How long until advertisements are subtly introduced? I didn’t notice any specific brand of limoncello recommended in their demo.
Frankly the example they posted seems like a fairly happy one, where the user is explicitly implying that they’re seeking a specific physical product to introduce to their life. We’ve all seen where those monetization incentives lead over time though.
But you’re right—not even so much as a tiny word “Ad” like Google does…
Basically, this means the answer is based on a main webpage.
It shows the cute Mastodon logo and all :D
Advertising has far less protection than is ordinarily afforded to the kind of speech you might do as a person.
If that's what they want to do in this space, which is not a given.
Why do I care if Google succeeds or dies?
If anything I want them to die for ad infested they've made the internet. I don't want ads in either chatGPT or Google Search.
I can see OpenAI's revenue per search ending up higher too since the ads will be impossible to distinguish, so even more valuable for advertisers.
Google will suck all your data even if you pay, and link the entire earth of services to your identity.
For now, chatgpt doesn't care, and I already pay for what they provide.
May they kill Google.
20 years old me would freak out hearing me that, they used to be my heroes.
The modern maxim is: any content platform large enough to host an ad sales department will sell ads
Vanishingly few (valuable) consumers have zero tolerance for ads, so not selling ads means leaving huge sums of money on the table once you get to a certain scale. Large organizations have demonstrated that they can't resist that opportunity.
The road out is to either convince everyone to have zero tolerance for ads (good luck), to just personally opt for disperse, smaller vendors that distinguish themselves in a niche by not indulging, or to just support and use adversarial ad blockers in order to take personal control. Hoping that the next behemoth that everybody wants to use will protect you from ads is a non-starter. Sooner or later, they're going to take your money and serve you ads, just like the others.
Unless enough people all pay, the whole thing stops working. But there aren’t enough people who will pay because most people don’t care.
Tldr: the ad supported business model fundamentally doesn’t work if you let all your best products (you) opt out by paying. It requires them to pay an amount far in excess of what they would be willing to pay for the system to work.
They did not get addicted to selling ads, have billions in revenue from paying subscribers, and don't have to wean themselves off of ads (as Google and Meta would love to do).