Comment by bobbiechen

I am less optimistic. Even paid products like Netflix or the Amazon Kindle are ad-monetized now.

I think the current useful state of consumer LLMs is a temporary subsidy, and the incentives to add ads are too large. And that will change everything, even tools that should work for the user. I recently wrote a blog post on this: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ai-lifestyle-subsidy-is-go...