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From chatbots to adbots: sharing your thoughts with advertisers (privacyinternational.org)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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AI chatbots are now in everyday use both across different industries and recreationally.

In this blog, we consider the growing possibility that these AI tools are the next home of the multi-billion-dollar advertising industry.

We look at examples from some AI companies that have already announced demos of sponsored ads in their AI chatbot tools, and discuss why this is dangerous territory for users.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 21 hours ago

Ultimately, the same thing applies to all internet services. If you're paying for a service by watching advertisements, they have to show them to you. I'll be an additional line in your mail inbox, mixed with the messages. Or an ad in-between the posts of social media. In between the list of news articles. And of course for AI serviced that include advertising, it needs to be the same.