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I’d rather they served ads. The economy is somewhat broken right now, with the way these things are bypassing all regular information channels. This will hopefully create lots and lots of new business for 3rd parties again.

Ideally, they’ll introduce a whole new level of targeting relevance, which will be good for both advertisers and prospects.

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these ads don't solve the broken economy. The original creators of some content that was stolen by OpenAI will not get a piece of the ad pie.

we’re talking about different things. there’s meritocratic fairness where producers are paid fairly for their work, and there’s a functioning economy, where there are simply enough economic opportunities to sustain established norms of commercial participation by the broad population.

Thinking about the power and reach of political ads served by social media companies over the past 10 years, this is gonna be a whole nother bucket of worms.

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