[cced]

Competitors use ads?

[tommica]

I'm "excited" for the era of different locally run LLMs get to have ads baked into them... People start selling ad-space to inject into their training/tuning data. Could be quite lucrative.

[runjake]

Not yet. But they likely will, if OpenAI's ad revenue becomes worthwhile.

[tyre]

Or they view it as a differentiator and focus on a different segment. As I understand it, this is what Anthropic is doing:

1. Focus on businesses and developers

2. Make money on productivity and API platform

Enterprises are particularly sensitive about their data being farmed (e.g. note that paid Google accounts don’t have their emails used for ads.)

Keeping that trust is not a differentiator and existentially important to Anthropic.

[simianwords]

no they don't

[eknkc]

They will or they will perform worse. OpenAI will be able to offer a better `free tier` as it won't be free after all.

[Someone1234]

Not yet, but they all will. OpenAI has shown that customers will accept it.