desperate for revenue. You start inserting ads when you're optimizing for profit, not when you're still growing. It took how long for Netflix to introduce an ad-supported plan?

when did netflix offer a free tier?

Re: How ChatGPT serves ads

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Since they are served as distinct events then I would think they should be easy to block. Once the ads are injected directly into the main response is when things get interesting.

> Once the ads are injected directly into the main response is when things get interesting. This would be where you post-process the LLM response with a second LLM to remove the ad..

This is already how email works in the corporate world.

A writes email with chatgpt to B.

B sees big blob of text and summarizes email with chatgpt.

Adding an LLM in the middle is just the next step.

Re: How ChatGPT serves ads

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I'd always thought that ChatGPT ads would be indistinguishable from actual content.

I think that's where they want to be. feels like everyone knows it too, that the long term expectation is basically being able to buy ad words and have LLMs lean responses towards whatever people bought.

Seems the playing field is a bit too open though, models are more fungible than the companies would hope so most of the current moat is brand based and seems like they're not ready to go all "Black Mirror" on us just yet.

Re: How ChatGPT serves ads

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> Once the ads are injected directly into the main response is when things get interesting. This would be where you post-process the LLM response with a second LLM to remove the ad..

This is already how email works in the corporate world. A writes email with chatgpt to B. B sees big blob of text and summarizes email with chatgpt. Adding an LLM in the middle is just the next step.

It's like one of those memes about the worst possible date picker, except for a communication system.

Re: How ChatGPT serves ads

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I'd always thought that ChatGPT ads would be indistinguishable from actual content.

I'm pretty sure that will be an eventual evolution of the product. The business model cant sustain itself as it is at the moment, eventually chatGPT wont be the product... we the users will be.
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