There are many people who have been betting against AI for many reasons. The main reason in my opinion is because it is disrupting the media ecosystem and ad revenue that these companies were relying on here. They want to return to how things were but that simply cannot happen with ChatGPT.
This is not just an app but whole new electronic ecosystem.
OpenAI has recently stated that the company is making money quicker than at the beginning of the internet age.
Why?
It’s because it is building an ecosystem which goes beyond the internet’s original promise.
The information which we originally put online was not done with efficiently and thought. We were sometimes competent but many people were still treating it as a novelty here.
ChatGPT can give the internet new life which it didn’t have before. Copilot Tasks, another important part of the Copilot Ecosystem can automate many tasks and make using your computer easier.
The Windows interface is full of bloatware. ChatGPT allows for users to spend their time on other tasks instead of wasting it on navigating through so many menus.
It isn’t just a product but infrastructure just as the Telegraph network and Telephone networks were. The difference is that it is not yet in the hands of one company such as Western Union which had a monopoly by the 1860s era in telegrams.
We are building for the future not the past and that is why ChatGPT has gotten people to support it here.
Google has made a fortune on its Google Ads platform. Billions of dollars of ad revenue went straight from newspapers and TV and right into the search engine’s wallet. However, it is clear that this approach is now outdated and some change is needed in here.
Enter ChatGPT and its approach to ads.
I have been using the ChatGPT Go subscription for some time and the ads that it gives are more related to your search queries than I have seen on traditional search engines.
As I explained in this previous post here, ads on the platform appear towards the end of a query. This is different from say the older model where ads were just covering most of the first page of the search. Google is also putting its AI overview front in center when your search query has easily accessible information here.
This is a better model for ads and people will actually be productive instead of this scrolling culture we have had on the internet for so long here.
The issue is that much of the social capital of the internet is not in the same quantity as it was once before. We have a country which is reactionary and trying to ban cell phones in schools. We need to be using AI in order to enhance our economy and culture here. This is the approach we should be taking here.
I think that ChatGPT’s ads will not be intrusive in here. There are some who think that OpenAI has betrayed their userbase; they have to remember that this is an expensive website to run and ads will help them with the costs in here.
My experience with ChatGPT Ads
I am a Sagittarius, so I am heavily using ChatGPT for asking abstract questions about philosophy. This sort of query isn’t really going to give you ads. On some occasions, it will show ads based on my conversations, but this is generally related to what I am talking about here. These are ads which have a purpose beyond just being an ad. Alot of sites, especially smaller ones, tend to have ads that do not have anything to do with the topic on the site.
ChatGPT should make advertising on the internet more relevant to the consumer and more profitable for the companies using these platforms to advertise their products and concepts.
These ads are not random but are shown as result of the conversation you have.
Sometimes they show up quickly, other times you have to have a conversation to get an ad in the chat here.
Generally speaking, I notice something specific about when the ads show up here: Asking about the purchasing of a certain item is bound to display an ad more often than talking about abstract concepts.
This makes sense.
Purchasing items is really want you wants ads front and center. Most advertising is really just to sell goods not ideas. Of course, you can promote ideas and sites, but the main emphasis is on the selling of goods in here.
This is what ChatGPT should be trying to achieve with their ads. They need to be precise and not too wide. Google’s sponsored ads would just take up the whole screen. With ChatGPT, advertising can actually make people on the internet more efficient instead of wasting time scrolling to their next destination in here.
ChatGPT was free of ads for some three years before they began implementing advertising.
The addition of ads may be an issue for some people. We all have seen great platforms being affected by too many ads clogging up our experiences. However, I think this is a great way for the site to start making some money on top of their subscriptions.
What is important that such ads are placed on the platform and are respectful of the users rather Google’s approach. They need to leverage their huge user base so that the AI boom is sustainable and helps to revitalize cyberspace which has been under strain from all sorts of issues and stagnation in the ideas here.
I had been subscribed to ChatGPT’s cheapest tier, GO, and I began getting ads on my queries recently. Here is how these ads appear.
These ads appear at the end of query not above it. In comparison to the traditional search engines, this is less in your face and these ads relate to your actual questions here. I got this query when I am talking about AI generated images, which I use heavily on ChatGPT here.
I think that this is better than having every search page full of sponsored links while you are not able to get to your desired results here. Ads need to be more useful and help people save time so they purchase items that they actually want to have.
An interesting aspect to these ads is that you can ask ChatGPT about these ads that appear here. This is something that wasn’t available on the older search engines here. Now you can get better context as what those ads are.
What is important here is that these advertisements are not too obnoxious and are relevant to the queries.
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