It wasn't that long ago I got down voted on HN for saying this was going to happen.

As a general rule of thumb in sites like Reddit and HN - the quality of votes is significantly lower than the quality of comments. This is because it takes much more effort to comment, so there is a selection bias.

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musicale 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not convinced that downvotes add much value. They should be a "this is irrelevant/spam" button but in practice they seem to be used as a "dislike" button to enforce groupthink.

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fn-mote 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah… I don’t understand how anyone could look at the prevalence of advertising and affiliate links on the internet and believe they would for some reason stay away from the LLM products.

Sure Sam Altman and his $200/mo subscribers won’t see them, but it was clear they were coming for free users.

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		>$200/mo subscribers won’t see them Yet. Amazon Prime has ads despite it being a paid service.

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Gracana 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Voting can be for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes I downvote things like that because I want to bury bait that would send an argument into a well-trodden and boring direction.

	▲	Ylpertnodi 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Let the reader decide? I - incredibly rarely - downvote. It's either vote up, or move along.