[dannywarner]

Something not mentioned here is advertising and ad tech. With traditional search advertising going away, psyads - psychologically manipulative advertising that changes answers and text generations to convince people to buy and do things - will become the new nightmare.

In the same way language models can mimic any character ("write a poem in the style of Jar Jar Binks") they can also mimic voice and tone in a way designed to appeal - and sell to - an individual based on their personal data and history.

ChatGPT and its clones require login and often credit card and phone number, they collect your data, and they feed everything you do back to language models for training. I'm only aware of one that has a privacy policy that would prevent this.

Caveat Scrutator

[butler14]

what makes you think search advertising will go away?

e.g. that conversational or generative AI will replace, rather than augment, traditional web search?

[dannywarner]

A conversational interface does not have room for a page of ads. Google results are an entire page of ads for most keywords with commercial intent now. In a chat interface on mobile there is nowhere for them to go.

My opinion that conversational interfaces like ChatGPT will replace a list of links is speculative but not particularly controversial at this point.

[nickthegreek]

It has room for ads before, during and after giving answers. Inline, popups, they could literally be everywhere and I am sure they will be there before the year is up.

[sfmike]

exactly chat gpt and the like will mean the ads are given to you from someone/thing with rapport who is intrinsically helping you so they will convert really well. Great for advertisers although bad if the ads are not exactly in good nature.