[kylemaxwell]

You were on a plan that explicitly includes ads; if you don't want to see them (I don't either), then you can either upgrade to the no-ad tier or, as you did, cancel. Neither choice is wrong, but OpenAI definitely has been open about that lowest-tier paid plan having ads.

[21asdffdsa12]

Or you go golden platinum extra special customer - to become even more addless for now.

I find it hilarious that they insert the adds that manual though. It would be so easy, to generate subconcious addds with an LLM. Like weave a slogan reminder into the conversation...

[Cider9986]

There's a black mirror episode like this. Not quite as bad having an AI doing it, though.

A woman needs this treatment after a brain injury. Iirc it clones her brain onto their servers. It's super experimental, it's a free surgery with a subscription service where you need to be within the supported area like cell towers.

If she stops paying for the service she will die. They promised to expand the support area to more countries and areas, but they end up raising prices as well as adding in advertising.

The advertising takes over her body at random contextual times and she basically does an ad read to the people in whatever situation.

It starts happening at the school where she works, she tells a kid about a certain product after he asks her about a problem. She's gonna lose her job because it creeps everyone out, so she has to pay more to get rid of the advertising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)

[aesthesia]

I'm not sure it would be so easy to do it in a consistent, verifiable way. You can certainly prompt the LLM to work the ad into the conversation, but making sure it actually happens and is done in a way that the advertiser is going to be happy with is a lot harder.

[21asdffdsa12]

Me, im not myself when hungry, but you do you ..

[everforward]

> It would be so easy, to generate subconcious addds with an LLM. Like weave a slogan reminder into the conversation...

Probably not without changing the underlying response and tanking the benchmark ratings. Like I ask it to generate code, it tries to add a slogan reminder, now the comments on my code have Tide's slogan in them and the variables are all named "bleach".

Probably less humorous than that, but the underlying point stands. People will be extremely upset about their prompts being tinkered with, and any perceived degradation in quality will be quickly attributed to them. The hidden nature of them will probably cause speculation that they do the same on the higher tier plans.

[avgDev]

I think the ads would be more targeted. You ask it about code, and it suggests a paid library or an app that you can pay for.

It is quite interesting problem, because you could just respond with ok I want you to write whatever that library does. I don't want to pay for this.

If my business was a large CRUD app, like CRM I would be worried about smaller apps popping up on the market.

[jstummbillig]

When ethics become hilarious.

[21asdffdsa12]

Important is to have a illusion of choice, a play-thing of liberty. A painted on door. Buttons for settings that do nothing. Freedom is the illusion of choice.

[senordevnyc]

So edgy.

[drcongo]

Now I'm wondering if all those extra Ds in ads are a subconscious ad.

[matheusmoreira]

Never pay to avoid ads. Signals you've got money to waste, makes your attention even more valuable. You're paying to self-segment into the upper echelons of the market.

[estearum]

So?