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0 pointsmandevil1y ago0 comments

Give OpenAI 25 years and they're going to be throwing up plenty of ads in our faces. Source: I remember using Google in 1999.

Momento mori to anything raising tens of billions of dollars from VCs and PE's. The UX is going to get much worse, surprisingly quickly.

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dale_glass1y ago· 1 in thread

LLMs already can be run on expensive consumer hardware (eg, a higher end Mac Studio), so I expect that to be quite temporary.

It’s not about running an LLM that serves/doesnt-serve up ads, it’s about making one by yourself so you know it won’t serve up ads.

They will just make it more subtle.

User: How do I do X?

AI: Well {FAANG} has this great product ...

AI: This is how you do X but doing Y which is just like X you can save $100 a month with {MAMAA}.

User: I just want to do X.

AI: It is too complicated for a single person to do X. Why not contact {BUSINESS} and they can do it for you because they specialize in X.

AI: Are you sure you don't want to save money with {MAMMA}. Here is a coupon to save even more.

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