This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Companies have already been SEOing LLMs for a few months now. There are companies who have a panel of participants who are willing to share their data, and this is then used to estimate what people might be searching on LLMs and now to optimise content so that it shows up on responses across LLMs.
Ads was the logical direction for LLMs and has always been the only pathway to any substantial revenue.
Rapid enshittification, people will just use on of the others on the long list of alternatives. I currently recommend either DeepSeek v3.2-Exp or Kimi K2 Thinking.
Those already contain ads for the CCP
True, if you ask about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and other things typically censored by the Chinese government they won't answer. But interestingly, there are variants that have been uncensored, and those models will answer openly if you use something like together.ai versus kimi.com. Because they are open source, they are easily uncensored.
Thanks, that’s nice to know.
This is a great way to drive users to competitors.
FYI https://www.deepseek.com/en and https://chat.qwen.ai/ don't have ads.
If you're not paying, you're the product. Even on Chinese services. Alibaba does train my favorite local models though (Qwen).
Both models are open source
Indeed, and I give them credit. China is unironically leading the world in scientific progress. I wouldn't recommend using their services though, for privacy reasons (same with the US).
There needs to be laws like yesterday that force tools to disclose if responses are influenced by ads.
Deepseek here i come
