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Would it be effective advertising? Yes. Would it be a profitable business model for OpenAI? Ehhhh... kinda doubt it. Advertising (and tracking) may subsidize practically all search engines, but I don't think there's anywhere near enough marketing departments with the kind of spending budget Sam Altman needs to dig himself out of the hole.
It’s enough to finance google and meta, no? 5% of that will make him a new zuck
The difference is that what they're doing is cheap on a per-user-operation level. If Google makes $0.00001 per search, but they spend a tenth of that serving it, they come out ahead. OpenAI and LLMs generally are so massively unprofitable that they cannot recover the cost of a query through ad spend at any price an advertiser would be willing to pay.
Depends if they are more effective, innit. You are reaching demographic which likely not seeing ads, aspiring rich tech bros and bored professionals.