Comment by Gravityloss

I see two really good ideas for monetizing the free tier for consumers.

Firstly, if the user is asking for things where AI can link to products or services to buy, there's a very good relevancy, much higher than in other types of ads.

Secondly, since the AI often takes time to compute answers to user's questions, they could be shown ads while waiting. People could perhaps be less annoyed by this than some other commercials since they know the break has to be there anyway.

(First idea is something I came up when asking Claude to compare some products, or ask for help in lawn care. Second idea was by a colleague.)