Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google

Re:Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in C... by ben_w on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:40AM (#34244104)

> Do people at Google know and acknowledge this? I mean that in a non-Upton Sinclair kind of way.

Almost certainly, though I don't know what you mean by "non-Upton Sinclair kind of way". SEO (and editing wikipedia to your advantage) has been a back-and-fourth struggle even before I finished university in 2006.

I think the current problem the eyeball-as-a-service sites (Facebook, Youtube, Google, Twitter etc.) have is their models of their audiences; certainly when I see how they classify me, they're way off — sports I don't care for, languages I can't speak, the politics of countries I don't live in.

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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in C... by barrkel on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:42AM (#34244842)

I actually prefer irrelevant ads; they're easier to ignore. To the degree that ads work, they're a distraction from my current task, whatever it is. Irrelevant ads are less of a distraction.

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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in C... by ben_w on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:13PM (#34248352)

Likewise, but from the ad agencies' perspective it's a problem. I think, not certain, that solving this would be the real end to the current market leaders.

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