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I’m having difficulty understanding this article <https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-ads-are-coming-to-your-favorite-ai-bots-and-youve-only-got-yourself-to-blame/>.

Yes, deploying AI chatbots is expensive. It takes a lot of hardware on
the cloud side, but more importantly, all that hardware consumes a lot
of expensive electricity.

So, it seems customers don’t want to pay to use AI chatbots. So the
only alternative way to make money that the companies offering those
AI services can think of is to insert ads into the sessions.

Will customers put up with that? Did customers ask for AI chatbots in
the first place? If companies can’t make money from them, why are they
so keen to offer them?
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 06:46 this Sunday (GMT):

I’m having difficulty understanding this article
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-ads-are-coming-to-your-favorite-ai-bots-and-youve-only-got-yourself-to-blame/>.

Yes, deploying AI chatbots is expensive. It takes a lot of hardware on
the cloud side, but more importantly, all that hardware consumes a lot
of expensive electricity.

So, it seems customers don’t want to pay to use AI chatbots. So the
only alternative way to make money that the companies offering those
AI services can think of is to insert ads into the sessions.

Will customers put up with that? Did customers ask for AI chatbots in
the first place? If companies can’t make money from them, why are they
so keen to offer them?

Not surprised.
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Not surprised.

They force that AI sh¡t upon us and we shall pay for it even if not
using it at all.

That's like "FreeTV"!

Full of ADs and we all pay them as the ADs' costs are added to the price
of the stuff we buy.

So I'll pay for AI despite not using it!

Like the "FreeTV" I do not consume.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

So, it seems customers don’t want to pay to use AI chatbots. So the
only alternative way to make money that the companies offering those
AI services can think of is to insert ads into the sessions.

Will customers put up with that? Did customers ask for AI chatbots in
the first place? If companies can’t make money from them, why are they
so keen to offer them?

Of course because DRINK COCA COLA actual human beings have been doing this
for many years. So it should not COKE ADDS LIFE surprise anyone that now
AI bots are beginning to HAVE A COKE AND A SMILE do the same things that
humans do.
--scott
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Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote at 01:18 this Tuesday (GMT):

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

So, it seems customers don’t want to pay to use AI chatbots. So the
only alternative way to make money that the companies offering those
AI services can think of is to insert ads into the sessions.

Will customers put up with that? Did customers ask for AI chatbots in
the first place? If companies can’t make money from them, why are they
so keen to offer them?

Of course because DRINK COCA COLA actual human beings have been doing this for many years. So it should not COKE ADDS LIFE surprise anyone that now
AI bots are beginning to HAVE A COKE AND A SMILE do the same things that humans do.
--scott

I'm sure it will be more subtle, with the bots "coincidentily" bringing
up certain products and trying to slip mentions in in a way that feels natural...

Side note, I'm adding this to the list of times the Onion predicted the
future.
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