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Yeah it's a neat little novelty. But the vast majority of people aren't going to pay anything for a chatbot. Bribing businesses to use it won't pull much in either. It'll never be a sustainable source of revenue.
Governments and trade associations and other groups do already and or will pay for chatbots.
The govt connected contractors already have the newest versions, added to the mercenary outfits of mechanized troll divisions. To ratfuck public opinion.
Does that equate to the hundreds of billions a year revenue they'll need to even start to not look like a joke. Their spending cycle would never end as they'll never be able to build at the pace of hardware changes.
And that's assuming the whole ai industry absolutely takes off rather than crash and burn