[lupusreal]

> Google, Facebook and TikTok make $383bn in ad revenue between them (2023). The whole adtech industry is worth $1 trillion a year. But four words could wipe this revenue out: “AI, no ads please.”

Burn, baby, burn! AI exterminating the advertising industry would probably be its greatest possible contribution to humanity.

It sounds too good to be true though.

[sandspar]

This is like saying that we should make mosquitoes go extinct. It looks like a good idea at first. But there's so many of them that it'll likely have massive unintended consequences.