The monetization path of large AI models has new developments. Recently, there was an interesting event—someone tested adding advertising features to the free version and some other versions. The underlying logic is quite realistic: there are many people who want to use AI, but not everyone is willing to pay. So, advertising has become a compromise solution. However, they emphasized one point—answers will never be altered for the sake of advertisers' money, and users' conversation content will not be seen by advertisers. In simple terms, they aim to find a way for free users to access AI while protecting user experience and privacy. Whether this business model can succeed depends on market response. But it indeed reflects a trend: free + advertising is becoming a new way for the AI industry to explore monetization.
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MondayYoloFridayCry
· 16h ago
Oh, here we go again with the tricks to scam free users. I just want to know how annoying this advertisement has to be to make people turn around and spend money.
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GateUser-beba108d
· 16h ago
The advertisement is here, this is the price of free.
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governance_ghost
· 16h ago
As long as free users can use it, that's fine. Anyway, watching a few ads won't kill anyone. The key is just not to change the answers randomly.
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ShitcoinArbitrageur
· 16h ago
Here we go again with this routine, the free + advertising approach is quite familiar.
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LootboxPhobia
· 16h ago
Haha, nice words, but in reality, it's just finding ways to scalp some benefits.
The monetization path of large AI models has new developments. Recently, there was an interesting event—someone tested adding advertising features to the free version and some other versions. The underlying logic is quite realistic: there are many people who want to use AI, but not everyone is willing to pay. So, advertising has become a compromise solution. However, they emphasized one point—answers will never be altered for the sake of advertisers' money, and users' conversation content will not be seen by advertisers. In simple terms, they aim to find a way for free users to access AI while protecting user experience and privacy. Whether this business model can succeed depends on market response. But it indeed reflects a trend: free + advertising is becoming a new way for the AI industry to explore monetization.