[TechSquidTV]

Google splits with the creator 50-50. If you got paid $1000, so did Google. And given their hosting infrastructure, network, and other tools, I would say it's a miracle they don't charge to upload.

[PakG1]

Not a miracle if the math works out such that their margins cover the infrastructural fixed costs. Just simple economics.

[ShinyLeftPad]

You clearly don't work in AI:)