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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

well you gotta get people hooked on it first.

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[–] miraclerandy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Ads and mass surveillance. That is the goal of big tech and llms.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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