So basically the same kind of tracking that Facebook, Google, etc have been doing for decades?

gentlewater 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Which has really only been accepted because 99% of people don’t understand how it works. Hard to be outraged by something you can’t see or understand. In my book, the practice is akin to malware. I recently opened a website for an AI service in incognito mode, because I didn’t care to have it in my search results. Despite avoiding third party cookies here, the site still fired off a tracker to Meta, who then correlated my home IP address with my Facebook account, and filled my feed with ads for this AI service. When I was tracked like this despite a somewhat informed defense, which defense do normal people have against this? None.

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emptybits 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Similar, yes, but some people are paying OpenAI to be part of this business model, unlike typical free-riding Google and Facebook users.

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theptip 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you pay OpenAI full price, this machinery should never be used. The only paying customers getting ads are the “ad supported” tier.

I think you can easily imagine a future where the subscription model token subsidy ramps down and is replaced by ads, but it’s important to use precise language about the current state of the world.

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troupo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Derogatory "Free-riding users". "Free riding users" should have the same privacy as the paying ones.

	▲	rangestransform an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Will the government pay OpenAI to run an ad-free free tier?

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rvz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes. But there is no surprise given that OpenAI hired lots of ex-Meta and Google employees for that reason.

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latexr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

The fact that others do the same doesn’t make any of the cases excusable.