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> Their business model fails if their users don't experience a confusing crap-fest of ads.

I bet you OpenAI will implement ads far sooner than Google can hypothetically run out of money.

They don't have to do that today, though. Remember original Google? Or original Gmail? Neither had prominent ads for the first few years, a couple decades later the ads are everywhere.

> the more they are failing to push ads in people's faces

Won't be long until chat AI will include sponsored products and services in the output.

OpenAI isn't burning through tens of billions of dollars every year on its free tier for charity. It will dial up the advertising knob (and every other knob) to 11 the moment the cash starts to runs out.

If ads are the future of revenue for AI then every AI company is in trouble, because ads won’t even come close to covering the costs.

Google also has GCP where it can monetize its hardware investments.

As always, they will keep it clean until they can crank that enshitification dial to 11.