Moreover, the bias could be arbitrarily subtle. This is something that really worries me about black box AI systems.
I‘d argue that, at some point, this behavior will surface enough that it gets interesting for government to take a look at it. At least in my
country, ads need to be labeled as such - I don’t think this is going to change.
The entire business model of tech is to fly under the radar of regulations. They can't even force the bastards to stop tormenting us with cookie pop-ups, i seriously doubt the government will do much.
What marketing department on earth is going to pay for an ad campaign so subtle that they can't even tell if it's running?
Ad budgets aren't bottomless. People making decisions about them have a lot of options for where to spend. They want provable attribution so they can tell which channel is giving them the most bang for the buck. If that exists, then the ads will be discernible.
But what if you don't see distinct ads? LLM advertising can just be paid-for bias in the generated content.