Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries

The A.I. bubble is going to pop at any moment now 😆 most companies are figuring out they have created a monster without any regulation/safety switch.

The A.I. bubble is going to pop at any moment now 😆 most companies are figuring out they have created a monster without any regulation/safety switch.

And it can't happen soon enough.

The A.I. bubble is going to pop at any moment now 😆 most companies are figuring out they have created a monster without any regulation/safety switch.

A stupid monster. ChatGPT can't remember basic things that have already been established within the same chat thread, and I've tested them with some real-world tests for humans, given the same guidelines and questions and they only get about 40% correct.

The problem with monetizing LLMs is that they're not that useful. They're basically only good at summarizing things you've given them, and even then they regularly misinterpret, hallucinate or remove critical information. By the time you've double and triple checked their work, and corrected it, you could have just done it all yourself.

They're just not worth paying for at the moment. Their video and photo generation is getting better, but their basic logic, reasoning and understanding is not improving at all, in some cases I think it might be getting worse.

A stupid monster. ChatGPT can't remember basic things that have already been established within the same chat thread, and I've tested them with some real-world tests for humans, given the same guidelines and questions and they only get about 40% correct.

The problem with monetizing LLMs is that they're not that useful. They're basically only good at summarizing things you've given them, and even then the regularly misinterpret, hallucinate or remove critical information. By the time you've double and triple checked their work, and corrected it, you could have just done it all yourself.

They're just not worth paying for at the moment. Their video and photo generation is getting better, but their basic logic, reasoning and understanding is not improving at all, in some cases I think it might be getting worse.

Exactly that.

I note that you say that they're good at summarising stuff then immediately discredit it, so I'd argue they are no use for that too.

Anyway it gets worse as this post describes well...




People are tuned to the science fiction definition of AI when in fact we have LLMs which are statistical ******** generators.

The only reason they are as successful as they are is due to the relatively high level of incompetence of people who use them and the marketing job.

Surprised by the number of people here on a tech forum that actually think AI is going away. There has never been a technology that has gone from ~ unused to essential in so short period for so many users. That has occurred in a single year, even for the technologically uninclined. Hoping it away is simply silly, head in the sand behavior.

Are the security concerns real, absolutely. Are the market bubble concerns real? Likely, and to what degree we'll find out. Is AI going away? Absolutely not.

Companies like Anthropic see less than 20% of their revenue from individual users who would potentially be looking at advertising. Most is enterprise. Google/deep mind usage of their AI is interwoven into all of their products and is not directly reliant on consumer spend for the lion share of what they're doing. OpenAI is an outlier there as they are largely consumer based right now. Focusing on monetizing that one segment is an interesting sidenote but far from the big picture.

I don't see anything saying it's going away, just that it's a bubble. Dot.com was a bubble, and the web didn't go away...and I don't see any industry, outside of tech, where AI is "essential". Not everyone works in tech; I don't. Just a guess, obviously, but I think around 10% of the current crop of AI companies will still be around in 5 years, and the survivors likely won't be pure AI providers, like Google, for example.

Now if someone can come with an equivalent usable system that doesn't require the power of a thousand suns, and enough hardware to build death star, they will be the winner....The current direction of LLMs is unsustainable for a multitude of reasons, and the quicker it dies, the better.

Surprised by the number of people here on a tech forum that actually think AI is going away. There has never been a technology that has gone from ~ unused to essential in so short period for so many users. That has occurred in a single year, even for the technologically uninclined. Hoping it away is simply silly, head in the sand behavior.

Are the security concerns real, absolutely. Are the market bubble concerns real? Likely, and to what degree we'll find out. Is AI going away? Absolutely not.

Companies like Anthropic see less than 20% of their revenue from individual users who would potentially be looking at advertising. Most is enterprise. Google/deep mind usage of their AI is interwoven into all of their products and is not directly reliant on consumer spend for the lion share of what they're doing. OpenAI is an outlier there as they are largely consumer based right now. Focusing on monetizing that one segment is an interesting sidenote but far from the big picture.