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Re: ChatGPT Search

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post #46

Hah, OpenAI is becoming an ads business too. So much for something new, same old funding model for every centralized platform on the web.

If they are making billions from subscriptions, why on earth would they want to switch to an ads business?

Might have something to do with the fact that they're also still losing billions operating their services at a loss!

Re: ChatGPT Search

#62
post #55

https://chatgpt.com/?hints=search (handy link to it)

That link just takes me to what looks like a normal chatgpt prompt. (I tried asking it the same things they showed in the article and I just get generic AI answers, not web search results.)

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Re: ChatGPT Search

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post #46

Hah, OpenAI is becoming an ads business too. So much for something new, same old funding model for every centralized platform on the web.

If they are making billions from subscriptions, why on earth would they want to switch to an ads business?

Making billions but spending trillions for no moat (GPUs and models aren't moats) means that the only moat they have are users. Users aren't paying enough to offset costs, the only way to get value from non-subscription users for their scale is through ads.

Re: ChatGPT Search

#64
Makes me question why Google never bothered to create something like search sessions which could be enriched with comments/notes and would be located in a sidebar just like the chats in ChatGPT/Claude/Mistral are.

They really had the potential to do something interesting, but were just focused on their ad metrics with the "good enough" search box. What have they been doing all the time?

Re: ChatGPT Search

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post #46

Hah, OpenAI is becoming an ads business too. So much for something new, same old funding model for every centralized platform on the web.

If they are making billions from subscriptions, why on earth would they want to switch to an ads business?

Slightly more accurate: they're raising billions making pennies.

Re: ChatGPT Search

#68
post #2

AKA Bing Search in ChatGPT. So it is not it's own search engine and is still using Bing for its results just like the rest of them.

No, it's using the Bing index. The generated responses are OpenAI

Many search engines use the Bing index but return different results

Re: ChatGPT Search

#70
post #40

LLMs have the chance to cannibalize the web and become the primary interface for knowledge. But if websites remain the final destination, it’s good for content creators. The only other way to kill the web without killing LLMs in the process would be to create a way for people to upload structured public content directly into an LLM’s training. That would delay public content into release batches unless training can b…

“Way to put public content directly into an LLM training” - sounds like Chatgpt
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