[oblio]

> Google is an advertising business. Can you sell more ads with AI? I would say no.

Oh, you optimist!

It's ALWAYS about incentives. Aka money.

Companies will use AI to squeeze garbage (aka ads) in every nook and cranny of the observable universe now. Think of all the thankless tasks that required a human to do them until now.

Guess what? Now that AI can do them 100000x faster and probably 2-5x better.

Our lives are about to be flooded by a stream of -pardon my French-, adshit.

[v4dok]

I don't see how my life could me MORE cluttered with adshit than now. Literally everything is an ad space. And I have to navigate into a lot of it to actually find something useful.

[nemothekid]

This post is a culmination of a trend I'm been seeing where LLMs are made synonymous with AGI. AFAIK you can't use an LLM to drive a car.

In the context of this thread, I don't think Google could sell more ads with an LLM which is why they sat on this technology. It disrupts their current business, while being more expensive and harder to monetize (charging a subscription to consumer is worse than a monopolized ad business charging hundreds of millions to corporations).