[SideburnsOfDoom]

If they're not paying users then they're just a liability.

[EcommerceFlow]

How so? You capture the market first, then you turn on paid ads and reap benefits for decades like Google.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

Even when a business makes a profit, then the costs are still technically liabilities.

And you're assuming that ad revenues or whatever will be high enough to cover the costs. And that's not a given.

[jcfrei]

monetizing those will come eventually - it's just hard to get right

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> (monetizing LLMs is) just hard to get right

Time will tell if that's just a euphemism for "there is no business model here".