Time magazine has begun serving ads specifically aimed at AI agents, as Digiday reports, with the hope of generating some much-needed revenue

“Maybe it’s more important to influence the agent than even the human, because with a human you influence one person,” Mobian cofounder and CEO Jonah Goodhart told Digiday. “When you influence ChatGPT, you’re influencing potentially all of ChatGPT. If ChatGPT changes what it says about [a brand], it’s massive and it’s more than any one campaign could ever do.”

If I was this dumb I surely would be smart enough to keep my mouth shut.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/50015379

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Advertising to AI Agent is not a real business, it is a perpetual motion machine that consumes a shocking amount of energy.

    • diz@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      There’s a slopper at the other end of it who believes that asking AI to find the best place to buy bitcoin is something that AIs are good at. Or perhaps asking AI to summarize the article and getting a penis enlargement ad as a summary.