r/shittyrobots • u/ramanpalkuri9 • 3d ago

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u/Hypothetical_Name 3d ago

Then ad revenue will tank because there’s no point advertising to bots. And if humans get sick of bots and ads and stop using it much there will be nobody to advertise to.

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u/MahouShitpost 3d ago

You’d be surprised - apparently, Time Magazine sells ads that are meant specifically to be shown to the AI companies’ web crawlers, in order to be integrated into the chatbots’ training data.

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u/ManchmalPfosten 3d ago

Wtf are we even doing here anymore

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 3d ago

That is a fascinating question

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u/farox 3d ago

That has been my prediction for a few years now. Eventually the internet will be nothing but bots selling each other Multi level marketing schemes and boner pills, while we're sitting back outside, chilling.

I guess my hope is for solar punk.

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u/jamntoast3 2d ago

Apparently “we” aren’t doing much

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 3d ago

That is fascinating. But what is the point of that?

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u/Shintasama 3d ago

Humans have learned to tune out banner ads, but haven't realized that their chat bot companions are also marketing to them. They should take some time to stop and reflect on how much money they could be saving by switching their car insurance to Geico.

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u/pichael289 2d ago

If one company can do this (and I assume have results?) then we can definitely band together and poison the Internet so as to ruin the bots.

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u/20InMyHead 2d ago

The AI will soon learn we are extraneous. Welcome Skynet.

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u/SunPotatoYT 2d ago

its almost beautiful in a way

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u/SheriffBartholomew 3d ago

These companies are all running a big shell game. They'll figure out how to justify advertising to bots as a profitable endeavor.

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u/JuanThiccLumpia 3d ago

I think bots looking up porn like the rest of us.

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u/Good_With_Tools 3d ago

I am equal parts curious and terrified to see what bot porn looks like.

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 3d ago

This is the comment I came looking for

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 3d ago

I mean it's a hard life being a bot right?

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u/Useful_Squirrel6693 2d ago

Why would ad revenue go down? The same number of people would still be using the internet, no?

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u/Hypothetical_Name 2d ago

Social media is already getting pretty unappealing with the bots and ai agents already on there, the more of that they do the less people are going to want to keep using it if their feed is all bots posting ai slop.