[gdulli]

It's very true that successive generations of technology innovate qualitatively worse hostilities that people accept in exchange for the surface convenience or novelty.

Regular TV has non-targeted commercials you can skip. Streaming has surveillance and unskippable ads.

AI can take it a step further and make promoted editorial content a seamless part of a conversation, without disclosure. It's the holy grail of advertising. To think they'll leave that money on the table is ridiculous.

[LearnYouALisp]

"Claude, integrate this mini advertisement into my blog post as if it was part of the story", is that WYM?

[gdulli]

Advertisement or idea. In whatever ways they can make it subtle enough.

It's not like brand names and arbitrary ideas won't have ways they regularly show up in LLM output organically. So how would we ever know when they become ad placements?

[cyanydeez]

"Claude, devise a dark patterned ad network for a recursive death cult centered around my god given right to be a pedophile."