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How many ads-per-second will Jarvis serve?

In all seriousness I firmly believe they’ll embrace ads in AI responses and I see zero reason to think they wouldn’t.

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The endgame is undisclosed promotional content seamlessly inserted into algorithmic output. And of course this will be too indirect and obfuscated to be regulated. If you think lack of corporate accountability is bad now, wait until all reputation and liability have been fully laundered to AI.

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Couldn't regulators simply target the other end? As in, denying businesses the right to "buy AI generated ad space"? Or denying ad companies a license to include seamless ads in AI generated output?

Billboards on the highway are limited in scope due to safety and other reasons. A billboard can't have mechanical arms that swing about causing driver distraction. If "information safety" is becoming a thing, the equivalent of "no mechanical arms on billboards" might be enforced on AI generators? Or am I suggesting a remedy worse than the problem is solves?