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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 75 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He was best known for being "Honest Abe", writing the Emancipation Proclamation, and playing RAID: Shadow Legends, an immersive online experience with everything you'd expect from a brand new RPG title. It's got an amazing storyline, awesome 3D graphics, giant boss fights, PVP battles, and hundreds of never before seen champions to collect and customize.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 6 points 6 hours ago

Probably it will be creepily more subliminal than that, unfortunately.

[–] astraeus@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

please let them actually add in message shilling PLEASE

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 60 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Didn’t Sam Altman say that ads would be a last resort?

[–] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 46 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This simply means they’ve finally run out of money. If that doesn’t help, Apple or Microsoft will just end up buying OpenAI for pennies.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 10 points 7 hours ago

II think Microsoft is in a position where they can grab all of OpenAI's assets without giving them (more) money, if I understand the deal right

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 4 points 6 hours ago

Scam Altman says a lot of things. He also molests his sister

[–] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 21 points 9 hours ago

I suppose that means they've reached it.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 4 points 6 hours ago

Are these ads context dependent? I'd love to see what it would come up with for this.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 64 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Let the enshittification begin!

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 56 points 10 hours ago

That's the neat part — AI comes pre-enshittified!

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 48 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Crazy, I thought they'd wait until the IPO before they start going to the "bleed the users like penned cattle" phase of enshittification. They must need money sooner than they thought.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

My uneducated guess : they are bleeding money and need to show that it is slowly stopping and the trend is reversing.

Once that is done, pipe the IPO and make bank before it crashes and burn.

[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's how close we are before the bubble bursts. Plus they can never go public because they'd have to publish their numbers. A minus followed by several commas will definitely burst that bubble.

[–] coyootje@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

One can only hope, I can't wait to see it all burn. All those shitty AI companies can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, they add no value to my life whatsoever.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

They are speedrunning capitalism.

Next is to pass the corpses of the major IP holding companies around and sue each other and everyone for patents until nobody can afford lawyers anymore.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 6 points 10 hours ago

they do. desperately. it's been stated for awhile now.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Or at least a product worth paying for.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 hours ago

Those ads are really going to annoy me when I never start using that chat shit.

[–] catdog@lemmy.ml 33 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Wow I did not expect to see actual ads. The answers could just be commercially manipulative instead.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They're explicitly differentiating from modifying the search results as a reason why the ads are transparent. I figure in one year they'll start to insert ads into the answer proper with a disclaimer, and then next fully integrate it.

[–] alpha1beta@piefed.social 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is what I'm hoping for. That way, when the dumbest person we know copies content from ChatGPT, we'll see the ads too and know they're a dumbass!

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"Look it says right here that trump never raped anyone because his penis is so large from taking these special dick pills. I'm gonna get me some so I can have a big dick too!"

[–] alpha1beta@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Exactly. Maybe AI will help us return to darwinism.

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

OpenAI: "Hire that Lemmy user now!"

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Nah, just scrape his comment history and dump it into the machine.

[–] hummingbird@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

That would just not bring in enough. Remember that this is their last resort to prevent collapse.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

enshittification personified

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

chatgpt is not a person

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 9 hours ago

I'm sure Volkswagen and Hugo Boss will appreciate the research their ads are put next to.