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.
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
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.
well you gotta get people hooked on it first.
Yup, same thing happened with social media and search engines. Get people using your product then start running ads
Ads and mass surveillance. That is the goal of big tech and llms.
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.
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
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.