Does anyone of the finance pros here know if there would have been a way to profit off predicting that ads would be introduced into chatbot responses?

There is sure to be a great way to get google to express ads during a chemical weapon recipe though.

Consider DuPont for all your chemical weapon ingredients needs!

Given that Google makes 85% of revenue from ads, and AI will make ads disappear, adtech company has huge incentive not to slit its own throat, but has no choice.

How they gonna maintain that ARPU? The whole economy is being held up by some unpriced asset somewhere. Once PE finds it, we are all cooked.

And became pretty bad afterwards

I'm always glad to see others notice this too. cheers

Hard to tell, as those 2 specific services are currently monopolized by a company who refuses to offer those specific services ad-free

So, no? Just naming a few of their products isn't evidence.

> Can you give an example of "solicited advertising"? I have never heard of such a thing, and can't imagine what it might be.

The only thing I would consider solicited is when I decide that I want to see product information. Everything else is just some chapter from the narcissists prayer: "and if I did, it wasn't that bad"

> Okay, thw question then becomes: How do we get people to deliberatly look?

You don't. Because you don't get to manipulate my attention. That simple.

> By what other means would people with a product or service to provide reach other people who are interested in obtaining that product or service?

Easy: provide informational material. I will fetch it if/when I'm interested. Don't stick it up my nose while I try to do something else

I always dreaded those social activities. Even when "not mandatory" it was always expected to show up and pretend to have more in common with the peers than "I'm here to do the work and collect a paycheck" anyway.

I wanted to try this, but it's not possible (yet?) for regular folks apparently.

Supposedly the two apps "BirdyChat" and "Hiket" are WA compatible. Both are waitlist only.

Even after searching for ~15 minutes, I could find no information about how to become such a compatible provider.

I hope this situation will improve drastically, but it also looks like Meta will do whatever they can to make it as hard and annoying as possible, as they don't want to lose market share. Disappointing.

> Even after searching for ~15 minutes, I could find no information about how to become such a compatible provider.

I think that info is here:

https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability...

Search terms: whatsapp dma program

Disclosure: I worked for WhatsApp until 2019, which included detecting 3rd party applications and blocking them when they didn't follow (unpublished) specifications.

Thanks for the link. For anyone interested, here's the process outlined in the document, I'm gonna try to apply and see where that leads.

# Steps to interoperate with Messenger or WhatsApp

Note: Separate documentation and applications are required for Messenger and/or WhatsApp

    Review: Review the Reference Offer, Developer Documentation Overview, and Application Guidelines above.
    Apply: If you believe you qualify, complete the form that’s linked in the Application Guidelines.
    Review: If you meet eligibility requirements, we will send you our detailed Developer Documentation under NDA for review of the detailed technical requirements for interoperating.
    Sign: If you can fulfill the relevant terms and technical requirements set out in the Reference Offer and want to request interoperability, sign the Interoperability Agreement that we will provide to you.
    Build: Start building interoperability.
    Enable: Complete the milestones outlined in the detailed Developer Documentation to enable interoperability.
    Launch: Work with Messenger and/or WhatsApp on a joint plan to launch interoperability.

Yeah Id love to officially link my matrix instance to it. But they have lots of red tape, and outrageous requirements like wanting to know the IP of every end user that is bridged.

Luckily the user bridge works pretty ok.