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Google also has $100 billion in profit each year from it's core business to wait out OpenAI.
by Bricejm 10mo ago
Google also has $100 billion in profit each year from it's core business to wait out OpenAI.
- LunaSea 10mo agoAnd the search engine and crawler actually powering these LLMs
- Razengan 10mo agoHow is that not a conflict of interest by the way, when Google's AI search results prevent the websites it trained on from getting clicks?
- what 10mo agoAm I the only one that clicks through to the sources cited?
- placatedmayhem 10mo agoI usually do the same, but not always. And I believe clicking through is a behavior of a minority of people and interactions, judging by the click through rate drops sites have seen recently. (On mobile at the moment, so apologies for not grabbing a source for the rate drops sites.)
- muldvarp 10mo agoIn the grand scheme of things? Yes.
- threetonesun 10mo agoHow is it different than Google Summaries or AMP or any of the other ways Google tried to keep people from actually visiting the websites that drive all of their traffic.
- beachy 10mo agoGoogle is also conflicted though. The more they emulate ChatGPT's clean UI, the more they are failing to push ads in people's faces, which is what generates that $100B for them. Their business model fails if their users don't experience a confusing crap-fest of ads.
- LeifCarrotson 10mo agoThey don't have to do that today, though. Remember original Google? Or original Gmail? Neither had prominent ads for the first few years, a couple decades later the ads are everywhere.
- slumberlust 10mo agoAs always, they will keep it clean until they can crank that enshitification dial to 11.
- overfeed 10mo ago> Their business model fails if their users don't experience a confusing crap-fest of ads. I bet you OpenAI will implement ads far sooner than Google can hypothetically run out of money.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoGoogle also has GCP where it can monetize its hardware investments.
- adzm 10mo ago> the more they are failing to push ads in people's faces Won't be long until chat AI will include sponsored products and services in the output.
- paxys 10mo agoOpenAI isn't burning through tens of billions of dollars every year on its free tier for charity. It will dial up the advertising knob (and every other knob) to 11 the moment the cash starts to runs out.
- etempleton 10mo ago
- rvnx 10mo agoAnd they also have their own chips (TPUs), no need for Nvidia