43 points lmbbuchodi 1 hour ago 7 comments
Legend2440 6 minutes ago | parent
So basically the same kind of tracking that Facebook, Google, etc have been doing for decades?
Avshalom 5 minutes ago | parent
Yuuup. tracking consumers and finding spending correlations to exploit was the entire reason for the "Data Science" and "ML" pushes that got us here.
mavsman 4 minutes ago | parent
To me, this quote just about sums it up:
> The mechanism is standard adtech. What has no precedent is running it on an AI chat product.
As someone who has been well aware of this mechanism for quite some time, I still feel icky anytime I re-read the details of it.
What a time to be alive.
BCM43 2 minutes ago | parent
This has been around since at least April: https://www.adexchanger.com/daily-news-roundup/the-openai-pi...