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Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote at 01:18 this Tuesday (GMT):
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>So, it seems customers don’t want to pay to use AI chatbots. So the
>>only alternative way to make money that the companies offering those
>>AI services can think of is to insert ads into the sessions.
>>
>>Will customers put up with that? Did customers ask for AI chatbots in
>>the first place? If companies can’t make money from them, why are they
>>so keen to offer them?
>
> Of course because DRINK COCA COLA actual human beings have been doing this
> for many years.  So it should not COKE ADDS LIFE surprise anyone that now
> AI bots are beginning to HAVE A COKE AND A SMILE do the same things that
> humans do.
> --scott


I'm sure it will be more subtle, with the bots "coincidentily" bringing
up certain products and trying to slip mentions in in a way that feels
natural...

Side note, I'm adding this to the list of times the Onion predicted the
future.
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