| ▲ | baby_souffle 4 hours ago | |
> I’m going to notice “Susie, while at home drinking her delicious ice cold coca-cola….” It will be much more subtle. Asking an LLM to help you sift through reviews before you spend $250 on some appliance or what good options are for hotels on your next trip… Basically the same queries people throw into google but then have to manually open a bunch of tabs and do their own comparison except now the llm isn’t doing a neutral evaluation, it’s going to always suggest one particular hotel despite it not being best for your query. | ||
| ▲ | 986aignan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Not all answers are conducive to such subtle manipulation, though. If the user asks for an algorithm to solve the knapsack problem, it's kind of hard to stealthily go "now let's see how many Coca Colas will fit in the knapsack". If the user asks for a cyberpunk story, "the decker prepared his Microsoft Cyberdeck" would sound off, too. Biasing actual buying advice would be feasible, but it would have to be handled very carefully to not be too obvious. | ||
| ▲ | techblueberry 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Right, I just don’t see how it can be subtle, maybe it will be the opposite where I assume things are ads that aren’t, but any time I see a specific brand or solution I will assume it’s an ad. It’s not like a movie where I’m engrossed by the narrative or acting and only subliminally see the can of coke on the table (though even then) Maybe image generation ads will be a bit more subtle. | ||