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I imagine it will go through a period of reasonably subtle product placement text before switching over to outright ads mid-sentence.

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As a large language model, I can't he-
Hi, it’s Clippy with ShamWow! You’ll be saying, “Wow,” every time you use this towel. It’s like a shammy. It’s like a towel. It’s like a sponge. A regular towel doesn’t work wet. This works wet or dry.
This is for the house, the car, the boat, the RV. ShamWow! holds 12 times its weight in liquid. Look at this. It just does the work.
Why would you want to work twice as hard? It doesn’t drip. It doesn’t make a mess. Wring it out. You wash it in the washing machine.
Made in Germany—you know the Germans always make good stuff!

-lp with that"

Hopefully we’ll be able to ask ChatGPT to spell it “chamois” in future communications. There needs to be a line drawn somewhere.

Adverts and misspellings. A double whamois.

Technically “shammy” is an alternate spelling. It just happens to be one up with which I shall not put.

“Whamois” is good though.

Yes, I don't have the exact design in mind, but I think it is very likely that LLM could bring a new era of advertisement. AI who knows the product that is being advertized and the user and their current state of mind really well to have order of magnitudes of probability of action that the advertiser want. AI could also maintain better ad quality and provide better experience to user, as now people are finally getting fully desensitized to all the scammy ads with full screen banner.

This could really be the next big thing from AI which I believe is solvable using current generation of LLM. And this will be the next trillion dollar company.

A good AI that can filter out the ads and product placement from the stream coming from a such a compromised AI is the next step. Let the AI phase of the advertising wars begin!

That would be a very effective way of ensuring that I don't use LLMs for anything ever.

I'd rather just cancel my internet subscription.

Aren't they legally required to clearly differentiate advertising text from other text? At least in the EU.

If ChatGPT just feels like casually mentioning how amazing the latest Fiat Panda is, and how great it's priced, and how cool you would look when driving it, and how the current model happens to come in your favorite shade of puce, all whilst having a nice little chat with you about parsing JSON with Python, is that really problematic?

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