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0 pointsarctic-true4mo ago0 comments

When OpenAI starts requiring a payment, or showing an ad before it starts translating, will they continue? Or will they use the Google Translate app, which can do this locally? (Or for that matter Gemini or Grok or whatever?)

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JumpCrisscross4mo ago

> showing an ad before it starts translating, will they continue

Yes. What evidence do we have that mass consumers decamp because of ads?

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paxys4mo ago

“When Netflix starts showing ads who on earth will still use it?”

Everyone, it turns out. Same with Google. Same with YouTube. Same with Instagram, and the rest of the web.

Once people become dependent on ChatGPT (as they already are) watching a 30 second ad in the middle of a session will become second nature.

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