How AI Chat Will Make Money (Outside Of Ads)

APIs, plugins, data licensing, and subscriptions may supplement advertising — or supplant it — in the chatbot business model.

There’s a certain — very passionate — group of people on the internet who believe AI chatbots should make their money from advertising. I know this because I heard from them this week after I suggested chat would need a different business model. For five days running, my slander of advertising (which I generally like and run in this newsletter) has led …