It's hard to know exactly which forms it will end up taking, but dependence on these companies is going nowhere good. And more quickly than it took streaming (for example) to go from offering a better experience (to win market share) to the current (and inevitable) norm of raising prices constantly and introducing unskippable ads.

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dawnerd 10 days ago | parent | next [-]

I could totally see them having responses sprinkled with subtle marketing. Ask it for the best travel backpack and ooops all sponsored.

	▲	conception 10 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is already the case for OpenAI. Go ask for some backpack recommendations.

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CaptainOfCoit 10 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> and introducing unskippable ads.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but where on either ChatGPT or the API platform OpenAI hosts are you seeing ads?

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mapontosevenths 10 days ago | parent [-]

> it took streaming...

Parent is comparing OpenAI to other companies that followed a similar trajectory of enshittification.

	▲	gdulli 10 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, and just as ads eventually came to streaming in a worse form (unskippable, hypertargeted) that cable companies didn't have the ability to innovate, the new frontier of ads will again come with qualitatively worse innovations. Seamless and undisclosed in conversational LLM output.