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Can we not encourage the same strip-mining and ad and SEO bullshit that previously ruined the last decade+ of the Internet?

A large portion of the utility of AI is the barren ad-driven growth-hacked hellscape search has become. Don't encourage the next generation of these businesses, I beg of everyone.

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Large amounts of capital want this to happen? Outside of boycott, what else can be done.

What can man do against such reckless ~hate~ money?

It is probably already happening, and will get worse. OpenAI was boasting about their advertising revenue mere days ago.

If we felt like we couldn't trust AI because of slop, soon we won't be able to trust it because it'll push whatever pays them to do it.

And while these sponsorship shenanigans are the tech business’s bread and butter, sponsored answer manipulation seems fundamentally more insidious. Even in a larger-scale measurement like this one, there’s no way to tell if any of that is sponsored, legitimately good recommendations, or the technical flavor of the goblins problem.

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