@scott
So, in consequence, each question to an ai must must generate a multitude of what ad revenue of Google does with one search. Right?

And as long as this is not the case, it means that it's highly subsidized. And I wonder how this develops as soon as companies aren't willing - or capable - anymore to subsidize this kind of service.

@hikingdude @scott

According to Sam Altman, the goal of AI is to put all human knowledge on a meter, where stolen data is held hostage and a ransom is paid by users to access it.
https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-intelligence-will-be-a-utility-and-hes-just-the-man-to-collect-the-bills-2000732953

https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/sam-altman-ai-labor-capital-jobs-nobody-knows/

Of course, the fossil fuel industry & its vassals has done a superb job at book bans, attacking education, and lowering literacy rates, so Altman's vision of chokepoint capitalism & AI may come true.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-wants-to-turn-ai-into-a-utility-and-meter-intelligence-like-electricity

https://www.storyboard18.com/digital/sam-altman-says-ai-could-become-a-metered-utility-like-electricity-in-the-future-92277.htm

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https://www.firstpost.com/tech/ai-will-be-like-electricity-openais-sam-altman-predicts-ai-will-become-a-daily-utility-13989707.html

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/sam-altman-says-ai-will-soon-become-a-utility-like-electricity-people-will-buy-it-from-him-by-the-metre-2881300-2026-03-13

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/openai-in-talks-to-pay-about-3-billion-to-acquire-startup-windsurf.html

https://gizmodo.com/whats-cooler-than-building-a-literal-god-building-the-new-uber-2000684458

https://jacobin.com/2018/06/public-education-privatization-koch-brothers-teachers

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

Building a society based on illiterate peasants and only the rich can afford access to good quality information....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/24/us-conservatives-campaign-books-ban-schools