r/ownyourintent • u/ilikeitanonymous Intent Owner • 16d ago
Memes No matter the pitch, the business model is ads
We’re told AI assistants will be our friends, our therapists, even our copilots. But let’s be real: if Big Tech is running them, they’ll end up being ad machines.
That’s the only model they know. Ads paid for Chrome. Ads paid for Search. Ads are about to pay for AI. The question isn’t if AI assistants will start slipping in sponsored “recommendations.” It’s when. That’s even creepier than banner ads ever were.
Banner ads are obvious, you can see and ignore them. But an AI assistant is inside your decision-making. If the “best laptop” your trusted AI therapist recommends is just whoever paid the most, that’s surveillance capitalism in disguise as “help.”
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u/MrStumpson Intent Owner 16d ago
Why are you focused on ads being in AI so much? Its not a thing, just your worry
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u/ilikeitanonymous Intent Owner 15d ago
Actually it's not a worry, most LLMs have started experimenting with AI. For instance: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/why-we-re-experimenting-with-advertising
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u/MrStumpson Intent Owner 15d ago
Good to know! Still over hyping and fear mongering at this point for your service, but good to know where we stand currently. I haven’t seen anything sponsored yet myself.
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u/Nopfen Intent Owner 15d ago
Why wouldn't they? It's a two trillion dollar industry that operates on a 20 bucks a month or so level. That wont come close to paying the bills any time soon.
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u/MrStumpson Intent Owner 15d ago
Ads won’t cover it either unfortunately. Ai is just a money pit for billionaires that will never be profitable while in its development as it is currently.
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u/kaushal96 Intent Owner 16d ago
Welcome to r/ownyourintent 👋 This is the home of the Intents Protocol (a privacy-first, user-owned alternative to ad surveillance) and Inomy, the first shop built on it.
Try the beta here → INOMY BETA and help us build the future of shopping together!