Yeah I mean at this point, the tech industry is not new, nor is its playbook. At least within B2C, sooner or later everything seems to degenerate into an adtech model. I think it's because the marginal cost of software distribution is so low - you may as well give it away for free all the way up to the 8 billion population cap, and then monetize them once they're hooked, which inevitably seems to mean showing them ads, reselling what you know about them, or both.

What I have seen nobody come even NEAR to talking about is, why would OpenAI not follow this exact same direction? Sooner or later they will.

Things might pan out differently if you're a business - OpenAI already doesn't train its models on enterprise accounts, I imagine enterprise will take a dim view to being shown ads constantly as well, but who knows.

But B2C will be a cesspit. Just like it always ends up a cesspit.