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Re:I Received an AI Email by madamelic on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @07:26AM (#40864921)
> Enough of us will get pissed off that we will develop AI agents that sit between us and the internet.

Until _that_ company gets overrun by MBAs who are profit-driven then they start injecting ads into the results.

It will come in the vein of "we are personalizing the output and improving responses by linking you with vendors that will solve your problems".

Re:I Received an AI Email by echelon on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @07:30AM (#40864942)
There will be a uBlock Origin for that.
Re:I Received an AI Email by sebastiennight on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:25PM (#40901617)
I think GP's comment describes the business model of AdBlock / AdBlock Plus / Ghostery to a tee, and they collectively seem to be bigger in usage and notoriety than uBlock.
Re:I Received an AI Email by mostlysimilar on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @11:28AM (#40866935)
> Until _that_ company gets overrun by MBAs who are profit-driven then they start injecting ads into the results.

Found companies with people that share your values. Hire people that share your values. Reject the vampires. Build things for people.

Re:I Received an AI Email by pixl97 on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @01:17PM (#40868011)
Unfortunately it turns out that at the end of the day one of the most common values is the love of massive piles of money. Vampires don't catch on fire in sunlight like storybook villains, they will invite themselves in, sidle up beside you, and be your best friend. Then in the moment you are weak they will plunge their fangs in.

Competing with bad actors is very, very hard. They will be fat with investor money, they will give their services away, and commonly they are not afraid to do things like DDOS to raise your costs of operations.

Re:I Received an AI Email by webninja on Thursday July 04, 2024 @01:45AM (#40872598)
Someone has to pay off the $1 Trillion per year in Interest on the U.S. Federal Debt. Who’s that going to be? Either it’s them or it’s you. At least your grandparents got to live a nice life.