More Google defense BS.
Ask ChatGPT how many combat veterans develop PTSD. You’ll get an answer, with no splash of advertising on the page.
Ask ChatGPT at how many amputations there are in a year. It will answer that, too. With no advertising.
Don’t you people see what is happening? ChatGPT is not taking advertising revenue away from Google. It is destroying advertising revenue altogether — and Google will likely do ANYTHING to prevent the eradication of their entire industry.
Even Bing is getting this wrong. “We’re adding ChatGPT to Bing!!!” Nobody wants ChatGPT in Bing. What ChatGPT does is erase Bing, too.
You ask a question, you get an answer, with no advertising.
Google is planting all this BS about religious questions, political questions, ideological questions, and trying to establish the attitude that the answers are not valid.
But they are. I am using it more and more for things that actually define day to day concrete needs. You should, too. Watch Google twist and burn, and just remember, they were funding Democrats.
That’s not it’s objective right now.
The ads will come later, and I’m not so sure that is it’s over-arching mission either.
Right now the objective is to expand it’s reach and influence.
For many of it’s first years, youtube had no ads, and didn’t ask for any subscriptions. How did it make money? streaming video (specially back in the 2000s is not cheap. It requires a lot of infrastructure and a lot of bandwidth. It was heavily seeded to grow, and it did.
ChatGPT requires users to log in to use it.
Why?
Why can’t you do searches and request information or output without it knowing your identity?
I think the objective is to build up very detail profiles on everyone. It needs to grow first. It needs to store everything you ask for.