Google says Gemini won’t have ads, as ChatGPT prepares to add them

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/google-says-gemini-wont-have-ads-as-chatgpt-prepares-to-add-them/

42 Comments

  1. MotanulScotishFold on

    No ads…but can have a different thing like sponsorized answers by Gemini.

    You ask something, Gemini will respond with subtle answer of why don’t you buy this product?

  2. AdTech firm says their latest ad tech won’t have adverts inserted into it’s technology.

    But no doubt anything you ask Gemini will happen to turn up in Gmail, Google search, Android, YouTube and more.

    Which technically isn’t Gemini…

  3. >Google DeepMind CEO says he found it interesting that ChatGPT has opted for ads “so early,” but added that “maybe they feel they need to make more revenue.”

    Oh, Google is going to monetize Gemini harder than YouTube. They just need to figure out how to maximize profits first. Slapping AdWords on it and calling it a day is not going to cut it.

  4. Every AI will ultimately turn into a “advertisement propganda machine”, not giving you the answer with the highest probability of correctness but the highest probability to buy the advertisers product.

    Just like Google and basically every “online service” turned out to become.

  5. Sure, a company making its money primarily from advertising is definitely not going to put ads in their chatbot.

  6. this is a PR move, google will certainly build a profile from your prompts and sell that data (much like gmail.)

  7. I deleted ChatGPT and installed Gemini a few days ago. ChatGPT/OpenAI sucks. Let’s see how long till Google ruins Gemini with all this extra junk.

  8. “Gemini won’t have ads, we will just use whatever you type in there to know what ads to show you wherever you go!”.

  9. Having or not having ads has dictated my media consumption for well over two decades. I really don’t understand why people support ads.

  10. That’s because they can sell your data instead. People put remarkably personal info into these AI chats, it’s a goldmine for data harvesting. There’s no need to have ads to turn a profit.

  11. So with Gemini being a favoured model by many now, they can afford to keep bankrolling it, make chatGPT look even worse by comparison, and accelerate the bubble popping.

    Then we’ll be back at square one and Google can be way dominant in search yet again.

  12. Aemond-The-Kinslayer on

    The biggest AD company in the world promises that its newest and costliest-to-run product will not have ads.

    Yeah, sounds about right.

  13. Sam Altman called adding ads to open AI a last resort two years ago. I guess that’s where we are.

  14. Google just announced a deal with Target so that people can buy things straight from Gemini. ‘No ads?’ Get outta here.

  15. Google is an ad company, this only means that they have money and can wait for chatgpt to go under before Gemini turns into a monopoly and can put ads freely

  16. They will call it “sponsored” or AI editorials, but they will 1000% sure create an ad product out of Gemini.
    All this tech companies know their two tricks – ads & subscription – and it’s the only thing they think of.

  17. Well that’s a lie, They can wait longer to put them in, sure, but that’s *how they make revenue*. They obviously can’t spend an infinite amount of money on GenAI Compute and give it away for free with no monetisation strategy at all *forever* though.

  18. They have embraced enshittification with every single product, but THIS one will be different? Uh, no.

  19. Not the usual kind, sure. But they can still push products all the same. If someone is prompting for help related to hairfall, for example, they can always recommend a product they’re paid to recommend, or recommend several products but order them according to the monetization policy.

    These are still ads, just not as flashy, which make them harder to detect and ignore if anything.

    Open source models and dataset are the way to go and we need tough legislation and precedents around this. Unlike their search page where they can be forced to highlight the ads differently from organic content, LLMs are essentially black boxes and it’s not gonna be easy to even nail down if the ads are really ads.

  20. Just ads for itself plastered all over everything else. No I don’t need AI on my phone, television, and refrigerator.

  21. “The company that receives 80% of its revenue from serving ads claims they won’t serve ads.”

    Ok

  22. That’s the easiest lie to call out ever. How big was the asterisk on that one? The size of Alaska?