Competitors use ads?

I'm "excited" for the era of different locally run LLMs get to have ads baked into them... People start selling ad-space to inject into their training/tuning data. Could be quite lucrative.

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

Not yet. But they likely will, if OpenAI's ad revenue becomes worthwhile.

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tyre 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Or they view it as a differentiator and focus on a different segment. As I understand it, this is what Anthropic is doing:

1. Focus on businesses and developers

2. Make money on productivity and API platform

Enterprises are particularly sensitive about their data being farmed (e.g. note that paid Google accounts don’t have their emails used for ads.)

Keeping that trust is not a differentiator and existentially important to Anthropic.

	▲	runjake 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I just don't believe that is likely. I think that, despite Anthropic's present statements, they will move to ads if ads prove successful for ChatGPT or Gemini. It would be viewed as "leaving money on the table" by their board and shareholders if they didn't.
	▲	simianwords 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		this is false and not how things work at the enterprise level. trust is important and it is not lost by showing ads in free tier. trust is lost in other ways.

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simianwords 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

no they don't

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eknkc 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They will or they will perform worse. OpenAI will be able to offer a better `free tier` as it won't be free after all.

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Someone1234 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not yet, but they all will. OpenAI has shown that customers will accept it.

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simianwords 7 hours ago | parent [-]

name a single product that has

1. many competitors

2. ways to pay for the subscription but no tier exists to remove ads

i can't even think of one.

	▲	vntok 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ever heard of a thing called television?
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