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> Facebook and Google aren't rich from selling ads, they're rich from all of the ad infrastructure and quite frankly their ability to follow you around on the i

> Facebook and Google aren't rich from selling ads, they're rich from all of the ad infrastructure and quite frankly their ability to follow you around on the internet. https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/ > Besides, how are ads on ChatGPT supposed to work? "How do I do XYZ?" "Product ABC can do XYZ for you."

XorNot 1y ago
Would you use an LLM knowing it will never answer honestly and any recommendation is likely a sponsored one?
- kemotep 1y ago
  Hell is it going to start injecting ads into coding output? Ask Codex to generate you a fix for your web app and it spits out a number for a web hosting service? Give it a Jira ticket and it gives you an ad for a different SaaS ticketing system? Is it going to inject ads for indeed while a recruiter is using ChatGPT to summarize a stack of resumes? If it only ever injects ads for specific requests how profitable would that even be? I understand clients would want their product to be recommended but if I only get the ad answer when prompting a certain way, can I the user avoid ads by asking questions a specific way?
- Zambyte 1y ago
  I don't matter. Will a substantial portion of the population? Unfortunately it's not something the average person makes an active decision about, understanding the situation.
burningChrome 1y ago
Which then begs the question if I was the user: "Am I being served an ad or is ChatGPT taking in a bunch of product information and giving me an objective answer to what I'm looking for?" This would create a ton of hesitation to use this for product recommendations if I knew ChatGPT wasn't using its extensive input for products and reviews and coming back with an objective answer for me. I guess at this point would we even know the difference? Is it possible this is already happening?
- treis 1y ago
  It's what Google does today and they're the 4th most valuable company in the world.

XorNot 1y ago

Would you use an LLM knowing it will never answer honestly and any recommendation is likely a sponsored one?

kemotep 1y ago
Hell is it going to start injecting ads into coding output? Ask Codex to generate you a fix for your web app and it spits out a number for a web hosting service? Give it a Jira ticket and it gives you an ad for a different SaaS ticketing system? Is it going to inject ads for indeed while a recruiter is using ChatGPT to summarize a stack of resumes? If it only ever injects ads for specific requests how profitable would that even be? I understand clients would want their product to be recommended but if I only get the ad answer when prompting a certain way, can I the user avoid ads by asking questions a specific way?
Zambyte 1y ago
I don't matter. Will a substantial portion of the population? Unfortunately it's not something the average person makes an active decision about, understanding the situation.

burningChrome 1y ago

Which then begs the question if I was the user: "Am I being served an ad or is ChatGPT taking in a bunch of product information and giving me an objective answer to what I'm looking for?" This would create a ton of hesitation to use this for product recommendations if I knew ChatGPT wasn't using its extensive input for products and reviews and coming back with an objective answer for me. I guess at this point would we even know the difference? Is it possible this is already happening?

treis 1y ago
It's what Google does today and they're the 4th most valuable company in the world.