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by gordonhart 309 days ago
Browsing "the web" has been painful for years thanks to SEO and ads. Most people already spend their time in walled gardens, selectively jumping out to specific linked sites. Does AI fundamentally change this, or is it just a better front-end for the search engine?
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0_____0 309 days ago
What makes you think ads and the equivalent to SEO aren't coming for the LLM products? These companies are going to have to turn a profit eventually...
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sixtyj 309 days ago
It is just a question of time when we would need AdBlock for LLM…
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0_____0 308 days ago
I've been very reluctant to enter any queries into any LLM that might let on more than I'm willing to make public. I think about the people who poured their romantic energy into LLMs - beyond how dystopian that is on its face, the LLM vendors now have the ability to ad-target that person to within an inch of their life, and every incentive to exploit this to the max they can.
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sixtyj 308 days ago
Yup. Try ask any LLM after few queries how it sees you :)

A lot of people will be surprised by how precise their ad feed will be. Gold mine.

There is very thin red line when it just works and when it starts to be creepy.

Remember Google. Don’t do evil. Kek. Now, it is Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg - they have no empathy…

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