I can’t believe they haven’t already

Too early to do it. You have to wait until people's behaviour is set in stone to the point they need to be compensated heavily to switch.

This isnt rocket science, its basic game-playing on the economic behaviour of humans.

	▲	yunwal 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t think they’ve been successful enough at monopolizing to get away with this to an egregious extent like Google has. Anthropic and Google both have debatably better models with ad-free platforms (so far). And open models are not so far behind.