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Re:The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 by bitshiftfaced on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:50PM (#35156602)
It seems particularly bad lately. The pattern I've noticed is:

* A totally pointless introduction paragraph, devoid of info.

* Big ad

* A sort of teaser sentence in large font so that it appears to be the length of a paragraph. High noise to information ratio.

* Larger ad that loads as you scroll, so you're more likely to accidentally hit it

* Another sentence with high noise to info ratio.

* Repeat.

I think one of the SEO perks of this pattern is how it takes forever to find the information that you know must be somewhere on the website, so users seem more "engaged" because they are scrolling and spending more time visiting the site.

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Re:The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 by topicseed on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:49PM (#35157325)
Also generates more ad impressions as you scroll and see these ads.
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Re:The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 by pmoriarty on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:29PM (#35162464)
Looks like Google has turned into AltaVista.
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Re:The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 by MichaelMoser123 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @01:28AM (#35164285)
You made my day with that comment!
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Re:The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 by MichaelMoser123 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @03:44AM (#35165112)
not yet, you need to 'join in the waitlist' and be granted access to the 'new bing' - otherwise no access to the chat mode.
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