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Let the enshittification begin!
Didn’t Sam Altman say that ads would be a last resort?
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.
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
That link is worthy of its own post I think. Great read.
The blog (and its audio version, the Better Offline podcast) is very good indeed - somewhere between cathartic and revelatory at all times. I'm overjoyed to hear you liked it, but it sure can be wordy. I pay for the premium newsletter, but I find myself skimping on it... But re-reading and referring to chunks of it often.
I suppose that means they've reached it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow I did not expect to see actual ads. The answers could just be commercially manipulative instead.
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.
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!
"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!"
I figure in one year they'll start to insert ads into the answer proper with a disclaimer, and then next fully integrate it.
I see you've played knifey/spoony/enshitify, before!
Why not both?
That would just not bring in enough. Remember that this is their last resort to prevent collapse.
Those ads are really going to annoy me when I never start using that chat shit.
enshittification personified
Are these ads context dependent? I'd love to see what it would come up with for this.

Good. Hopefully it'll reduce usage and help speed its highly necessary death.
I'm sure Volkswagen and Hugo Boss will appreciate the research their ads are put next to.
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