It won’t be ads. Social media target consumers, so advertising is dominant. We all love free services and don’t mind some attraction.

AI on the other hand target businesses and consumers alike. A bank using LLM won’t get ads. Using LLM will be cost of doing business. Do you know what they means to consumers? Price for ChatGPT will go down.

> Price for ChatGPT will go down.

As will the response quality, while maintaining the same product branding. Users will accept whatever response OpenAI gives them under the "4o", "6p","9x" or whatever brand of the day, even as they ship-of-Theseus the service for higher margins. I'm yet to see an AI service with QoS guarantees, or even that the model weights & infrastructure won't be "optimized" over time to the customer's disadvantage.

>AI on the other hand target businesses and consumers alike.

Okay. So AI will be using ads for consumers and make deals with the billionaires. If window 11/12 still puts ads in what is a paid premium product, I see no optimism in thinking that a "free" chatbot will not also resort to it. Not as long as the people up top only see dollar signs and not long term longevity.

>Price for ChatGPT will go down.

Price for ChatGPT in reality, is going up in the meanwhile. This is like hoping grocery prices come down as inflation lessens. This never happens, you can only hope to be compensated more to make up for inflation.