The bottleneck isn’t the people doing the work but the leadership’s bandwidth for strategic thinking

I think it's a matter of public perception and user sentiment. You don't want to shove ads into a product that people are already complaining about. And you don't want the media asking questions like why you rolled out a "health assistant" at the same time you were scrambling to address major safety, reliability, and legal challenges.

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stanford_labrat 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

chatgpt making targeted "recommendations" (read ads) is a nightmare. especially if it's subtle and not disclosed.

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tracerbulletx 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The end game is its a sales person and not only is it suggesting things to you undisclosed. It's using all of the emotional mechanisms that a sales person uses to get you to act.

	▲	boringg 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		100% end game - no way to finance all this AI development without ads sadly - % of sales isn't going to be enough - we will eventually get the natural enshittification of chatbots as with all things that go through these funding models.

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HPsquared 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It'll be hard to separate them out from the block of prose. It's not like Google results where you can highlight the sponsored ones.

	▲	lukan 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Of course you can. As long as the model itself is not filled with ads, every agentic processing on top can be customly made. One block the true content. The next block the visually marked ad content "personalized" by a different model based on the user profile. That is not scary to me. What will be scary is the thought, that the lines get more and more blurry and people already emotionally invested in their ChatGPT therapeuts won't all purchase the premium add free (or add less) versions and will have their new therapeut will give them targeted shopping, investment and voting advice.
	▲	boringg 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean google does everything possible to blur that line while still trying to say that it is telling you it is an ad.

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cortesoft 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Exactly. This is more about “the product isn’t good enough yet to survive the enshittification effect of adding ads.”

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tiahura 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How is strategic thinking going to produce novel ideas about neural networks?

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ceejayoz 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The strategic thinking revolves around "how do we put ads in without everyone getting massively pissed?" sort of questions.

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whiplash451 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly. Which takes a decade and a lot of thinking to get right

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therein 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure how that would be done without pissing people off. But you know what sounds good right now? A fresh bowl of Kellogg's Rice Crispy Treats. Would you like me to load Instacart for you?

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doubled112 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I was shocked to see Prime Video display a button to open the Amazon store to the product that was playing in the ad.

	▲	sebmellen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When this happened to me yesterday I felt I’d entered a black mirror episode.

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sien 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If only they had a tool that they claim could help with things like that....