Freedom from advertisements, they said. And for a while, they were right. We got used to paying an almost nominal fee and delving into a new sort of platform that freed us from the legacy platforms that had become completely choked with omnipresent advertising.

No, I’m not retelling the story of AI and search engines. I’m talking about television streaming and cable/satellite subscriptions. Years later, ads crept in. They grew in length and number. Like or not (few will like it), the same fate is likely for the AIs we take for granted as being advertisement-free right now.

Why it’s inevitable:

OpenAI landed itself in hot water with the public last week when users rebelled against what they took to be advertisements appearing in ChatGPT. OpenAI insisted they were app suggestions and not

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