Ads in AI should be banned right now. We need to learn from mistakes of the internet (crypto, facebook) and aggressively regulate early and often before this gets too institutionalized to remove.

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nancyminusone 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They did learn. That's why they are adding ads.

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doomslayer999 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Boomers in government would be clueless on how to properly regulate and create correct incentives. Hell, that is still a bold ask for tech and economist geniuses with the best of intentions.

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irishcoffee 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Would that be the same cohort of boomers jamming LLMs up our collective asses? So they don’t understand how to regulate a technology they don’t understand, but fucking by golly you’re going to be left behind if you don’t use it?

This is like a shitty Disney movie.

	▲	doomslayer999 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's mostly SV grifters who shoved LLMs up our asses. They then get in cahoots with boomers in the government to create policies and "investment schemes" that inflate their stock in a ponzi-like fashion and regulate competition. Why do you think Trump has some no-name crypto firm, or why Thiel has Vance as his whipping boy, and Elon spend a fortune trying to get Trump to win? This is a multiparty thing, as most politicians are heavily bought and paid for.

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kalterdev 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ads (at least in the classical pre-AI sense) are by orders of magnitude better than preventive laws

	▲	Marsymars an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm not sure how anyone could reasonably argue that Alaska would be orders of magnitude better off if they reversed the implementation of their billboard-banning ballot measure and put up billboards everywhere.
	▲	rimbo789 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I trust corporations far far far less than government or lawmakers (who I also don’t trust). I know corporations will use ads in the most manipulative and destructive manner. Laws may be flawed but are worth the risk.