Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

https://awful.systems/post/7380892

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Often, the ad loads before the chatbot’s query response, said Baird, and Koah’s goal is to “deliver such a relevant result to the user that they just click on the ad before the result loads.”

LLM’s bad performance and inefficiency is a feature to /someone/. And chatbots are themselves not immune to enshitification.

One Chatbot’s Journey To Introducing Ads That Don’t Suck

Luzia wanted ads that were specifically designed for an AI chat interface. It found a solution in generative AI ad network Koah.

AdExchanger

ads that don’t suck does not compute