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OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I sincerely doubt it. Fundamentally, web advertising is nearing its biological limit - there’s only so much of people’s time you can colonize and direct towards profitable purchases. That tit has been sucked dry. Which is why tech giants are trying to move to a more direct kind of profiteering/rent seeking.

I’m not sure (though it could just be cope) that a sufficient bumber of people are going to take them up on it. OpenAI has sunk a truly ridiculous amount of wealth into the slop generator and I cannot imagine anyone but the most brain broken dipshits queuing up to pay like 50 a month to make it break even, let alone make a profit.