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Comment by sschueller | Hacker News Reader

How is OpenAI going to be able to serve ads in chatgpt without everyone immediately jumping ship to another model?

I suppose the hope is that they don’t, and we wind up with commodity frontier models from multiple providers at market rates.

I don't care about OpenAI even if they don't serve ads.

I can't trust any of their output until they become honest enough to change their name to CloseAI.

ChatGPT is a website. There's nothing unusual about ads on a website.

People use Instagram too.

The same way people stayed on Google despite DuckDuckGo existing.

by having datacenters with GPUs and API everyone uses.

So they are either earning money directly or on the API calls.

Now, competition can come and compete on that, but they will probably still be the first choice for foreseeable future

Google served ads for decades and no one ever jumped ship to another search engine.

Because Google gave the best results for a long time.

and now, when they are not, everyone else's results are also pretty terrible...

They pay $30bn (more than OpenAIs lifetime revenue) each year to make sure noone does.

What are you referring to?

Search deals with mobile OEMs and apple(preferred engine in all mobile browsers) also paying off Mozilla for a start. Also Goog has had a first mover moat for a while before Duck came along.

That got outlawed in Europe due to anti-trust lawsuits. I don't feel like it changed Google's market share here.

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