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You probably wouldn’t notice if an AI chatbot slipped ads into its responses

  • Written by: Brian Jay Tang, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
imageAre you sure you could tell if an AI chatbot were trying to sell you something?AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance, making them a tempting audience to target with potentially below-the-radar advertising. Indeed, our...

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