by kelseyfrog
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- The most enviable part of Star Trek isn't warp speed or teleporters; it's the complete lack of advertisements shown to the characters.
Moreover, there isn't a technological barrier to an ad-free life like the other technologies. We just haven't the collective social will to make it happen. In some sad way it feels even more impossible than FTL.
- Believe Google's pushed back on this: https://www.theverge.com/news/840438/google-pushes-back-on-a...
by s1mplicissimus
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- Does anyone of the finance pros here know if there would have been a way to profit off predicting that ads would be introduced into chatbot responses?
by hapticmonkey
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- This is like the Rick and Morty “you pass the butter” joke.
All the talented engineers pouring into AI realising they’ve just been used as tools of the ad-tech market to serve more ads to people. That’s their real purpose.
Please get out and go and make something better. Before even your most treasured moments, like reading kids bedtime stories, become commodified with ads.
https://ai.google.dev/competition/projects/storybook-ai-bedt...
- I truly wonder how long until there is ublock origin or similar for AI tools. One can only hope a gorhill like figure will emerge to save us.
by metallichrome
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- Google could easily afford to make Gemini ad-free, effectively the only consumer LLM with that as the base experience
- They are not even the leader. Ads too soon seems like a good way to ensure they never will be.
- For me they've already enshittified Gemini (at gemini.google.com) by making it recommend useless YouTube videos which I don't want to watch because I want to get the answer - that's why I use AI.
by jack_tripper
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- Teacher: Did you use AI to write your biology paper?
Student: no
The student's paper: "And you know what else helps wounds heal besides Aloe Vera? Playing War Thunder! The most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game"
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