Google is also conflicted though.

The more they emulate ChatGPT's clean UI, the more they are failing to push ads in people's faces, which is what generates that $100B for them.

Their business model fails if their users don't experience a confusing crap-fest of ads.

> Their business model fails if their users don't experience a confusing crap-fest of ads.

I bet you OpenAI will implement ads far sooner than Google can hypothetically run out of money.

They don't have to do that today, though. Remember original Google? Or original Gmail? Neither had prominent ads for the first few years, a couple decades later the ads are everywhere.

> the more they are failing to push ads in people's faces

Won't be long until chat AI will include sponsored products and services in the output.

OpenAI isn't burning through tens of billions of dollars every year on its free tier for charity. It will dial up the advertising knob (and every other knob) to 11 the moment the cash starts to runs out.

If ads are the future of revenue for AI then every AI company is in trouble, because ads won’t even come close to covering the costs.

Google also has GCP where it can monetize its hardware investments.

As always, they will keep it clean until they can crank that enshitification dial to 11.

And they also have their own chips (TPUs), no need for Nvidia

And the search engine and crawler actually powering these LLMs

How is that not a conflict of interest by the way, when Google's AI search results prevent the websites it trained on from getting clicks?

How is it different than Google Summaries or AMP or any of the other ways Google tried to keep people from actually visiting the websites that drive all of their traffic.

Am I the only one that clicks through to the sources cited?

I usually do the same, but not always. And I believe clicking through is a behavior of a minority of people and interactions, judging by the click through rate drops sites have seen recently. (On mobile at the moment, so apologies for not grabbing a source for the rate drops sites.)

In the grand scheme of things? Yes.