[rhubarbtree]

We’re in a golden period where AI results are ad-free.

One thing I’ve been doing is querying and storing results. For example, “what are the best books on X topic” for every topic I can possibly think that I may want to read about in the future.

I’ve found the results to be amazing if you give a sufficiently detailed prompt. I have enough reading to see me through to exit.

[Larrikin]

I've already started getting results infiltrated by SEO but for AI. Deep research did return seemingly a top book when I was looking into Ansible. I independently verified it with my own searching in a few different places.

But the other recommendations seemed like crap and when I followed the sources they seemed like AI generated garbage for AI that I couldn't find doing my normal searching.

[HSO]

By the time this „golden“ ad free time is over in 1-2 years you should be able to run your own custom model locally

[dataexec]

I hope so but we could also be staying in an eternal state of FOMO as the proprietary models keep getting marginally (or a lot) better.

[the_other]

How are they better if they spam the user with ads?

[mcny]

One possibility is that if they can manage to lower interest rates back to zero ish, we might see a hiring frenzy in machine learning/llm/genai, starving upstarts and free software of talent, slowing progress in custom local models? Or is this too pessimistic/ "out there" of a take that requires the stars to align just right?

[delfinom]

Interest rates at zero and there won't be any clients for these upstarts as people will be in bread lines from their worthless money.

[bloomca]

Some models will still trickle down; hell, better/cheaper hardware should enable to run hefty models available today, and they seem to be already okay-ish with such queries.

[stevage]

Would you consider sharing these somewhere?

[pickledoyster]

The training data is full ads. For books, you have publisher-influenced rankings, SEO slop and promotional social media posts. It's GIGO, and has been that way from the start.