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I can't wait for an ad companies to force you to watch a 10 second video ad before it gives you a result for your query.

It's only a matter of time before these AI companies start pairing up with ad companies(if they already haven't). Google could easily put ad videos every 10 queries or something. You already see these limited free tokens/credits/querie on AI art sites.

How long until they put some ads in-between queries?

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I bet eventually someone's going to try to commercialize a model that injects ads into its responses...

Prompt: What are the 3 most populated EU countries?

Response: The three European countries with the highest populations are Germany, France and Italy. You can book a flight to any of these locations now for 10% off on Expedia.com. Use code TravelGPT.

My speculation is that whatever we will be typing into these chat boxes (be it Bing, Bard, or free ChatGPT) will ultimately be used to for ad targeting anywhere on the web and beyond, either in-house (Bing) or via data brokers.

At least showing an ad here and there is fair as you're using something for free and it's not trying to manipulate you, only show you an ad. It would be much worse if they actually biased the answers to talk about stuff they are paid to endorse...

Advertising is inherently manipulative. That's the entire point. Here, it's biasing toward Expedia, who profits if you use them regardless of which country you travel to.

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