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> I think this will probably just create a strong incentive to cover important things and move away from clickbait. But clickbait is how they make money... Th
by onlyrealcuzzo 1y ago
> I think this will probably just create a strong incentive to cover important things and move away from clickbait.
But clickbait is how they make money...
That's like saying, "Oh, Apple will just have to move away from selling the iPhone and start selling hamburgers instead."
I mean, sure, but they're not going to like it, and it's going to come with a lot of lost revenue and profits.
I find myself regularly copying URLs, sending it to Gemini, and asking it to answer what I want to get out of the article.
I'm not wasting my time scrolling through a mile of website and 88,000 ads to find the answer to the headline.
- chgs 1y agoThose adverts and clickbait will infect llms soon enough, just be far harder to block.
- nitwit005 1y agoYes, unfortunately for those saying AIs will only get better, advertising is a major reason we should expect them to get worse.
- techjamie 1y agoIronically, I wonder if it would inspire a slew of downstream services that use LLMs to clean advertising out of the mainstream LLM responses.
- downsplat 1y agoWith the huge usage that LLM APIs are getting in all sorts of industries, they cannot be going away, and they're cheap. If consumer AI chatbots get enshittified, you can just grab some open source bring-your-api-keys front-end, and chat away for peanuts without ads or anything anti-user. I use https://github.com/sigoden/aichat https://github.com/sigoden/aichat , but there are GUIs too. Plus, anyone enterprising can just write a web front-end and sell it as "the ad-free AI chatbot, only $10/mo, usage limits apply".
- brettermeier 1y agoBut what if the AI output contains ads, not the UI or whatever...