Comment by o11c
The difference, of course, is that most AI companies don't have the malicious motive that Google has by also being an ad company.
The difference, of course, is that most AI companies don't have the malicious motive that Google has by also being an ad company.
Google wasn’t really an ad company on day one, either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google?wprov=sfti1#Early_years
> The next year, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords against Page and Brin's initial opposition toward an advertising-funded search engine.
Ads are coming. https://www.theverge.com/news/759140/openai-chatgpt-ads-nick...
Almost every big tech company is an ad company. Google sells ads, Meta sells ads, Microsoft sells ads, Amazon sells ads, Apple sells ads, only Nvidia doesn't because they sell hardware components.
It's practically inevitable for a tech company offering content and everyone who thinks otherwise should set a reminder to 5 years from now.