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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by missedthecue on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:10AM (#35052155)
I've heard much fuss about 4), but i'm still skeptical. Google makes most their money on commercial searches such as "what is the best TV", or "where to buy football tickets", not "please do my homework". And AI will have a hard time returning superior results on the former, because many people are looking for human reviews rather than an AI output.

In this sense, Amazon ads will continue to a threaten Google, but not some future edition of ChatGPT.

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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by foepys on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:19AM (#35052205)
> human reviews rather than an AI output

AI will very soon be perfectly capable of generating human sounding reviews. It just needs to "dumb down" the tone a bit to be believable.

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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by missedthecue on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:35AM (#35053040)
But no one wants that. ChatGPT can already produce a good 500 word review of a TV, I can ask it to do that right now, but that's totally non-valuable.
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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by foepys on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:58AM (#35053201)
Definitely but would you be able to tell if a review you see is generated or written by a human?

We will have to face a reality where nothing on the internet can be trusted. Ironically traditional news outlets will probably become more relevant again.

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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by arky527 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:56AM (#35053533)
Unless those traditional news outlets use LLMs to write stories for them in order to keep up with the internet/lower salary cost
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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by DeathArrow on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:53AM (#35054753)
>In this sense, Amazon ads will continue to a threaten Google, but not some future edition of ChatGPT.

Maybe a future edition of ChatGPT can discern a real human review from a content farm returned by Google Search.

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