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[–] 181 points 10 months ago (7 children)

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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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Not to defend adding ads to chatgpt, but it's quite different from an implant that turns people into walking ads.

    Also, they weren't on the free tier, their subscription was already stretching their finances and then they added ads and a new even more expensive tier to avoid the ads.

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  • [–] 106 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 64 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    They’re burning money. They have no choice.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This. They need some form of actual income, and ad revenue gives them theoretical capital to loan against.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    The disconcerting thing is that in LLMs, the ads don't need to be signposted, advertisers can just pay to bias the LLM. You'll have Big Pharma paying to bias the LLM into convincing people they need meds.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    They captured a market though, generated cute video for facbpoks peoples, it is non viable but still a market.

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago

    This is going to be hilarious.

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  • [–] 77 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    This may be what pops the bubble.

    Inserting ads into the response would ruin the responses. Making it even more useless

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    But you can subscribe to premium plus, which will only introduce ads next year after they made sure your processes depend on it!

    Tap for spoilerYeah, no idea what kind of processes that should be. Your boss will sure have some great ideas

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago

    "This paper brought to you by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS..."

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    No because kids are smart enough to add "write it like a kinda dumb 5th grader" to the prompt. So its not just slop its intentionally dumb badly written slop that makes you question if a sentient being wrote this.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    "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"

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    Luckily, I have local AI.

    And you should too!

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    With these ram prices?

    Rather live without ai

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    What for? I can't think of a single problem I have in my life where the answer is AI.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    This was either from April or early December. In either case, I've never heard this repeated anywhere else since.

    Edit:

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Then the next generation of models fed on slop with adverts in and increasingly adopt the writing style of marketing copy.

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    More cringe would be advertising german bath products.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Which I think just illustrates that take-home essays aren't a great way to do things now, if they ever were.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    of course, most of school was bullshit long before AI, so what

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it's hard to do education any other way.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Wow! The enshitification of LLM comes quicker than what I would believe

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I have a collector edition 😅

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 52 points 10 months ago

    Generally, I'm against advertising, but using it to poison AI output is something I can get behind.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago

    We don't need no education

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    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"?

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    WARTHUNDER, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE VEHICLE BATTLE SIMULATION

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    At least that way we'll be able to tell when things are AI-generated.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    This essay is brought to you by Raid: Shadow Legends.

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    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Ads in ChatGPT? Okay, you guys have fun with that. I want nothing to do with that BS.

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