Unless Claude adds ads, it isnt going to be sustainable for both Anthropic or you - and congrats, you've invented Google Search.
Regarding Claude, it’s true they must be losing money on free users since they promised they won’t put ads there.
Speculatively, I think people are overestimating the cost of inference for the consumer free tier chatbots. I suspect it’s effectively a marketing cost. The primary expenses are compute to train the next model, stock compensation, and heavy-duty enterprise inference (which pays for itself).
It isnt Netflix deciding, sure I'll make money, it is more shareholders are demanding profits .. and Netflx is forced to act.
So if Ads are a disease, and we (you + me + anyone with a stake in the US economy's growth) are the virus.