A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition.

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Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.

Artificial intelligence is unpopular and uncool — so A.I. companies are making ads that don’t even bother to show their own products. Will it pay off?