Hitzig did not call advertising itself immoral. Instead, she argued that the nature of the data at stake makes ChatGPT ads especially risky. Users have shared medical fears, relationship problems, and religious beliefs with the chatbot, she wrote, often “because people believed they were talking to something that had no ulterior agenda.” She called this accumulated record of personal disclosures “an archive of human candor that has no precedent.”
She also drew a direct parallel to Facebook’s early history, noting that the social media company once promised users control over their data and the ability to vote on policy changes. Those pledges eroded over time, Hitzig wrote, and the Federal Trade Commission found that privacy changes Facebook marketed as giving users more control actually did the opposite.
that’s fine. ChatGPT is 100 times easier to quit and forget about than Facebook. ChatGPT serves zero benefit for most people in their daily lives. It’s extremely easy to stop using a tool that constantly hallucinates solutions.
I’m not that sure for that I see people using it for literally everything
Seriously. As someone who only did a few prompts and chats when it first came out, I do not understand what people are getting so much use out of. I guess they just mostly trust the bullshit it spits out so it seems like it saves time?
pretty much. you’ll see it first hand with the vibe coding shit. sure the basics will work but none of it will scale, it’ll be full of exploits, and just garbage all around. But most people simply don’t know better and trust whatever the LLM spits out.
I mean people hail Claude as the best out there but if you know any better and you’ve spent any time with it then you’d know it’s 100% useless. not a single solution it spits out these days is correct. and Claude Code has become noticeably worse.
I use AI for;
- Translation
- Grammar
- Text editing
- Categorization
- Summarization
- OCR
I don’t use AI for;
- Life, health, finance, legal… advice
- Chatting
- Quick answering
- Researching
I wouldn’t worry about the Facebook path.
ChatGPT will never make as much money as Facebook.
ChatGPT is much more likely to lose as much money as Facebook makes.
I’d argue when advanced enough, they’d be able to replace search engines, do shopping for you, and automate some jobs. If they find a way to monopolize, I think they could. I don’t think they will, I think there will be a market bubble first. But some AI company at some point will definitely be able to replace/disrupt the market.
Well im definitely not the first person that points out that you can’t ask an ai for an opinion anymore (of coarse about nothing important) because it could answer with an ad
You could probably tell the computer it‘s a left radical marxist before asking something and it will spare you the ads. This technology is stupidly easy to „hack“.
I mean they probably know that and maybe put a system in place so you can’t roleplay your way out of it. Idk every 5. Query gets processed by an separated agent. Or that shit gets hard coded and if it doesn don’t it doesn’t get good boi points or something in that ballpark
What system? It‘s an LLM. A blackbox. Any accomplishments regarding cybersecurity are rendered useless with LLMs. That‘s why you should never use agent based applications for important things. Not now. Not ever.
You can always insert prompt your way out of any guard rails if you are persistent enough. It might become too bothersome at some point to use it on a daily basis but it will never be completely fixed and right now it‘s fairly easy and there are plenty of free alternatives.
It‘s also unlikely you‘ll get banned by removing ads this way. Websites already detect if you have an adblock installed but the only ones who actively try to do something about it are a dying breed like newspapers. If Google or Facebook aren‘t banning users for using adblockers en masse then other AI companies won‘t ban you for a little anti-capitalist role play.
I have right to decide what shouldn’t show on my screen.
