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In the beginning there will likely be bad ones that are obvious to spot like explicitly pushing products or services relating to the prompt.

Soon, I expect them to be almost invisible. The LLM will gently be nudging the user towards some products rather than others.

For example, let's say a user asks how to do X. The LLM could then respond with an itemised list of steps to accomplish X. But the steps might involve doing it in a way that would later require services from some company.

Obviously, there is a potential to do this in ways we cannot even imagine yet.

Blocking it using traditional adblocking technologies like uBO will not be possible.

Only solution I see is to run trusted LLMs locally. But it will require some sort of "open source"-like trusted training of those LLMs. I think we need a movement similar to what gave us Wikipedia and Free software in the 90s/00s.

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I refuse to use a chatbot for search!! I can just type it into a search engine and find it.