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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 15 06:46:23 2025
    I’m having difficulty understanding this article <https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-ads-are-coming-to-your-favorite-ai-bots-and-youve-only-got-yourself-to-blame/>.

    Yes, deploying AI chatbots is expensive. It takes a lot of hardware on
    the cloud side, but more importantly, all that hardware consumes a lot
    of expensive electricity.

    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?

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Jun 16 19:20:05 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote at 06:46 this Sunday (GMT):
    I’m having difficulty understanding this article
    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-ads-are-coming-to-your-favorite-ai-bots-and-youve-only-got-yourself-to-blame/>.

    Yes, deploying AI chatbots is expensive. It takes a lot of hardware on
    the cloud side, but more importantly, all that hardware consumes a lot
    of expensive electricity.

    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?


    Not surprised.
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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jun 16 21:18:21 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> 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


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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Tue Jun 17 16:20:04 2025
    Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote at 01:18 this Tuesday (GMT):
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> 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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