Lol imagine using AI.
ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results
Submitted 2 weeks ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to technology@beehaw.org
https://fedia.io/media/93/77/937761715da35c5c9fb1267e65b4ea54c2b649c2eebbf8ce26d2b4cba20097bf.jpg
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the_q@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I’d post one of Facebook’s “Imagine” images as a joke but it sort of defeats the purpose. So imagine I did it. Feel free to leave the tap on while you do if you really wanna get the full experience.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Is it still enshittification if it was already shit?
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
If you were trying to link to an article, you just linked to an image.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
There’s a link for me in the post?
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s not visible via lemmy.today’s Web UI:
Checking whether it’s just lemmy.today somehow mangling things, it doesn’t look like it. Here’s beehaw.org’s Web UI directly:
As of the moment, both are a link to:
https://fedia.io/media/93/77/937761715da35c5c9fb1267e65b4ea54c2b649c2eebbf8ce26d2b4cba20097bf.jpginlandempire@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
There’s not for me but it’s probably the app formatting, using Summit rn, I’ll check with Thunder
vermaterc@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
…and despite that people are upvoting, because who cares about facts, let’s just hate a thing that I don’t like
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Facts like: they fixed the link to the factual article before your comment?
Janx@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Working with Blorp.
moseschrute@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Blorp dev here. Looks like it might be an instance thing. On PieFed social I’m seeing the article, but on Lemmy.zip I’m not seeing it. PieFed.social is returning separate urls for post url and post thumbnail, but Lemmy.zip returns the same image url for post url and post thumbnail. I’m not sure if it’s a PieFed/Lemmy issue or just happens to be that the two instances I tested are working that way.
towerful@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Omg, even the thing that is enshittifying everything is now enshittifying.
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The fact that ads will be injected in LLM was clear. I just thought Google would do it first in their AI responses.
Jtzl@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
That is straight-up nightmarish.
Like, people, it predicts the next “token” — referring to that as intelligence is way overstating it. I, too, think “AI” is impressive, but to say companies are overstating its capabilities is putting it lightly.
Janx@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“Hey, you know that chat bot that’s churning through billions in money and drinkable water every year to guess the answers to questions, lie, hallucinate, and gaslight false info? You know, the one that will never be profitable, but every giant company has a hard-on for, despite almost no one liking it…? What if we made it even more unreliable and inaccurate, by forcing in Corporate Answers™. And yeah, the customer still has to pay for it…”
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Wow, so unexpected. Who could have seen this coming? 🙄
At least Google had the decency to write “sponsored” on the sponsored results, but with this it’s not even an option.
Rhoeri@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I’d wager anything this won’t even slow down the “artists” that use it.
TomMasz@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
We really need yet another advertising vector. Not.
Jtzl@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I think I heard about some dystopian story when I was a kid, and the premise was ads on the inside of your eyelids while you slept. Now, that’d be called “innovation.” 🤦♂️
miellaby@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I accept my load of hallucinations and disguised approximations in exchange of a relatively adfree answers. That’s the only reason why I don’t go back on Google/DuckDuck for now. But as soon as I’ll see corporate bullshit forced into my chat, that’ll mark the end of my chat bot use
tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 2 weeks ago
You think we’ll still have Google and DuckDuckGo to go back to?
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Then it starts hallucinating and gives an ad for a non existing product with a dead link. Advertisers get mad and threaten to sue.
arsCynic@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Neo: Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one. How about, I give you the finger
[He does]
Neo: and you give me my phone call.Screengrab from The Matrix: Neo giving the finger to Agent Smith.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I’ve been saying this for a while. It’s gonna be particularly difficult to get valuable insight. With sponsored search results you can keep scrolling. Sponsored content will “pollute” the context of the conversation even if only some responses push sponsors.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
As someone who is not anti-tool just because big companies and capitalism are misusing said tool (that’s a ‘big companies’ and ‘capitalism’ issue that applies to far more than LLMs), this seems like a non-starter for any business use of the platform.
Enterprise tools definitely have an expectation of 1) not having ads placed in them, and 2) not having their users tracked for third-party data sale, not because they love their employees, but because they’re scared one could infer proprietary business information via user metadata correlation. No company wants their new product to be “blown” early because their devs’ internet activity was aggregated and the product inferred, or worse to have a competitor get the jump on them because of it. Most companies begrudgingly accept use of e.g. Google, but corporate policies will absolutely limit the kind of information you can put in a Google search. ChatGPT is just by its nature much more likely to end up getting proprietary data put in (because it’s a ‘conversation’).
The “promise” that OpenAI will only use said data to target ads is laughable, even if OpenAI believes it.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
could
This was the whole point of it from the start (subscriptions don’t mean non-ady enshitification).
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Getting harder to afford the setup, but there’s very compelling reasons to use local models instead
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 weeks ago
So … now we have plausible gibberish … also known as Autocorrect on Steroids … that includes corporate sponsorship… seems like we’re moving closer to the true meaning of advertising with every iteration.
Next we’ll be asked to pay for this feature … oh wait.
I can’t wait until the Assumed Intelligence bubble finally bursts and takes with it some of the largest companies in the world … perhaps this is how we finally address climate change.