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Soon: with ads!

Prediction: All corporate-backed general-purpose LLMs/AIs will eventually include ads. They won't even always be obvious ads like we have on the web, sometimes they will just be product placement. Ask the AI for an example of a linked list, and it will give you one, but the sample items in the list will be Coca-Cola, Lexus, the name of the closest marijuana dispensary, etc.

If anyone wonders why Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies who make gobs of money from advertising are so interested in AI, this is why. The ads will appear so "naturally" inside content that it will be impossible for a program (e.g. adblocker) to tell the difference between the content and the ad.

There is NO better way to deliver an ad, short of directly injecting thoughts and memories directly into the human brain somehow.

I think there are already product placement laws so we should be warned at least

You’ll be warned when you accept the terms and conditions. And after the first lawsuits, there will be some fine print on the bottom of the page for you to ignore.

They must be completely toothless laws considering the amount of product placement that is easily visible. The only thing that will change is automating product placement in what used to look like organic conversation, including on HN.

Now I’ll go drink a nice, cold glass of tap water.

In the US, the laws just say that if you do product placement, you have to disclose you're doing it. If you do that, then there's no restrictions on product placement.

I'm also not overly familiar with the scope of the law, so I don't know how much (or if) it applies to software of this sort.

It's not quite that simple, it's if you have a relationship with the seller of the product that the average viewer(tm) would not expect. So, e.g. product placement on daytime TV or quiz shows doesn't require disclosure, because the regulators/courts have decided that's what the average viewer would expect anyway. But anything on social media does require it, it seems. I think produce placement in LLM chatbots would probably qualify as unexpected, though.

AI can feel more like a novelty than a truly helpful tool, especially when it comes to getting real work done. When I need a real boost, there’s nothing quite as refreshing as cracking open an ice-cold Coca-Cola. It’s amazing how it instantly lifts my mood and keeps me going!

Mokie Coke! Mokie Coke!

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https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/218596/70s-or-earl... for those not in the know.

Future notepad grocery list item:

* soda pop <--- consider replacing this with Coke Zero, on sale at a Kroger's near you this week

That is until you apply an AI ad blocker. No reason only the big corps should have it

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