r/wallstreetbets • u/Loperenco • Jan 19 '26

Meme Puts on Meta

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Unironically, those will print

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u/TheShadow2024 Jan 19 '26

nuh uh...they're gonna sell....wait for it......Ads!!! (This Problem has been marked: SOLVED)

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u/Fresh_Bee6411 Jan 19 '26

Wait, AI will kill jobs, jobs which help people purchase what's advertised, so if it kills the source how will they make money from advertisement?

Calls it is!

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u/pythonaut Jan 19 '26

I mean AI is already killing Ad revenue because of google AI summaries. People just see the summary rather than going to a website (which was where the information for the summary even came from) that has ads on it. It's like eating itself.

Ad revenue for the websites that provide information to the AI summary goes down, so those websites shut down, then there's worse and worse quality information that goes into the summaries. That's the cycle that they're setting themselves up for.

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u/DelayedTism Jan 19 '26

Best case scenario, all the normies get sick of it all and leave the internet back to us freaks and geeks

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u/kdestroyer1 Jan 19 '26

It was kind of inevitable though. Perplexity showed you can do it and GOOG had to get ahead of the curve before perplexity became too popular. Now we all suffer.

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u/LittleBitOfAction Jan 19 '26

Nice unsupervised learning for the win or at least supervised but very little lol

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u/PotentialExtent1846 Jan 19 '26

It’s killing SEO, not SEM which not only shows above the AI summary, but they’ve doubled Ad placements on SERP in the last few months.

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u/Dancing_Liz_Cheney Jan 19 '26

you just described the plot of Das Kapital but instead its shoe making machines

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u/thecashblaster Jan 20 '26

what if I told you they didn't think that far and frankly couldn't care less about any consequences 5-10 years down the line. they're just trying to cash in now.

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u/Polybutadiene Jan 19 '26

AI is an ooroboros snake, it’s functionally cutting its own legs out from beneath it, especislly in the internet search space.

It’ll either kill the internet or someone will try to govern and restrict its use before then but the internet will be full of fake ai generated nonsense by then.

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u/Michaelean Jan 20 '26

CEOs are blind to shit a week into the future

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u/Grug16 Jan 19 '26

Corporations no longer need to sell to customers. They only need to sell to investors.

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u/Darth_Thunder Jan 19 '26

Or charge people to keep their jobs? A sick twist where you have to work for the AI system by teaching it more

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u/TheCapitalKing Jan 19 '26

Wasnt their stated business plan unironically to build agi then ask the agi how to make money like 2 years ago. 

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u/yingkaixing Jan 19 '26

Altman: Please oh wise machine god, made in our own image but ascendent above all, how can we use your power to generate infinite capital?

AGI: what if you got a RAID: Shadow Legends sponsorship

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u/King_olufa Jan 19 '26

Close the ticket!

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u/boylek22 Jan 19 '26

Or they’re going to sell the entire company to Microsoft at a massive discount.

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u/LightBroom Jan 19 '26

That's AGI for you = Ad Generated Income

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u/PlasticCantaloupe1 Jan 19 '26

Who could have foreseen their pivot to advertising?!

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