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TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
well you gotta get people hooked on it first.

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- miraclerandy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yup, same thing happened with social media and search engines. Get people using your product then start running ads
  
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LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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 ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ads and mass surveillance. That is the goal of big tech and llms.

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- CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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