Benedict Evans

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941 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard May 2025

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The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck · AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now · 22 May 2025 podcast

Um ruling against meta.

Uh I've been trying to stay away from that as much as I could.

I know.

I mean I wrote about it in my newsletters like we I I just try and ignore this stuff 'cause it's so boring and in the end like you can have strong feelings about it, but in the end it's not gonna change anything.

But the meta the the the EU position

Which I'm gonna say this as fairly as possible, is you should have an option to use Facebook without having ads that are based on what you're interested in.

And so Meta says, Okay, then you can have an option that you can pay.

And the EU says no, 'cause that's not equivalent.

So you need to have an option where you're not paying.

And you're not getting answered based on what you're interested in.

What?

So Meta's supposed to just provide the product for free?

Well that's your problem.

Yeah.

Now you can have an opinion about that either way, and there's only one correct opinion, the other opinion is stupid.

But it raises the question in this context of if I'm using Chat GPT and I'm seeing ads, could those ads could be contextual to what I've just asked about.

Which doesn't seem to raise even like the most extreme privacy jihadis don't seem to have a problem with that.

Or it could be contextual to the whole memory feature that GP ch OpenAI and and and Anthropic are trying to build.

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