I hope this is sarcasm

I am suspect that ads will be able to cover the cost of inference, much less model building, salaries, product development, etc. The ad industry is built upon _and priced for_ websites that return results for virtually zero cost. That isn't going to be true for rendering AI.

Try using the shopping feature they just launched. It's literally just jamming ads into your chat session.

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-shopping-research/

They should compete in the crucible of the free market. If prompt engineering is indeed a profitable industry then so be it. I for one am just tired of all things software being dominated by this hype funded AI frenzy.