Probably trying to take advantage of the cross session memory feature some LLM providers are increasingly integrating. Enough "suggestions" and it becomes a "fact" in that memory, and one day a user makes a somewhat relevant query and the model will be pushing those accumulated "facts" to said user.
skeledrew
I would also like to read the stripped down markdown copy and not the original. All the time.
notjes
Is the intention that some type of long-term context would be seeded with "ideas" for the AI to serve up if it is ever asked for bank recommendations? It seems kinda ad-hoc and untargeted, but perhaps for high cost services it might be worth it.
WJW
I was on a NYT page and used Firefox mobile's "Summarize" button... it spit out some sort of unrelated cooking recipe. I'm guessing this type of bot interference will become more and more common.
MetaWhirledPeas
I wonder if this also means that a normal user with a privacy-focused browser also gets this version. I can't see the point (except for click fraud?) of showing ads to AI, so it feels like this is more for the ad-blocking and privacy crowd.
everdrive
That's actually really neat, even without advertising I can serve humans my full page and AI bots a version with some parts removed. Or added.
red_admiral
Next step the ads become increasingly sophisticated prompt injection to ensure they make it to the user, but the prices plummet in the meantime because the ads have low efficacy. They get purchased mostly by the scammers and by the time they start showing up in user chats they’ll be full on LLM assisted interactive user manipulation campaigns with far worse outcomes than the worst of YouTube and social media ads.
raggi
The same things your bot reads are saved as material for training in the future by your provider, so this seems as an attempt to poison the training data. Just this weekend had a dinner with someone who insisted that part of his business is to seo promote business in chatbots and this looks as part of the infrastructure behind such efforts.
gostsamo
This is a neat idea. Might even make sense in cases where you actually want the AI bots hitting your site (we want it for our ecom platform, for example) - just serve Markdown content optimized for AI.
Be careful not to do this with Googlebot, though. Google would consider this "cloaking" and could ban your entire domain for it.
apocalyptic0n3
> A couple of the bots did not even get that. GPTBot and ChatGPT-User, the agents OpenAI uses for training and live fetches, came back 406
I find that odd, If I were doing that, that's what I would want to target the bots used for training in order to get the ad content in the training corpus.
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skeledrew
notjes
WJW
MetaWhirledPeas
everdrive
red_admiral
raggi
gostsamo
Be careful not to do this with Googlebot, though. Google would consider this "cloaking" and could ban your entire domain for it.
apocalyptic0n3
I find that odd, If I were doing that, that's what I would want to target the bots used for training in order to get the ad content in the training corpus.
throwawayffffas