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Google’s AI search results are already getting ads (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can we ask the AI to remove/omit the ads?

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LLMs can't even distinguish properly between a fruit with green flesh and red skin vs. green skin and red flesh, and you expect them to distinguish between ads and content?

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The ad is the content, from Google's viewpoint.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My guess is that the ads in question are not the ones that Google wants, but rather LLMO (like SEO cancer, except for LLM results).

But yes, if someone paid Google enough, their ad "magically" becomes content, no disagreement.

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Read the article, the ads are part of Google programmes/partnerships with advertisers and are meant to present buyable products that are supposedly relevant to the user's query.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

I read the article. My point is that the ads won't be just the ones that the article describes, and clearly separated from the content; eventually they'll become part of the content.

[–] aev 8 points 11 months ago

Sure! It won’t comply, though.