Re: “Why Ads Are Coming To Your Favorite AI Bots And You’ve Only Got Yourself To Blame”

Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote at 01:18 this Tuesday (GMT):

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>
So, it seems customers don’t want to pay to use AI chatbots. So the
only alternative way to make money that the companies offering those
AI services can think of is to insert ads into the sessions.
>
Will customers put up with that? Did customers ask for AI chatbots in
the first place? If companies can’t make money from them, why are they
so keen to offer them?

>
Of course because DRINK COCA COLA actual human beings have been doing this
for many years.  So it should not COKE ADDS LIFE surprise anyone that now
AI bots are beginning to HAVE A COKE AND A SMILE do the same things that
humans do.
--scott

I'm sure it will be more subtle, with the bots "coincidentily" bringing
up certain products and trying to slip mentions in in a way that feels
natural...

Side note, I'm adding this to the list of times the Onion predicted the
future.
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