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Because it's another surveillance adtech company from SillyCon Valley. Duh.
by jsrozner 14d ago
Because it's another surveillance adtech company from SillyCon Valley. Duh.
- SoftTalker 14d agoIt turns out that the only way to make money online is ads. Nobody is going to pay for ChatGPT. They'll just use the ad-infested version, like they do everything else online. Well some people will pay, but not enough to justify the insane amounts of money being poured into it by investors.
- coliveira 14d agoGovernments will also pay for the tracking capabilities, as they're already doing to Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.
- SoftTalker 14d agoYes, I should have said "ads and tracking" good point.
- jsrozner 14d agoA bigger problem is that it will be impossible to know when you are seeing an ad: political groups (or the government, perhaps) will partner with openAI to subtly express different values. It's still an advertisement, and the underlying marketplace is similar (pay for access to change behavior). The best uses of AI will be surveillance, propaganda, cyberterrorism, and automated military tech. See, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/technology/iran-china-autonomous-ai-influence-campaigns.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/technology/iran-china-aut...