Exactly, Google's business isn't search, it's ads. Is ChatGPT a more profitable system for delivering ads? That doesn't appear so, which means there's really no reason for Google to have created it first.

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razodactyl 6 hours ago | parent [-]

There was a very negative "immune" response from the users when they perceived suggestions from ChatGPT as ads.

This will be hard for them to integrate in a way that won't annoy users / will be better implemented than any other competitor in the same space.

Or perhaps we just deal with all AI across the board serving us ads.... this makes more sense unfortunately.

	▲	transcriptase 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There’s a very negative immune response to the idea of Netflix running ads. And yet they’re there, in the form of prominent product placement in all of their original series along with strategic placement in the frame to make sure they appear in cropped clips posted to social media and made into gifs. Stranger Things alone has had 100-200 brands show up under the warm guise of nostalgia, with Coke alone putting up millions for all the less-than-subtle screen time their products get. I’m certain AI providers will figure out how to slyly put the highest bidder into a certain proportion of output without necessarily acting out that scene in Wayne’s World.
	▲	mahirsaid 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I suspect google can last much longer in regards to an AI model chat engine that competes with open AI and other companies, without needing a profit from that particular product in a timely manner. I can's say the same for the others. Google is using it's own money to fund this without mch pressure for immediate profit in a time deadline. They can rely on their other services for revenue and profit for the meantime.