Though in general I like the idea of personal ads for products (NOT political ads), I've never seen an implementation that I felt comfortable with. I wonder if Arthropic might be able to nail that. I'd love to see products that I'm specifically interested in, so long as the advertisement itself is not altered to fit my preferences.

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lostdog 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

There is no such thing as a good flow for showing sponsored items in an LLM workflow.

The point of using an LLM is to find the thing that matches your preferences the best. As soon as the amount of money the LLM company makes plays into what's shown, the LLM is no longer aligned with the user, and no longer a good tool.

	▲	agar 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Same can be said for search. And your statement is provably correct, depending on the definition of "good tool." But it's not only money's influence on the company, it's also money's influence on the /data/ underlying the platform that undermines the tool. Once financial incentives are in place, what will be the AI equivalent of review bombing, SEO, linkjacking, google bombing, and similar bad behaviors that undermine the quality of the source data?

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Terr_ 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Though in general I like the idea of personal ads for products (NOT political ads), I've never seen an implementation that I felt comfortable with.

No implementation will work for very long when the incentives behind it are misaligned.

The most important part of the architecture is that the user controls it for the user's best interests.