• TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    This was inevitable. LLM chatbots were always going to end up as vectors for ad delivery.

    The surprising part is that it took this long for a company to do it.

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        4 days ago

        Yup, same thing happened with social media and search engines. Get people using your product then start running ads

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Yup. Ask it about Elon’s hair transplants and it will give you a link to purchase your next holiday in Turkey. This is what it was always designed for.

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      4 days ago

      Exactly what I was thinking!
      Sincerely surpised the more “search engine-y” offerings like Perplexity or Bing Chat (Copilot? Whatever) aren’t doing it already

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        I think it’s because they’re still trying to get people locked in, or at least feeling like they can’t operate without it.

        Twitter must just be more desperate for cash.