alt Hacker News“The LLM usage will generate hundreds of billions of dollars in ad revenue”
And yet every attempt to extract even minimal ad revenue has been canned to date as something nobody wants with AI providers retreating in failure.
I don’t doubt that there’s “some” ad revenue to be had but there’s little evidence that ads are going to save the day here.
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bdangubic • yesterday at 5:19 PM
These exact words were said tens of thousands of times about Facebook (am old enough to remember those discussions :) ), “no way they can monetize on mobile” (this was the most fun).
rules are simple, if you have Xbn or XXXm users on your system, you will make big bank in ads eventually
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For several early years search was thought to have no great business model (banner ads and similar). And then it did.
GoTo.com -> Google -> $$$