Altman: Better AI Search Should Move Beyond Advertising and Google Copycats
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OpenAI's Sam Altman said building a better search engine than Google would be "boring". He believes there could be a much better way to help people find and use information than search engines.
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Altman said the world doesn't need another copy of Google. He thinks no one has "cracked the code" yet on integrating chatbots with search.
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Altman said an ad-supported AI search would be "dystopic". He likes ChatGPT's subscription model as users know answers aren't influenced by ads.
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Altman doesn't like that with most tech products, users are the product sold to advertisers. He knows with ChatGPT he's paying so he's not the product.
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Altman is biased against ads but says there may be ways for AI search to be profitable without advertising. He's confident OpenAI can have a sustainable business model for its compute needs without ads.