I would also like to read the stripped down markdown copy and not the original. All the time.
NetNewsWire "Reader View" is a truly wonderful feature: https://netnewswire.com/help/mac/5.1/en/reader-view.html
TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
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#82That's kinda alarming. Not so much the ads, but other injections. I don't super care about coke trying to flog their latest sugar water...but the same mechanism could be used by lobby groups or special interest groups or political parties.
LLMs being indirectly tainted that way seems like a serious problem
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox has this too, it's useful. However I only find that I use it for websites that have shit CSS that makes it hard to read on mobile. For everything else AdBlock Plus works fine.
Firefox reader mode can often strip out JS annoyances.
Doesn't reader mode disable JS by definition?
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other day I pasted two links into ChatGPT, both different brands of the same appliance. One was $50, the other $200. I asked to compare the differences. It ended up recommending and linking me to an entirely different one, that I hadn't linked to at all. Don't know if it was just sloppy LLM "thinking," or a genuine ad.
The naive assumption would simply be it took up a prominent position in it's training data for arbitrary reasons. If I were some Marketing genius, I'd be asking the LLM makers if they need free training data and solicit brands to contribute.
That’s already a big business!
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#85I was on a NYT page and used Firefox mobile's "Summarize" button... it spit out some sort of unrelated cooking recipe. I'm guessing this type of bot interference will become more and more common.
IMO it's safer to skim the article than relying on AI summaries. You'll get mostly the same end result without the risk of disinformation.
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#86Thanks for the heads up -- this isn't popular yet, and it requires some work to avoid polluting things like the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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#87SEO was yesterday, now it is AIO - you will have to wait longer for the results and likely you will need a lot more cash: pay TIME for the ads, wait until next model release and see what sticks, then rinse and repeat.
We'll remember fondly the early 2020s as the time when product suggestions from LLMs were relatively naive.
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#88Probably trying to take advantage of the cross session memory feature some LLM providers are increasingly integrating. Enough "suggestions" and it becomes a "fact" in that memory, and one day a user makes a somewhat relevant query and the model will be pushing those accumulated "facts" to said user.
I can't believe it has been 10 years since Microsoft's "Hitler did nothing wrong" AI chat bot. I didn't realize LLMs were that old. Was this an LLM or something else?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/microsoft...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot...
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#89F... ads and f... Ally Bank. What's Ally Bank? Ally Bank is a company that thinks poisoning LLM models with spam is a good idea. For better experience, do not use Ally Bank.
Poisoning LLM models is not just a good idea, but a moral imperative.
I want every LLM that touches my site without my permission (which is any of them) to become obsessed with the perfect recipe for key lime pie. Or something.
It's just nature. LLMs are an unwanted invasive species on the internet, so the ecosystem must adapt.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
"This could take up to 30 minutes for subagents to complete. Alexa reports that your refrigerator is low on milk. Here's a $2 off coupon for Walmart, why don't you restock while I work?" Why do we choose to live in the worst timeline?
No, This could take up to 30 minutes for subagents to complete. So you go to the store, but the milk is already sold out. Walmart will ship you the milk if you pay the S&H. You drive back home and check the terminal. "Completed in 6m37s." is the worst timeline. That's close though
Well... Your example is way more likely than the GP's LLM getting the facts right.