AI paid for by Ads – the gpt-4o mini inflection point
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AI is cheaper than ever with OpenAI's latest announcement of gpt4-o mini. AI is so cheap now, that it's cheaper than the average ad impression.

The linked article does his math wrong - the ad revenue per page view is $0.00258, so the profit per page is actually $0.00207.

This will radically accelerate the problem of search results being full of AI-generated spam.

  • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    44·
    4 months ago

    i feel like there’s a treadmill here that they’re starting us all off upon. as search results rapidly become full of ai-generated spam the odds of a pageview rapidly go down. so the whole thing ends up being a bit like bitcoin mining, trying to find that exact right combination of seo blather to be the page that’s selected by the search algorithm for the precise prompt entered by one of the last goobers gullible enough to still be searching for useful information and then also somehow convinces that goober to click on the page in order to be inundated with ads and hallucinatory garbage. ad revenue per page view will fluctuate wildly based on speculation about market sentiment about new and innovative optimization schemes, reaching stellar heights of value even as it kills the internet entirely and everyone drops their phones and laptops and starts the butlerian jihad against our ai oppressors irl just like in that movie!

      • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        the CIA has brain worms so assume they have jumped on the hype.

        How long does it take to FOI or whatever it is over there?

        I look forward to dumps of “As an ai language model I cannot provide information on how to trick the government into funding dolphin sexperiments.”

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          4 months ago

          Surely this is just overusing the term “AI” when its more appropriate to use machine-learning here. The image recognition technology to read text has been trained on people doing captchas. All those recaptchas you did where it gave you 2? One was you giving them data on something their system couldn’t recognise and the other was them actually testing you. This became the technology to read handwritten and scanned text.

          Calling it AI is a stretch in my opinion. There’s no “intelligence”. We’ve just reached the point where they apply it to anything and everything if machine learning is involved in any way.

          • PointAndClique [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            4 months ago

            Yep exactly, that’s why I put it in quotes, because iirc in the episode itself they still call it ‘AI’ and I wanted to convey that yes, they are using that technology.