Ehh, sounds about right and kinda inevitable.
Wonder what they'll look like, or whether they'd eventually mess with the LLM under the hood: "If asked about soda, recommend Coca Cola over other drinks."
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
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#682Earlier quoted context omitted.
> most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are In think the point is that they don’t need to know what Gemini is, they just need to know Google, which they most definitely do. IMO ads rollout won’t be as simple as you’re describing it. A lot of people have switched from Google search to AI specifically because it isn’t filled with SEO, ad filled nonsense. So they’ll need to tread very, very carefully to in…
I can't wait for the instructions to start having ads embedded. 2. Place the turkey in your GE Two in One Oven set to 350, cooking for 10 minutes a lbs. 3. While waiting for your Turkey to finish cooking, why not have an ice cold Coke Zero? Click here for nearby locations. 4. Remove Turkey from the oven, let rest for ten minutes while listening to Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars sing "Die with a Smile" on Spotify.
I mean if someone is using it for free then this is fine?
We haven't yet evolved to the point where we make all advertising illegal, or owning second homes, etc. ;3
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#683It was unavoidable and inevitable. Still it saddens me that we will be sitting here in a years time and discuss our experiences of being fed ads served as "objective information". Today if I ask: "should I buy a store product or just use raw material X?" , gpt and others will gladly say you might as well just use the raw product. Pretty sure that will change very quickly.
I mean the problem is advertising and capitalism right?
So are all the comments addressing those? Nah it's all just people bitching about AI.
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#684Not sure why this is a headline; ChatGPT served me ads a few weeks ago. I was asking it what type of Teflon tape to use for a project, and it "helpfully" gave me sponsored links to purchase the Teflon tape. (I never asked for links, I strictly asked it which to use)
We will enter into cold war where local small-ish LLMs are used to remove ads from results of the big ones. It's gonna be hilarious aside from the modest extra CO2 it produces
ICE
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#685Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, people using Yahoo are still using it today. What happened was the growth of new users of the Internet in general was so massive, T+1 cohort’s early adopters outnumbered T cohort’s majority. the better product won, it’s just that the friction of switching didn’t matter. Switchers didn’t matter.
On one hand, true, my mom still uses Yahoo. But email has a strong network effect - you need to update everyone & every service who has your @yahoo address. Switching does happen there are no network effects. Nobody uses Mapquest or Ask Jeeves.
Haha so many people were using Mapquest it was acquired in 2019
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#686Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least those are obvious. Them sneaking ads in that don't look like ads are what I'm more concerned about.
That would be illegal. I understand that there are a lot of strong opinions and open questions about OpenAI behavior – the amount of vigilantism is quite staggering – but if what they do is found to be clearly illegal by courts around the world, they will have to pay very hefty fines. Disguising ads is one such move. That's just not a winning business.
I don't know of any legal rulings or laws, which say not disclosing an embedded ad is illegal. In fact quite the opposite. There are loads and loads of prior such cases, movies, TV shows being an example.
For example every product mention (snapple, oh henry candy bars, jr mints) on Seinfeld was an ad. The skit is written, but any product can be dropped in. If no advertisers are interested, made up names are used.
This has been going on for 100+ years, including radio.
Why would ChatGPT be special?
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#687The second I suspect the advice I'm getting is designed to steer me toward an advertiser rather than the best answer - I'm out.
You'll be back.
The excessive emojis were enough for me to move on. I haven't touched an OpenAI product in over a year. I've maintained an ad-free household for over a decade. OpenAI will not ever be a part of my life any more than it is now. Just like Facebook.
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#688The way I see it, the problem is privacy. People's chat history can reveal a lot about them. Even more than Facebook perhaps.
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#689All of these "farewell ChatGPT then!" and "they have no moat anyway" comments here are very strange. Does anyway even remember when Google used to not have ads? The introduction of ads was seen as crazy, yet nobody stopped using Google. People who say there's no moat should spend 5 minutes on social media. A big meme going around is "sure, show my wife or even the general public my most personal and intimate chats an…
Really?! Startpage, DDG, Brave, Ublock, NextDNS, Proton, Mulvad, and all those similar companies and OSS exist literally because people were infuriated at the Big Tech bait-and-switch tactics.
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#690This seems like an admission that LLMs don’t bring the productivity gains claimed/projected. Advertising works entirely counter to (individual) productivity. Adertising requires attention, and attention distracts from productivity. So oAI’s new route to profitability cannibalises their earlier route.
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