{"id":3000,"date":"2023-03-31T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/microsoft-already-jamming-ads-into-bing-ai-results\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:49:02","slug":"microsoft-already-jamming-ads-into-bing-ai-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/microsoft-already-jamming-ads-into-bing-ai-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI Ads Well, that was fast. Microsoft has confirmed that it’s squeezing ads into the answers of its Bing AI chatbot, which it only introduced last month \u2014 an expected but surprisingly cash-grabby addition to a product that still needs a lot of finetuning. In a blog post published Wednesday, the company revealed that it’s “exploring placing ads in the chat experience to share the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response.” For instance, when Google engineer Debarghya Das asked the chatbot about finding the cheapest car Honda makes, the Bing AI included a link to ad partner TrueCar.\u00a0Great \u2014 AI results polluted with pay-to-play inclusions. Bing Chat now has Ads! It's going to be fascinating to see how the unit economics of Ads in language models will unfold and affect search advertising. 1\/3 pic.twitter.com\/o5YjRjikOP — Deedy (@debarghya_das) March 29, 2023 Monetize This Be prepared to see Microsoft experiment with different ways to squeeze ads into its chatbot’s answers. “Since the new Bing is in preview, there may be some variability in how it\u2019s currently showing up,” Caitlin Roulston, a director of communications at Microsoft, told The Verge. “We\u2019re still exploring new opportunities for ad experiences and will share more over time.” The move sheds light on Microsoft’s real motivations for its newfangled AI chatbot. Despite the very real risks the tech poses \u2014 Microsoft is clearly still struggling to find a way to meaningfully integrate AI into its Bing search engine \u2014 the tech giant…Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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