On: OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

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right, but casual users aren't paying (and won't ever)

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Users aren't paying for Google or Facebook either. Advertisers do.

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Right, again, even if you take every advertiser in the world and shove them in a dungeon and then point a cannon at them and say "give me all the money you have", you won't even have 1/10th the money you need.

Everyone is vastly, vastly overestimating advertising. Advertising is a side hustle, because the product is the main hustle.