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I don't get why ads are never mentioned in the article. The current use cases of GenAI (chatbots, generate [art] for me,...) have extremely obvious monetization angles through ads, and then there's a positive chance that they can bring in revenue through more ways than that (they already do in the form of subscriptions, eg). It might be that the economics still don't work out, but at least it should be considered?

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90% of the reason I use chat gpt is that it doesn't have ads. Shove them in and usage goes way down.

Also ads only make sense for the use case of direct chatting with a user, any type of automation (the big promise of AI) ads don't matter.

> 90% of the reason I use chat gpt is that it doesn't have ads. Shove them in and usage goes way down.

Don't you think that people would have felt similarly about early Google search?

> any type of automation (the big promise of AI) ads don't matter

I would have thought that ads have no place in an OS, but they proved me wrong on that. How sure are you they won't prove you wrong on automation ("summarize this text for me - here you go, shall I run it through Grammarly now?", "build this app for me - [uses freemium tool instead of equally capable FOSS]",...)? Never underestimate the potential for enshittification.

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