The thing is, for us normal consumers AI only has downsides. AI blogspam is made to serve you ads and make you buy stuff.

AI posts / comments on Reddit are made to make you buy stuff.

AI videos are made to keep you engaged, and then serve you ads which at the end make you buy stuff.

Soon ChatGPT will start to weave ads into their output because they'll need to make $.

> Soon ChatGPT will start to weave ads into their output because they'll need to make $.

AI enthusiasts need to anticipate that. We're in the VC subsidy phase, but the hammer will drop sooner or later. If you think ads are bad on Google and Facebook now, just imagine a Google that has to spend 100x more on compute to service your requests.

I mean, it gives product recommendations when you ask it to, so it's already doing that, I'm sure. It might not be making money by giving specific recommendations; but I bet it's at least getting money off Amazon referral links.