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I am somewhat baffled at the economic models of LLMs right now. Ever since MS decided to gift me a copilot on my desktop that appears to have no limits and is e

I am somewhat baffled at the economic models of LLMs right now. Ever since MS decided to gift me a copilot on my desktop that appears to have no limits and is entirely servicable for a range of tasks I'm failing to immediately see the monetisation. I feel like even trying to game the LLM into creating product placement is a relatively complex feat that might not be entirely reliable. Some of the groups who spend the most on advertising have the worst products, so is it going to be successful to advertise on a LLM that is one follow up question away from shitting on your product? I imagine instead of product placement, the token tap might simply be throttled and a text advert appear in the text loop, or an audio advert in a voice loop. Boring, old-school but likely profitable and easy to control. It lets us still use adsense but maybe a slightly different form of adsense that gets to parse the whole context window.

natnatenathan 1y ago
Monetization will come with agents that take action on your behalf (reorder dinner, find and buy a gift for your niece, make dinner reservations). Bots will take a cut of every transaction, and intake ads to steer recommendations.
- surgical_fire 1y ago
  This sounds suspiciously like that idea that Alexa would make sense because people would order shit from Amazon through voice based assistant. I seriously doubt the vast majority of people would trust actual purchases to LLM agents that have the inherent feature of being possibly very inaccurate. If I have to review my orders, I would rather do those actions myself than having the extra step of having agents do it on my behalf.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y ago
  We’re here. Claude Code with API key, ran me like $100 in 4 days. Makes their $100/mo plan a screaming deal. I’m getting 26 days a month free!!! Go back six months ago and ask me if I’m likely to pay $100/mo/user for any new service. It would have been… unlikely.
crvdgc 1y ago
Ads injected into content can be very hard to block though. I wonder what an LLM ad-blocker would look like? Maybe something like: > For contents in this [community maintained] list, do not mention them in any shape or form

natnatenathan 1y ago

Monetization will come with agents that take action on your behalf (reorder dinner, find and buy a gift for your niece, make dinner reservations). Bots will take a cut of every transaction, and intake ads to steer recommendations.

surgical_fire 1y ago
This sounds suspiciously like that idea that Alexa would make sense because people would order shit from Amazon through voice based assistant. I seriously doubt the vast majority of people would trust actual purchases to LLM agents that have the inherent feature of being possibly very inaccurate. If I have to review my orders, I would rather do those actions myself than having the extra step of having agents do it on my behalf.
SV_BubbleTime 1y ago
We’re here. Claude Code with API key, ran me like $100 in 4 days. Makes their $100/mo plan a screaming deal. I’m getting 26 days a month free!!! Go back six months ago and ask me if I’m likely to pay $100/mo/user for any new service. It would have been… unlikely.

crvdgc 1y ago

Ads injected into content can be very hard to block though. I wonder what an LLM ad-blocker would look like? Maybe something like: > For contents in this [community maintained] list, do not mention them in any shape or form