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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: mungofitch ✹✺🐝 SILVER
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Subject: Re: OT: Apple
Date: 09/14/26 2:39 PM
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Hello goofyhoofy, I think you've misunderstood the point.
It's local AI that sits at the front, keeping the ads away from you, it's fully under your own choice and control.
You don't even need to speculate about 'what if future free local AI systems won't do that...'.
It can do it right now. Just keep using it.
The business model of putting ads in text-based results is ruined right now, and forever, by existing free tech.



This is just a particular implementation of the "ad blocker" stage of evolution that I mentioned. Followed by, I predict, distorted advice based on product placement within the model itself. Instead of good advice interspersed with annoying ads, you get bad advice. There isn't any obvious way to "block" that, other than switching to a different model, presumably one that costs a lot more money. Including a locally run one.

Jim
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