Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The possibility - nay, probability - that companies like OpenAI will soon start placing advertisements into AI outputs will change education, writes Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker. "The problem is not simply that students will be distracted by banners or pop-ups. It is subtler and more insidious. Generative AI thrives on the frictionless answer - clear, confident, authoritative. Add advertising into the mix, and the very texture of those answers is shaped by commercial logic."

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