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by direwolf20 148 days ago
This is partly because Google is past the enshittification hump and ChatGPT is just starting to climb up it - they just announced ads.
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This. And the wonderful thing about LLMs is that they can be trained to bend responses in specific directions, say toward using Oracle Cloud solutions. There's fertile ground for commercial value extraction that goes far beyond ads. Think of it as product placement on steroid.
You don't even need training — you can add steering vectors in the middle of the otherwise-unmodified computation. Remember Golden Gate Claude?
> they just announced ads

wondering how is it going to work when they "search the web" to get the information, are they essentially going to take ad revenue away from the source website?

Not to be a dick, but enshittification is not a hump you get past, it's a constant climb until the product is abandoned. Did you just mean growing pains?