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

From candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: “Why Ads Are Coming To Your Favorite AI Bots And You’ve Only Got Yourself To Blame”
Date 2025-06-16 19:20 +0000
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 06:46 this Sunday (GMT):
> I’m having difficulty understanding this article
><https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-ads-are-coming-to-your-favorite-ai-bots-and-youve-only-got-yourself-to-blame/>.
>
> Yes, deploying AI chatbots is expensive. It takes a lot of hardware on
> the cloud side, but more importantly, all that hardware consumes a lot
> of expensive electricity.
>
> 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?


Not surprised.
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“Why Ads Are Coming To Your Favorite AI Bots And You’ve Only Got Yourself To Blame” Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-15 06:46 +0000
  Re: “Why Ads Are Coming To Your Favorite AI Bots And You’ve Only Got Yourself To Blame” candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-06-16 19:20 +0000
    Re: “Why Ads Are Coming To Your Favorite AI Bots And You’ve Only Got Yourself To Blame” yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-06-16 20:19 +0042
  Re: “Why Ads Are Coming To Your Favorite AI Bots And You’ve Only Got Yourself To Blame” kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2025-06-16 21:18 -0400
    Re: “Why Ads Are Coming To Your Favorite AI Bots And You’ve Only Got Yourself To Blame” candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-06-17 16:20 +0000

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