The linked article does his math wrong - the ad revenue per page view is $0.00258, so the profit per page is actually $0.00207.

This will radically accelerate the problem of search results being full of AI-generated spam.

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    4 months ago

    Only while OpenAI subsidizes GPT text generation for free. How long until they realize setting money on fire is not a profitable strategy?

    If outlets had to actually run their own models at cost, it could never even compare to the revenue of one page view.