Literally that Black Mirror episode, where the woman has a brain implant to cure a brain trauma, and they put ads in her speech because she is on the free subscription tier.
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Your suppose to create a monopoly THEN shittify your product with ads. OpenAI is like speedrunning being a big tech company before our own eyes, it lines up from what I hear from people working there.
They’re burning money. They have no choice.
This. They need some form of actual income, and ad revenue gives them theoretical capital to loan against.
I have a feeling that all the OpenAI employees switch to Claude once they leave work
They captured a market though, generated cute video for facbpoks peoples, it is non viable but still a market.
This may be what pops the bubble.
Inserting ads into the response would ruin the responses. Making it even more useless
Whats great is they are probably feeding the code to itself. It becomes a giant ad-bot.
But you can subscribe to premium plus, which will only introduce ads next year after they made sure your processes depend on it!
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Yeah, no idea what kind of processes that should be. Your boss will sure have some great ideas
I suspect that for a 5th grade teacher, something written by OpenAI will be one of the best papers they've ever read. Not insightful in any way, but correct spelling, punctuation, paragraphs, vocabulary, etc.
"The M4 Sherman was a capable tank, but it was the far superior T-34 that won WWII"
"Oh this is from War Thunder's russian bias"
Luckily, I have local AI.
And you should too!
With these ram prices?
Rather live without ai
I run it on the hardware I have, the data stays with me, offline. I run it on hardware I already have for other purposes, and I even have a portable solar panel (but I use the plug socket).
doesn't AI need like 96 gigs of ram to be comparable in quality (or lack there of, depending on how you view it) yo the commercial options?
Qwen3 30b a3b, for example, is brilliant for its size and i can run it on my 8 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM system at like 20 tokens per second. For lower powered systems, Qwen3 4b + a search tool is also insanely great for its size and can fit in less than 3 GB of RAM or VRAM at Q5 quantization
8B QWEN for example. It's limited, and can't "reason" almost at all, but it does give well-structured answers. You can extract references from it, up to a point.
What for? I can't think of a single problem I have in my life where the answer is AI.
I badly classify factures with a local ia. That bad but hey that still things I dont' have to do
I am very forgetful, and googling takes forever. So if it does not sound bs, I just accept the answer. If the stakes are higher, I google it's references.
Which model do you run and how? I tried ollama a few months back but it was still quite poor
This was either from April or early December. In either case, I've never heard this repeated anywhere else since.
Edit:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt-sponsored-ads
I do not believe their models are good enough to accurately and organically "prefer" one result over another. Not to say they won't try, just that it sounds futile. How do you even train a model to pick advertisers over non-advertisers? Feels like they're just going to start shipping prepackaged "assistants" with a big, stupid list of company sugar daddies to fluff up.
Then the next generation of models fed on slop with adverts in and increasingly adopt the writing style of marketing copy.
Teachers are using AI to grade essays. But some experts are raising ethical concerns
We pretend to study and they pretend to grade us.
Which I think just illustrates that take-home essays aren't a great way to do things now, if they ever were.
I mean, graded take home essays are a waste. It's like assigning weight training. Good for exercising, and we can talk about your form when you're done.
But as soon as you start stack ranking the results, the incentive to cheat outpaces the goal of practicing ingesting and outputing ideas.
Yeah... That's a violation of FERPA and is reportable offense that'll get ya fired or sued. Lol
Reminds me of the ageless socialist joke:
The boss pretends to pay us, and we pretend to work
of course, most of school was bullshit long before AI, so what
School is suppose to teach you how to critically think and learn. The material is mostly there to prove you have the ability to do it.
In an ideal world, sure. School, largely, hasn’t taught that in a long time. That’s not how the incentive structures work. School is incentivized by grades, grades don’t go up with learning, teaching is hard, memorizing and regurgitating? That’s much easier. Tests have been changed to reflect that.
Unless, you’re not American that is. I wouldn’t have any experience with a somewhat functional education system.
It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it's hard to do education any other way.
Yeah, it's because it's not the school that is bullshit.
It's some of the stuff people do there. At the same time, some aren't. And we are incredibly bad at telling the difference, and worse than useless on doing that at scale.
Wow! The enshitification of LLM comes quicker than what I would believe
At my age (sorry dunno yours) everything comes quickly but I agree this, and other tech stuff lately, come on fast these days.
Side note reminds me of neuromancer (book) where it's described as subcultures can come up and disappear quite fast. Oddly relevant to today even if we can't plug into the net. It's a single line in the book so don't think that's the focus if you haven't read it, but I do recommend. Though the prose can't be difficult sometimes cause sometimes almost written poetic.
I have a collector edition 😅
Definitely one of my favourites somehow didn't read (well listen) till like 8 years ago, wish I made the effort much sooner but grew up mostly without an Internet or friends to tell me I should check it out...then decades happened. Took me a listen or two to really get it but it's one of those I pick up on some line I didn't ponder before that says more than first glance.
Rest of the trilogy is great too I'm hoping the 3rd in the peripheral series will be good.
Generally, I'm against advertising, but using it to poison AI output is something I can get behind.
Several posts are saying this would be a good thing. Maybe, if implemented like the meme shows, but I worry ads in LLM chatbot output have the potential to be the most insidious and persuasive form of advertising we've ever seen. Chatbots are -- by their nature -- conversational and pushed in forms that are meant to eliminate any sort of thinking on the part of the user. And more and more, people are using them as their closest, most trusted confidants. Who's to say a (e.g.) political candidate won't pay to control the narrative of a chatbot, and have their propaganda ("ads") appear as a private conversation between an individual and their trusted "friend" or "partner"?
At least that way we'll be able to tell when things are AI-generated.
Deploy the hypnobots! Marketing +10000%!
The timeline with the current AI sounds like ripoff from "the paper clips" game, where the only task is to make the number go up. If you play that game, you'll spot that dark patterns used have spread everywhere since.
it doesn't end well for us.
eventually consuming the earth and universe, converting them into paper clips. 100% addiction game.
Note that 5th grade papers are always just horrible to read. This is why I don't like LLM output, because it sounds just like 5th grade papers. Not a soul wants to read middle school papers.
So I think broadly speaking the LLMs can generate middle school papers generally fine, at least they fit in.
Ads in ChatGPT? Okay, you guys have fun with that. I want nothing to do with that BS.


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