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.

I’d wager anything this won’t even slow down the “artists” that use it.

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.

Is it still enshittification if it was already shit?

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.

Lol imagine using AI.

The fact that ads will be injected in LLM was clear. I just thought Google would do it first in their AI responses.

“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…”

Omg, even the thing that is enshittifying everything is now being enshittified itself.

I accept my load of hallucinations and disguised approximations in exchange of relatively adfree neutral 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

If you were trying to link to an article, you just linked to an image.

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.

We really need yet another advertising vector. Not.

Then it starts hallucinating and gives an ad for a non existing product with a dead link. Advertisers get mad and threaten to sue.

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.