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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 2025-06-17 16:20 +0000
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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.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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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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