Cable TV was once ad free. So was Netflix. Companies just can’t help themselves.

Netflix is still ad free for the right price. It's not like companies have some fetish for advertising specifically, it's that it brings in money. Often more money than a user would be willing to pay for the service.

And the new "right price" is being increased again to a new "right price" just like it was months ago.

> Every time this comes up there are comments assuming that ads are being injected into the normal plans

No. The distinction between the unpaid vs. cheap vs. expensive plans is irrelevant here.

The main controversial point about this topic is to include ads in the output of an LLM-backed AI tool responses. It does not matter at all in which tier it occurs.

The discussion is about the fact that it occurs in the first place.

> The main controversial point about this topic is to include ads in the output of an LLM-backed AI tool responses.

Except the article very clearly explains that the ads are separate from the AI responses.

> the ads are separate from the AI responses

Ok. But that is in my opinion a distinction without a difference.

It does not matter whether the ads are built by the AI itself and seamlessly embedded into the regular responses. Or just made separately and placed into the same window as the AI's output.

The bulk of the controversies in relation to doing this are still roughly the same, whatever the origin of the ads may be.

Until next quarter earnings, when ads become a feature in more expensive plans.

Would require a lot of training to implement ads blended into convo and not have it be too obvious/ eff up the results?