• Leon@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    If ads are what it takes to kill this company then I’m all for it. Fucking cram that app full to bursting.

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        I can’t wait for it to die off. My editor decided to spontaneously fucking change my SQL query for me the other day. It made up utter nonsense, completely unprompted. Fucking hate all this garbage.

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          I’m not sure what SQL query is, but I tried to use quickbooks help chat thing and it was changing my words as I typed and churning out gibberish. I thought I was having a stroke. I ended up having to type in a notepad and copy it into the chat. Fucking ridiculous.

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        Next step will be the ads targeting the teacher instead of the student. Need to offer them good deals on their school supplies, if they have to buy that themselves. Also, can’t support them directly. AI wants to replace them anyway. Money machine needs to go Brrrrrrr…

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    7 months ago

    This time, OpenAI data engineer Daniel McAuley came to the firm’s defense, arguing that “this is not an ad (there’s no financial component).”

    However, McAuley admitted that the jarring experience leaves plenty to be desired.

    “It’s only a suggestion to install Peloton’s app,” he wrote. “But the lack of relevancy makes it a bad/confusing experience. We’re iterating on the suggestions and UX, trying to make sure they’re awesome.”

    Straight up gaslighting, I see.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So first off, ads suck.

    Second, I could put up with ads if they are fully disclosed as ads with a sponsor tag or something, but if they start putting it into the conversation as if it wasn’t an ad, I’ll stop using it right away.

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      This always seemed like the ultimate goal of a chatgpt or a Gemini.

      Attract: make a service that magically gives answers, killing the old ways to find or research information.

      Extract: once everyone trusts AI implicitly, weave in advertising without anyone’s knowledge, allowing for extremely subtle and effective brainwashing.