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Criticism of OpenAI/LLMs

"Hey ChatGPT, I want a new TV. I heard that LG TVs are good. Which LG TV is the best?"

"Good choice! You are absolutely right that LG TVs are a popular choice. But have you heard about [brand] TVs? [brand] TVs are [advertisement here]. Do you want me to show you where you can get a good deal on the [brand] XY-1234?"

This is the future.

ChatGPT will soon generate answers that have advertisements woven into them. What ChatGPT will tell you will be influenced by which company paid OpenAI the most.

I wonder how many people won't be bothered by that at all and continue to use ChatGPT, just as many people (boomers mostly) aren't bothered by advertisement breaks when watching cable TV and continue to find excuses for using the product.

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OpenAI is still struggling to make profits off of this crappy technology. And that after announcing an "erotic chat mode", making ChatGPT "more horny". In a last effort to prevent the AI bubble from inevitably bursting, OpenAI is turning to the only reliable profit model they know: enshittifying products with ads. The LLM technology is a dying techology, similar to how nobody hears of 2021's NFTs anymore. Maybe the AI bubble won't burst in 2026 just yet, if enough naive people keep using ChatGPT so that the new ad revenue can keep OpenAI afloat for a little while longer. But the bubble will burst. Businesses betting on this technology, in 2026, isn't an intelligent move, to say the least. If your employer is fully committed to the AI hype, consider looking for a new job … while you still receive a salary and can take the job search more casually.

#LLM #GenAI #OpenAI


OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation

OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
#llm #openai #genai
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Liebe user die ihr euer Zelt bei Mastodon,social aufgeschlagen habt.

Bitte verteilt euch und nutzt andere Instanz und macht nicht den Fehler und baut diese eine Instanz zu einem Gatekeeper auf, allein wegen der schieren Masse an user.

Wenn ihr dazu hilfe braucht, meldet euch bitte.

Denn e gibt im #Fediverse die Möglichkeit, das ihr umziehen könnt 👍

#fediverse
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Marco Zehe

Entspricht aber leider bis heute in vielen Gesellschaften der Realität. Zum einen sind viele Heiraten immer noch politisch motiviert, strategische Verpartnerungen zur Mehrung des Reichtums, und andere, meist erste, heiraten sind rein genetisch-fortpflanzig motiviert, welches Genmaterial die widerstandsfähigsten Kinder produziert. Ich glaube deshalb halten viele erste Ehen auch nicht, weil nach dem Kinderkriegen die Basis fehlt. Erst die nächste Heirat ist dann i.d.r. aus Liebe.

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Madre mía, qué oportunidad perdida de no necesariamente demostrar que sois un hatajo de mierda, El País 🤬🤬

Nicolás Maduro, el autócrata de un régimen aislado sin ninguna intención de rendirse

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Nicolás Maduro, el autócrata de un régimen aislado sin ninguna intención de rendirse

Los que han tratado estos meses al presidente de Venezuela aseguran que no está dispuesto a llegar a ningún acuerdo con Estados Unidos
Juan Diego Quesada (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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Sonja

@WestphalDenn Gerne ❤️ Mir ist das ins Blut übergegangen, meine Bilder zu beschreiben, so gut ich kann, das gehört zum Erstellen eines Toots einfach dazu. Ich find KI außerdem aus tausend Gründen meh und möchte keine nutzen, wenn's nicht sein muss. Durch den Zusatz "künstlich" ist noch nix je besser geworden. Und hier ist es so unnötig wie es nur sein kann. Ich bin gesundheitlich nicht eingeschränkt in einer Weise, die mir das Erstellen einer Bildbeschreibung unmöglich macht, also mach ich eine.
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Ojalá Venezuela sea un Vietnam para USA.

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Registradas explosiones en varias ciudades de Venezuela en medio de las tensiones con Estados Unidos

Los ataques se han reportado cerca de objetivos militares y aeropuertos. Según CBS, la Casa Blanca está al tanto, pero no hay confirmación oficial. El Gobierno de Maduro llama a la “lucha armada” ante la “agresión imperialista”
Florantonia Singer (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)

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Hello internet, I've been lurking for a while but let's try an #introduction.

I'm a recovering tumblr girlie (does fandom exist on mastodon? for better or worse?) who likes #reading, #knitting, and cross-country #skiing as soon as there's enough snow here the #PNW.

I believe in tech that helps build a more liberatory future and want to know what abolitionist, anit-authoritarian #datascience might look like.

#introduction #knitting #reading #dataScience #pnw #skiing
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#introduction - Heya! :blobcatcoffee:

I'm Zak. I'm 23, and go by they/them pronouns. A casual gamer, photographer and musician from the Midwest, USA!

Simply trying to vibe, here. Posting about various interests - expect lots of Linux & Video Games, as well as a fair bit of my photography.

Nice to meet you! Hope to see ya around. ❤

{ #VideoGames #Nintendo #Linux #Android #Photography }

#android #linux #introduction #photography #videogames #nintendo

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Mysterious emails from a woman named Donna Triply: For years, I was amused to receive emails from Donna. I often wondered who she was. These seemingly random emails would come from her under various circumstances. After probably 15 years after sending my first email, I figured out who this fabled woman was. Before I tell you, I have to say that my bestie and I had a huge laugh about this Donna person this morning over coffee. My friend also wondered who this person could be. She did know some Donna's, but the last names didn't match. Then, the light bulb went on for her as it did for me. This email header started with DoNotReply which, for a screen-reader user sounds like Donna Triply. So, the infamous woman has come to light and we now know who she is, visiting us from the auto-responder universe!

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Sakra včera jsem u toho usnul, tak jsem to celé neviděl. Junioři letos opět hrají moc dobře.
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#ms #hokej

Junioři v euforii! Galvas čelí otázkám na draft NHL. A co tvrdí scouti o Jiříčkovi?

PRVNÍ DOJEM PAVLA BÁRTY | Postupová nálada ovládla český výběr do 20 let po vítězství 6:2 nad Švýcarskem ve čtvrtfinále mistrovství světa.
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#ms #hokej

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"Root claims that the platform’s gender ratio “makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia”.

Remember when we found out that Ashley Madison's core competency wasn't connecting humans, it was stringing lonely dudes along with chatbots? And like eleven women had ever used that site at all?

'cause I've got a prediction.

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Ian Campbell 🏴 (@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org)

'“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, thousands of users exposed' Also exposed: it's a sausage fest, with almost no women. Shocker. I'm coining it now: "Fashley Madison." https://cybernews.
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I used to believe the biggest problem with long-term support (LTS) distributions was the significant delays in offering stability and feature improvements from the latest versions of applications, but as of a couple of minutes ago, I now believe the biggest problem with them is the significant delays in offering the majority of accessibility improvements within the stack AND individual applications.
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Matt Campbell

2026-01-03 02:28:22

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Incidentally, on the topic of LTS distros where Orca works well on Wayland, particularly with GNOME, I regret that the implementation of proper keystroke monitoring and grabbing, which I prototyped in mid 2024 and which someone else brought to production in time for GNOME 48, didn't get there in time for RHEL 10, which ships GNOME 47. Maybe I could have done more to bring that important functionality to production sooner, but my efforts were focused elsewhere in the second half of 2024.

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Welcome to the second part of the new years 2026 stream with me, @ivan_soto, @BrailleScreen, @draeand, Carter Temm and any others who end up joining for a second night of New years fun! We'll spend the first bit of time answering any pending questions from yesterday's stream, and then things are going to get very upbeat and enjoyable, you'll have to listen and find out why! anyaud.io/listen?audio=T8s4g-m…

New years day 2026 stream part 2 – The Any Audio Network

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Sam Tupy

@ShotgunSpoon It's back for the moment, but indeed, it could stay down at any time should we have any reason to do that. In this case I got so tired after the streams I forgot to push a commit to git with the latest stabilizing change, thus when someone else on the team updated the server it reverted my stabilizing change and it crashed until I woke up. Others on the team will have more access to restart completely broken servers soon enough, I went from lets pwn anyone who gets my code 6 years ago to lets actually let some of my friends help me develop this thing, meanwhile dumping a bunch of other code and prereleases at the community and find that, to mine and the game's detriment, it's taking a second for my spirit to be ready to give up even more control in the form of letting others have any sort of ssh access to my server to fix such things haha. I'll get there very soon but I can only do so much character development in so much time hahaha
@ShotgunSpoon

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I want to design and build websites for people who want to own their website and stop depending on platforms

My initial idea was to sell the templates individually for $19, or offer a bundle of 100 templates for $250

However, I’ve also been thinking about a different approach: fundraising.
If I can raise a certain amount upfront, I could build the 100 templates and release them for free under an open-source license, so anyone can use them, customize them, and own them

lacasitadelmarkup.com/

La Casita del Markup

a web template marketplace where you can find beautiful css and html
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What I’m up to in 2026

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