An alternative view is that OpenAI specifically needs to build hype to get more investment and is spending massive amounts of money to provide ChatGPT for free,

An alternative view is that OpenAI specifically needs to build hype to get more investment and is spending massive amounts of money to provide ChatGPT for free, in order to do so [0]. The unanswered question for Google is how to future evolutions of ChatGPT affect the search business, between unclear monetization/advertising, and the issues with language models making up facts. [0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/microsoft-announces-multibillion-dollar-investment-in-chatgpt-maker-openai.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/microsoft-announces-multibil...