Probably it will be creepily more subliminal than that, unfortunately.

That's the neat part — AI comes pre-enshittified!

This simply means they’ve finally run out of money. If that doesn’t help, Apple or Microsoft will just end up buying OpenAI for pennies.

I suppose that means they've reached it.

Scam Altman says a lot of things. He also molests his sister

That's how close we are before the bubble bursts. Plus they can never go public because they'd have to publish their numbers. A minus followed by several commas will definitely burst that bubble.

My uneducated guess : they are bleeding money and need to show that it is slowly stopping and the trend is reversing.

Once that is done, pipe the IPO and make bank before it crashes and burn.

They are speedrunning capitalism.

Next is to pass the corpses of the major IP holding companies around and sue each other and everyone for patents until nobody can afford lawyers anymore.

they do. desperately. it's been stated for awhile now.

Or at least a product worth paying for.

They're explicitly differentiating from modifying the search results as a reason why the ads are transparent. I figure in one year they'll start to insert ads into the answer proper with a disclaimer, and then next fully integrate it.

Why not both?

That would just not bring in enough. Remember that this is their last resort to prevent collapse.

chatgpt is not a person

How can it possibly predict the next word in my sentence when it can't even predict where/who I want to pee??