Newspapers had no choice after craigslist and later Google/Facebook took all their classified revenue.
replyLLMs may or may not be able to cover their costs with it. We'll see - I suspect product placement as recommendations will become a thing as it won't take as much GPU to give a "recommendation" on "the best widget for X". I firmly expect it to become enshittified the same way google and amazon search has.
And that's if LLMs don't become commodified.
For agentic services, how would you be able to tell that you’ve been product-placed?
replyHidden advertising is illegal in most jurisdictions, so it has to be indicated to the user for each specific occurrence and hence be trackable anyway.
reply"AI can make mistakes. Responses include sponsored content or weights."
replyNow it's compliant with the law.