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Re:I Received an AI Email by lukan on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @08:37AM (#40865374)
"Putting man on the moon or ecommerce"

The comparison here is between moonlanding and advertisement. So I choose the moon obviously.

Ecommerce can work just the same without LLM augmented personalized ads, or no advertisement at all. If a law would ban all commercial advertisement - people still need to buy things. But who would miss the ads?

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Re:I Received an AI Email by sebastiennight on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:31PM (#40901633)
To complement your argument, I once was invited to speak at an event in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and was astonished to learn that outdoors advertising is _banned_ in that city.

Yet somehow people have still been buying mattresses, cars, and laundry detergent.

I can't say I missed the ads one minute during my trip.

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