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AI has two, and only two, paths to monetization. Users pay the server costs, or advertisers.
Not enough users are interested in paying for something they can't trust to be accurate, and I suspect/hope no one will use these tools once they start spewing advertisements from their training data.
Could some of these tools survive on enterprise users alone? Maybe, but businesses are taking on a lot of legal risks when they make the confident guesser bot a key part of their supply chain.
They’re already spewing ads. People are used to it and don’t mind. Also some don’t particularly care about accuracy.
These companies best hope is to lock governments into deals they can’t get out of.
That’s a large practically guaranteed flow of cash that will keep the companies healthy for a long time, off the back of taxpayers.
I think it's more likely they make it dangerous enough that large countries can't afford to not have it. That's what largely seems to be happening in the US and China, both countries probably see AI as both a weapon and defensive tool.