Re:LLMs Are Cheap
by handfuloflight on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:17PM
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> If that profit comes from advertising, and critically, if users don't expect advertising in their free LLMs, because they didn't see ads in generated output in the past, that will be very insidious.
Are the free LLM providers offering their service with a contractual obligation to the users that they will not add advertising to the outputs? If not, how is it insidious?
What definition of insidious are you using per https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insidious?
Weirdly, no part of that merriam-webster link includes the word "contract". I'm not sure you know how words work.
Re:LLMs Are Cheap
by handfuloflight on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:48PM
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Why does it need to include the word "contract"?
A lot of the companies offering LLM services are in a race gain market share and build expertise. Right now, they can burn through millions of dollars of VC money, with the expectation that they'll turn a profit at some point in the future. If that profit comes from advertising, and critically, if users don't expect advertising in their free LLMs, because they didn't see ads in generated output in the past, that will be very insidious.