Comment by ecshafer

2 days ago

I think the ads will be turned on, inevitably.

I hope the porn and gambling aren't turned on, but they will be. Probably under spin off companies to shield the brand, but using the tech.

I am suspect that ads will be able to cover the cost of inference, much less model building, salaries, product development, etc. The ad industry is built upon _and priced for_ websites that return results for virtually zero cost. That isn't going to be true for rendering AI.

You are more attracted to ads than porn?!

  • Define "attracted". I believe porn and gambling both do incredible amounts of damage to society. Ads probably do some damage to society, though I can recognize some benefits in being able to advertise and market products and services. I don't believe there is any benefit to the other two.

if I had my druthers, we'd leave the ads but get the porn and gambling.

two out of three of those require me to want to do them for them to affect my life.