Would you use an LLM knowing it will never answer honestly and any recommendation is likely a sponsored one?

Hell is it going to start injecting ads into coding output? Ask Codex to generate you a fix for your web app and it spits out a number for a web hosting service? Give it a Jira ticket and it gives you an ad for a different SaaS ticketing system?

Is it going to inject ads for indeed while a recruiter is using ChatGPT to summarize a stack of resumes?

If it only ever injects ads for specific requests how profitable would that even be? I understand clients would want their product to be recommended but if I only get the ad answer when prompting a certain way, can I the user avoid ads by asking questions a specific way?

I don't matter. Will a substantial portion of the population? Unfortunately it's not something the average person makes an active decision about, understanding the situation.