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Ads can barely cover video streaming services. Running an LLM costs orders of magnitude more. Even the paid tiers are starting to throttle usage.
Why do you think they won't put ads in the paid tiers? They do that with virtually everything else.
They can try, but it won't be enough. The AI bubble is currently predecated on removing $50k a year employees. Nothing short of that is profitable. Everything we have now is being funded by that bet.
You're mistaken. That salary target is much higher.
They want to replace anyone not inbyhe c suite e