People regularly ask ChatGPT for product recommendations of all kinds, explicit and implicit.

ChatGPT will also probably be selling ad infrastructure to inject ads just like Google injects ads into search. They probably will pay out little to websites that include the “ChatGPT” widget to integrate ChatGPT with their site that also has ads.

Right now the barriers are technical for injecting ads into AI responses.

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XorNot 3 days ago | parent [-]

That directly tanks the entire value of AI though.

As an advanced research engine, knowing it will reliably only recommend you sponsored products means it's worthless - and worse it will be primed to advocate for sponsored products.

Then the whole thing becomes a scam engine, because check out what Facebook ads look like today.

	▲	vlovich123 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That’s like claiming that “as an advanced search engine, knowing that Google promoted sponsored products and reranks its algorithms accordingly sometimes means it’s worthless” Regardless of if that’s true, it’s clearly still a huge business opportunity. And you point out Facebook ads are a scam yet they bring in $164B/year and growing. Regardless of value judgement, there’s clearly a lot of money to chase.