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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by kilroy123 on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:29PM (#46977929)
To be fair, I'd rather have smart people pursue AI and LLMs than ad tech.
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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by yifanl on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:32PM (#46977973)
They're one and the same. https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by dgb23 on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:33PM (#46978002)
That's mixing up the tool with what it is used for.
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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by throwawayqqq11 on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:16PM (#46979411)
Consider LLMs as the recent iteration to monetize free content, like ads do too, and you are not far from seeing the approaching AI-first enshittoscene. No matter the smart engineers altruistic goals, ROI has to be met.
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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by kakacik on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:49PM (#46978244)
Ad tech is annoying at worst, it doesn't take literally your job and most of job market with it. Without any seemingly easy way to move to fields which are booming so overall it would stay the same.

I hate ads with passion for past 20 years and (very) actively avoid them at all costs, but I'd take those over what world llms seem to be bringing in soon.

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