AI Will Be Monetized with Ads
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Very soon, the cost of inference will find parity with that of search and/or search ads will be more effective and hence be charged more.
It will end up working out, I think.
But I doubt for the other players, the ones that started this AI war and who have a much much smaller audiences than Google.