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c7byesterday at 10:03 PM1 replyview on HN

Maybe someone with more time at hands could look up what Google said with respect to ads and what happened later.

This is one of the rare instances where it's very easy to predict the future: the prompt auction market will look similar to the existing online ad market, financial firms will pay for prompt streams for sentiment analysis, companies and interest groups will pay to have their products or agenda included favorably in the training data for future open weights models... any way you can think of that LLMs can be monetized, you will see it happen. And fast. The financial pressure is way too high for there to be too long of a honeymoon phase like we had with web 2.0


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dd82today at 12:54 AM

And how much trust are you going to have with your model results that they haven't been transformed and adjusted by advertising priorities?

search engine results do this all the time, reordering output by advertiser input. its a pretty small jump from that to rewriting output from models, and even better where its all a black box.

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