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I was very happy when I read the news by OpenAI. I think the advertising principles that they announced, they are
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very good and it's hard to imagine them being better. In fact, so for example,
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one of the key principles, they call it long-term value, which is they do not optimize for time spent on Chach. That's
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a big deal. That's a big deal. If they can stick to that, I think that's going
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to be a much more likely that advertising power business models are going to just be very good for
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consumers, making available for free and enormously useful technology supporting
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the AI ecosystems and continuous investment and improvement in the area and at the same time, you know, making
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sure that this doesn't wreck people's mental health. The question obviously
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moving forward is can they stick with it and what does it mean? Because it seems
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that some of the principles they have announced including answer independence saying you know the answers are not
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dictated by who's advertising or privacy settings or we do not optimize for engagement. They are very admirable but
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they do seem to go in direct opposition to short-term financial incentives where
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there is an incentive to optimize for engagement and gaining more eyeballs and more advertising space to sell to
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people. And so in that sense we'll have to see how this gets implemented.