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When ads were introduced into Google, it objectively made the search product worse. You no longer saw what they thought would be the most relevant result. You l
by pseudosavant 9mo ago
When ads were introduced into Google, it objectively made the search product worse. You no longer saw what they thought would be the most relevant result. You literally saw Google's most profitable (it is an auction) result.
If we apply that kind of thinking to chat LLMs, it means instead of getting the most relevant tokens, you'll be shown the most profitable tokens. Maybe the most relevant tokens will be below the fold (like unpaid search results) now.
- pseudosavant 9mo agoJust wait for the image generators that have paid product placement like TV and movies do now. You ask for an edit of a photo and it changes an ad in the background to a different company. This idea seems awful, and also so obvious that it is going to happen.
- satvikpendem 9mo agoGoing to? It happened 20 years ago already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Force_is_with_Cristal_Beer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Force_is_with_Cristal_Beer
- amitav1 9mo ago> "it objectively made the search product worse" I would disagree, because without the advertising there probably would be no Google.
- vinyl7 9mo agoArguably Google could go the way of AOL and no one would notice
- satvikpendem 9mo agoThis is probably the funniest comment I've seen this week. Yes, I'm sure all 3 billion users of Google products wouldn't notice.