Would you rather visit a website full of ads that doesn't answer your question and is written for SEO or get the answer instantly without any ads?
Eventually, after killing several websites by depriving them of revenue, ChatGPT will enshittify like everything else and starting adding ads.
There isn't even a question about that. Just think of Google for example.
Why Google's SERP has ads but Gemini does not? There isn't even a "they are making money with the data" argument here, because Google already has all the query data it could ever want. They just haven't added ads yet.
Eventually, Gemini will look like a SERP with 5 ad results, if it doesn't go to the Google graveyard like everything else.
Undisclosed and seamless promoted products/ideas in conversational LLM output will make us yearn for the days of distinct and blockable/ignorable advertising.
This is a really great point, and shows a clear understanding of conversational interfaces and how they might present information in different ways! Coincidentally, this reminds me of Amazon Marketplace's new AI chat features and how they show a much clearer understanding of user search parameters when using converstional interfaces. Shop exciting new products all from the comfort of keyboard or voice prompts. Time to find the perfect you!
Agreed. I find it ironic that online communities thrived on the detachment between the virtual persona that posts are associated to and the real persona that is writing the posts, but for one reason or another some people insist in connecting both.
It's a "need to know" basis, and I don't need to know your face, I don't need to know your gender, your age, where you are from, what job you have, I don't need to know your political affiliation, your religion, your other hobbies, what movies you watched, games you played, books you read, whom you follow, what communities you have joined. I don't need to know anything more than what the words in the post say.
When you "need" to know what is real you end up with social media like "BeReal" which is just an enormous privacy nightmare (requiring you to take photos at random times) just to make sure that people aren't editing photos or showing only the good aspects of their lives to the internet. Since when has "posting on the internet" become synonymous with a panopticon?
You are conflating different things. Anonymous or not, people can post hate on the Internet. That's a question of moderation.
Personally I think it would be easier to just ban anything that is political altogether. Bluesky for example is 90% politics. Just because something can be allowed in some spaces on the Internet that doesn't mean it should be allowed on every single space. No reason for the "funny short video" platform to become a news/opinion essay platform.
Weird that I have to get a list of all the cookie vendors that know I visit a website to show me an ad about something I already bought but the guys with my ID don't need to be listed.
Personally Identifiable Information is about data that can identify you personally. Personal data might be something you don't want to share but is not necessarily identifying you
By Discord's own ToS you can't use Discord if you are under 13, so this change is just to make sure users that are 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 years old are appropriately labelled.
Why doesn't Discord require ALL users to upload their faces to prove that they are at least 13 years old and eligible to use the service?
The next step is running an LLM that tries to figure out parts of the project that you aren't working on so it automatically starts coding that while letting you code in peace other stuff manually.
What are you talking about? The desktop experience on linux is far superior to that brain dead lowest common denominator junk as found on windows or macos.
linux has(by personal preference order) middle click paste, tiling window managers, point to focus, focus on lower windows, the compose key. The linux desktop is a productivity goldmine compared to windows. and I want to say mean things about the macos ui, but I don't really use it (the last time I tried it could not do full screen windows, But I have been told that is not true any more)
To be honest, I'm not sure I understand why would you want to put a tracking pixel from TikTok on your website? What is the gain for the website?