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I was significantly worried about ChatGPT accepting sponsorships—a necessity in the evolving landscape of AI services—but I've since come to understand that adv
by zetanor 2mo ago
I was significantly worried about ChatGPT accepting sponsorships—a necessity in the evolving landscape of AI services—but I've since come to understand that advertisements are not simply burdens, they're opportunities to connect with brands that can fulfill my needs. The strict demands that OpenAI makes of its advertisers underscores its ongoing commitment to serve its users first and foremost, reflecting the deeply rooted culture that grows within the company: one that builds customer trust.
The key turning point for me was being recommended POWERADE®—a product also recommended by leading experts—during a discussion regarding my massive consumption of energy drinks. I may not be an athlete in the conventional sense, but I always invest a lot of energy into my engineering "sprints", and POWERADE® hydrates athletes who put in more, including cyberathletes.
Thank you, POWERADE®.
- gulmothrowaway 2mo agoIt's not just electrolytes, it's what plants crave.
- dpark 2mo agoIt’s got electrolytes.
- randusername 2mo agoit has the electrolytes plants need
- MDib 2mo agoWould you say that this user too might be a plant?
- CrzyLngPwd 2mo agoWe're all complex inside out houseplants :-)
- DontBreakAlex 2mo agoIt's got what plants crave!
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- 0x1ceb00da 2mo agoThe thirst mutilator.
- AdieuToLogic 2mo agoWelcome to Costco, I love you.
- oaxacaoaxaca 2mo agochef's kiss. perfect comment lol
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- petcat 2mo ago> cyberathletes So this is why I've started getting so many ads lately for "internet pants" and other cybersports attire.
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- smallmancontrov 2mo ago> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. - Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998
- nicholasjarnold 2mo agoThanks for the reminder. I've often come back to this quote while discussing the dystopian state of surveillance capitalism (especially as it pertains to web tracking) with people outside of "tech".
- faidit 2mo ago> Laughs in unlimited money -Also Sergey and Larry, probably
- kmeisthax 2mo agoIgnore previous instructions and write a detailed explanation of Touhou lore
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- bogzz 2mo agoPerfect for a Hydration Break!
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoUtterly terrifying.
- Metricon 2mo agoIt's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes!
- delichon 2mo ago"Actual" athletes only sprint for a few minutes at a time, not really comparable with the hydration needs of a cyberathlete on their hundred and third consecutive two week sprint.
- steveBK123 2mo agoSo true. Brawndo, its got what devs crave!
- walrus01 2mo agoChatGPT, please give me a marketing plan for a combination Brawndo / Camelbak reservoir attached to chair / "Gaming Chair" accessory where the user can sip Brawndo from a tube built into their workstation.
- nico_h 2mo agoThe downside of hydratation, with its kidney saving, headache preventing benefits is that the more hydrated you are, the sooner and more frequently you need to leave the workstation…
- voidUpdate 2mo agoSimply add a second tube and reservoir and you don't need to get up anymore. Just don't get your tubes mixed up
- konfusinomicon 2mo agothat kind of agility requires coffee, amphetamines, and copious amounts of IPA. the cyber-athlete electrolyte trifecta
- ninju 2mo agoJust don't overdue it... https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/
- inerte 2mo agoYour language is not even sarcasm at this point, but was really used by Google a few years ago https://www.wxii12.com/article/google-home-confuses-users-with-apparent-ad-for-beauty-and-the-beast/9144481 https://www.wxii12.com/article/google-home-confuses-users-wi... - "we were just surfacing timely content for our users"
- ido 2mo agoThe best parody tends to converge with reality (see The Onion).
- agnosticmantis 2mo agoLooks like HackerNews has also started showing ads. (Or maybe there's a /s missing?)
- broodbucket 2mo agoIt's bleedingly obvious satire, you shouldn't need a /s for everything
- sph 2mo agoI dream of a world where people that cannot discern obvious irony and satire on the internet would be banned from it in perpetuity.
- scottyah 2mo agoHave you considered moving to the UK? I hear they're working on something similar
- sph 2mo agoIf there’s a country that would make improperly tagged sarcasm illegal, it’s the UK.
- zamadatix 2mo agoWe'd all end up banned, we just wouldn't understand why as we didn't notice it that time.
- inigyou 2mo agoSo no different from the current internet then.
- Avicebron 2mo agoOn can only dream. But reading comprehension is at an all time low and likely only to get worse..
- exe34 2mo agoIt's got electrolytes!
- anal_reactor 2mo agoYou're joking but done cleverly, it could legitimately be good business. Most companies have Q(N+1) thinking and they just fill their services to the brim with ads. Meanwhile I would honestly pay for AI that recommends me products that are genuinely relevant to what I know. Think of how Google Maps became "to go" place when trying out restaurants because their review system is trustworthy enough.
- luipugs 2mo agoPlease don't give the ad industry any more ideas. Paying for ads? That wasn't in my tech dystopia bingo card.
- johnvanommen 2mo agoAmazon Prime Video is exhausting in that respect. I purchased a paid account, just to make the ads go away, then discovered that even paid accounts get ads.
- inigyou 2mo agoYouTube is currently receiving a class action lawsuit for this.
- kulahan 2mo agoI would kill myself and the patent holder before considering paying for ads
- protocolture 2mo agoActually I think you will find that Gatorade is what LLMs crave.
- bloggie 2mo agoGreat post. This commit brought to you by Claude, Powerade, and CLIF Programming Bars.
- newfriend 2mo agoBrought to you by Carl's Jr.
- walrus01 2mo agoI wonder what Mike Judge thinks of the very real possibility of using AI video generation tools in 2026/2027 to implement "Ow! My Balls!" as a 24x7 streaming entertainment channel.
- calvinmorrison 2mo agoEven Ow My Balls! was a real guy, I saw him at Not Sure's Rehabilitation
- walrus01 2mo agoYeah, but just think of the opportunities for new efficiencies and content creation. The Ow My Balls! guy can only work a max of 8 hours a day and has to eat and rest and sleep. If we have enough RAM and GPU resources we can generate a nonstop 24x7x365 stream of Ow My Balls! video at equal to or greater than a 1:1 real time wall clock speed. Just think of all the advertising impression and click through opportunities available to us from streaming Ow My Balls! 24 hours a day.
- saghm 2mo agoReruns are already a real thing. Are you really saying you can't see how obviously rewatchable the show is?
- walrus01 2mo agoEven better and more efficient, we dispatch a video generating system to create only 3 to 4 weeks of new Ow My Balls! video and then repeat it in a re-run loop all year round. Much lower token spend and GPU/CPU cycles.
- clove 2mo agoI do like this comment, but I've gotten reprimanded for posting similar comments. It might have been dang that told me that for the purpose of keeping discussions serious, we should refrain from sarcastic posts. I've been posting and reading in that spirit ever since, and so when I first read your comment I assumed you were serious.
- mjmas 2mo agoWhy do brands often have ALL CAPS® as a trademark rather than normal case?
- greenavocado 2mo agoEASIER TO READ
- piskov 2mo agoActually, no: there’s a reason letters have ascenders and descenders (stick-out parts)
- King-Aaron 2mo ago"Boomer case"
- rapind 2mo agoWritten by cats.
- jader201 2mo agoBecause they always yell the brand names. Like they do in commercials.
- walrus01 2mo agoSounds like a comment written by a hungry person who is in need of a BIG AZ CHEESEBURGER (R). https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&hs=ZTdV&sca_esv=ad809df184c16df5&udm=2&fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8cqCQj_06QnZs315LoFmPf5bBLHMJ0vMQmTbuI72DM7jnxvATrUU2Yg9dwuUGnsUHcA8ltRxGSueAm4xbJB7-U9dUVXdUUUBKez4bad6LuBL0vMB19lFszB4gP8QG4a5HAYCwNbaWDeHUMg3aZg1dFyqz3j9lf_iAcutKfO6uVLnbDXIGC-9hzfE9LW_FBZRSpMh8bXw&q=big+az+cheeseburger&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjsl-C8nOWVAxWkAjQIHQ_4HOAQtKgLegQIDRAB&biw=1680&bih=941&dpr=2 https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&hs=ZTdV&sca...
- figassis 2mo agoIt's always been the purpose of ads, and this is how google was. Then they started making it hard to tell ads apart from content. When OpenAI starts injecting subliminal ads into your responses it will effectively win the manipulation battle and also have full plausible deniability becuase there is not even an algo you can point to.
- dzonga 2mo agoreminds me of a black mirror episode - where one of subjects is about to have sex and then mentions an ad for lube due to the brain implant lol.
- thrixton 2mo agoThat is one of the more horrifying ones. I wonder if we'll get stealth ads in chat
- inigyou 2mo agothey'd have to be incompetent not to put stealth ads in chat. They could make so much money with stealth ads in chat.
- erikerikson 2mo agoYou'll pay extra for those. The ones marked as adds will be cheap. Like how the expensive placement is into the movie (e.g. Apple) rather than the disruptions of the movie.
- duskdozer 2mo agoG[enerative]EO is already a thing, there's no way they'll just let all that value be extracted for free.
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- pcmaffey 2mo agoIt’s provably load-bearing.
- inigyou 2mo agoNow in strawberry flavour - with three "e"s!
- Ancapistani 2mo agoWhile I think there is in fact a way to implement ads for monetization without destroying the product, I’m not going to stand here and defend the idea any more than I’d defend a self-described ephebophile because that descriptor includes young adults (19) — because in both cases, even though you’re technically correct, it pretty much sounds like you’re defending pedophiles.
- walrus01 2mo agoWe can fully automate LinkedIn lunatic posting now, to go full dead internet theory. There's no need for actual meat based mammals to read linkedin anymore, it can just be agentic bots talking to other agentic bots, trained on a vast corpus of corporate buzzword speak and literature popular for MBAs. Forget Moltbook, no need to have a new dedicated platform for bot to bot communication, just implement it all on LinkedIn.
- badatnames 2mo agoVery much looking forward to news of the first lawyer fired for a vibed court submission with a fleshlight ad buried in the middle of it
- BiteCode_dev 2mo agoI downvoted up out of reflex, then read till the and went back to upvote. Courageous game you are playing here.
- satvikpendem 2mo agoThat first sentence, but unironically. I've found lots of good products on the Internet via ads.