[bigallen]

This is so interesting. I have learned more from a years’s use of chatGPT than from two decades of googling. Yeah, AI has drawbacks. But AI has never displayed an ad to me and only once displayed a cookie banner, and that’s worth quite a bit to me

[fire_lake]

> I have learned more from a years’s use of chatGPT than from two decades of googling

I simply don’t believe you. The human mind can only take in information so fast.

[jprete]

Aside from the apples-to-oranges claim that a chatbots teaches you more than a search engine, it's extremely unlikely that AI will remain ad-free. Ads seem to be at a local minimum of the information economy and I don't see how chatbots would be immune to it.

[noman-land]

I have gotten great use from various AI tools but don't be naive. The "ads" are invisibly embedded in the training data and get expressed in the subtleties of the model's output. When you control the model and there's no transparency around what's in it, you can do whatever you want with the training data. This is only the beginning.