[MisterBiggs]

The incentive to sell something completely undermines the ability to give you the best information. Floating sponsored links to the top is one thing but telling an AI this is the link the user should click is going to ruin the whole thing.

[contagiousflow]

Just wait until we have AI agents finding optimizing for click through rates.

[nicce]

It is already happening outside of LLMs. It is just so sophisticated that we don't notice it.

Actually, you can already notice it in many news sites. The either provide different titles for different userbases/ or change it globally few times for everyone and then they settle for the title which got the most clicks. I am confident that the title content is not managed by the human anymore. Just reviewed.

[euroderf]

That will free up the best technical minds of our generation to apply themselves to some _other_ socially useless application.

[shwouchk]

we have that. it’s called ads