But then again, the ads models have worked out fairly well for google and meta when ublock origin on firefox and for a loong time on chrome too was literally just go to appstore, search ublock origin, click download
That was it
I am sure that we are gonna see similar innovations happen for these ads too but then again, I think that the key point here is that the ad models works right now when we have ublock origin, so even if we have your tool, maybe most people (would still be ignorant about it?)
I think this is what is basing the whole AI industry in but this cannot be the way they can fund trillions of $'s spent.
I think what would happen more likely is that they will use AI to create a detailed profile of you and see the code generated, where its deployed, see what username it was and what email, link all your emails to every platform and every connection. Not going to lie, but its a scary thought.
I think something scarier can happen if it can actively shadow-ban you like its doing but now from the whole web in a more "personalized way" Imagine if google chrome launches out a feature that blocks websites which can be harmful to you creating an AI generated block-list I guess giving reasons why...
I think AI context windows are going to be an issue here and compute required to do this at scale so I don't really know and I am just rambling right now.
Personally I don't really know, If Google has ads, I just use gemini web for some vibe coding, I might take more questions to chinese models or even pay for them via something like open router where they might not have ads if this still happens via anonymity or just run the models locally yeah.
I wonder if we can create a community of people who have gpu who can have web of trust-like properties and they can share AI access to people who they trust and so on and maybe some gift properties but just niche closed properties where the trust factor is (more?)
Maybe offtopic but if we ever implement something like this, I really like https://ch.at 's interface and how minimalist it is.
What I forsee is a future of "local" AI engines. I think Apple is waiting for its moment for when people will ask for private-offline AI tools + a lot of smaller companies will follow. It won't be a huge success, but it will be popular in HN and in tech savvy crowd.
Ofc, it's only a personal prediction.
People would run away, but in Gemini they're already drifting towards this direction with the useless garbage video suggestions..
Advertisers might feel a bit weird about paying for something they cannot track, but for eg pharmaceutical companies have been taking doctors out to dinner for forever. Paying to sway the opinion of a communicator instead of paying to communicate is not necessarily new.
How they gonna maintain that ARPU? The whole economy is being held up by some unpriced asset somewhere. Once PE finds it, we are all cooked.
Student: no
The student's paper: "And you know what else helps wounds heal besides Aloe Vera? Playing War Thunder! The most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game"
Moreover, there isn't a technological barrier to an ad-free life like the other technologies. We just haven't the collective social will to make it happen. In some sad way it feels even more impossible than FTL.
The entirety of the future Starfleet on our current timeline gets bricked whenever us-east-1 goes offline
May I ask which city it is?
Will that always be the case? Or will the people who work at these organizations finally realize that they're only making the world a worse place every time they integrate advertisements into their business model?
All the talented engineers pouring into AI realising they’ve just been used as tools of the ad-tech market to serve more ads to people. That’s their real purpose.
Please get out and go and make something better. Before even your most treasured moments, like reading kids bedtime stories, become commodified with ads.
https://ai.google.dev/competition/projects/storybook-ai-bedt...
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