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Are the ads gonna be on the side or product placements in the chatbot's answers?

I don’t understand the business logic behind all of these investments in LLMs if the revenues are supposed come from ads. Are they expecting to attract more ad spending than is already flowing into the tech sector?

Having to hit 1 billion dollars to make your money back is just... stupid.

VCs & the companies they back have always just lied and pursued regulatory capture & monopoly protection. It's religion; money is just staying alive. IPOs are health packs for them, not outcome. They're forcing their preferred future on everyone and don't care what humanity loses along the way.

There's a finite amount of ad spend in the world. The rise of online advertising cut the legs out from network television, radio, magazines, newspapers, junk mail, even comic books were full of ads. Google and Facebook are not going to fund something that directly competes with their core business.

I work for a hardware store, and the national co-op brand we're part of made ~$9 billion in revenue in 2022. These guys are fucking cooked.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of them committed sudoku. Shameful display.

Maybe it is the killer app... just not in the way they thought.

Fastest POSER FALL of all-time. Beats Worldcom, Enron, FTX

Can the bubble pop now?

The ad revenue might be even less in practice, given ad blockers will catchup for the web interfaces for sure, and for Electron apps, will be some other alternatives to cleanup the traffic

It’s also funny that eventually, even the most “world changing” tech companies are forced into the same business model that Ben Franklin used in the 1750s.

Hitting 5% of forecast ad revenue would be both 1) pathetic and 2) very funny.

Right before AI, they were killing off all the voice assistants (especially Alexa) because they didn't make any money. So these new chatbots that cost more to run were going to be magically profitable?

This is somehow how I found out that one of Google's product is actually called Google AI Mode and not Gemini. That whole company is so beyond parody. Absolutely nothing customer-facing that they can't make confusing as shit.