WhatsApp and Messenger have billions of users but don’t make much ad revenue. I’m sure there exists a way to show ads in ChatGPT that will be figured out eventually but so far nobody’s figured out how to monetize chat as a medium

Also it’s basically free for Google to show you a sponsored result but embedding one in a ChatGPT response actually costs money (assuming they’re part of the generated response).

Lastly I will bet you one Stargate datacenter that Meta has thought about LLM-based advertising, and if there’s any low hanging fruit there it’s already been tried

> WhatsApp and Messenger have billions of users but don’t make much ad revenue.

Not directly, but I bet that connection graph is worth millions. Same with the Giphy keyboard purchase. There's a whole unseen economy of data being valuable for reasons that aren't widely discussed.