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Re: by d_phase on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:05AM (#44246293)
You obviously haven't been A/B tested yet. I got very obvious advertisements in a super simple question I asked last week to ChatGPT. The question was "When was the last year it was really smokey in Canada" it answered in one paragraph, then gave me about 6 paragraphs of ads for air purifiers, masks etc.

I'd guess we're only 6-12 months out from a full advertisement takeover.

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Re: by sheiyei on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:14AM (#44246353)
It was a quote, which I failed to format in this app I use.
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Re: by Marazan on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @08:43AM (#44247025)
The simpler explanation is that ChatGPT is trained on webpages that have been SEO'd to death.

So you are just getting SEO'd pages (i.e ads) regurgitated to you.

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Re: by bombcar on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:37AM (#44247498)
This is of course, absolutely, master sahib boss man.

Have you considered buying a ChatGPT filter/scrubber to clean your results? Only $9.99 a month! Not available in all areas, not legal in most of the world.

;) and </s>

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Re: by bandoti on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:36AM (#44247494)
I think it’s time folks dust off their library cards :)

Or support an open source AI model.

I stopped using ChatGPT when it started littering my conversation with emojis. It acts like one of those overzealous kids on Barney.

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