> With paid AI services, providing better answers faster IS the profit model I hope this is the case, but aren’t today’s paid services all heavily subsidized b

> With paid AI services, providing better answers faster IS the profit model I hope this is the case, but aren’t today’s paid services all heavily subsidized by investment dollars, and brand new, and being used to find traction and validate MVPs? I suspect today’s prices and today’s business model isn’t sustainable. What hope is there that AI won’t end up being much better and more clever at inserting ads in between captive audiences and the things they’re looking for than Google currently is? I get the feeling advertisers are salivating over all the new possible ways AI can sell things, way more than us consumers are excited about having search without ads… I wish everyone wanted to pay for services with money rather than attention, but that’s a small minority of people for any given service, and we are totally hooked on a whole lot of free stuff. Ad-driven business models haven’t been declining, they’ve been growing, we seem to be stuck with them for the time being.