I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported

Post by jorvi » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

WarmWash wrote: post #151

jorvi wrote: post #140

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YouTube Premium still has """promotional""" content (read: ads). Ad cards, ad footers, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/8CHWGReiQt

And your evidence is a screenshot in a reddit post from 2 years ago? Rather than "Open the app and check", which I did, and there a no ads. Nor have I ever seen that promo from the screenshot, or any of those other things you mention. I'm guessing you are complaining about something that you don't even have?

Post by WarmWash » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 6:53 PM UTC

rdiddly wrote: post #197

WarmWash wrote: post #161

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First off the content creators don't mark up where sponsored segments are, the algo builds on statistics of where people skip. So if a video is fresh, it might not work. Second, you are capable of building a coherent argument, but left out that almost half of viewers don't pay. When you are a child, paying for things is frustrating and annoying, so the ones taking the money are bad. When you grow up, you realize that…

"You pay and it's yours." Which is exactly why, having paid for an ad-free service, people are miffed when ads appear anyway. I'm not going to take on the responsibility of educating you as to the examples that exist, because that's your own responsibility. Not only because we have to educate ourselves, but because you made the unsupported claim in the first place that the phenomenon doesn't exist. Proving a negative…

Post by gus_massa » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 6:59 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #193

gus_massa wrote: post #137

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I just took a look at your last post. It asks to use a Google account or create an account. Unless there is a way to try it freely, it's very difficult to get traction in HN. After a few clicks, I noticed you posted a link to a shared document, but I can click "make a copy" and edit my own copy. I tried clicking the button "f(x)" and typing \displaystyle\cancel{\frac{1}{2}} and it works :) --- So I took a look at you…

Thanks for the feedback. I will try that :) Revise can already do a lot of things neither Google nor Overleaf can so I think it has an edge.

Post by twoodfin » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC

simianwords wrote: post #65

It’s strange to see extreme amount of hysteria on this. There’s enough market competition to not allow this. If ChatGPT is doing it then just move to Claude. If all are doing it then surely opensource models are a good alternative. But i think leaning into the hysteria provides some comfort

Post by amarant » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 7:03 PM UTC

Muhammad523 wrote: post #86

nickk81 wrote: post #2

We all know the pattern: something useful launches → it becomes popular → it needs to make money → ads everywhere. AI chat is heading the same way. So I built a fully interactive demo that shows what an ad-supported AI chatbot could actually look like: https://99helpers.com/tools/ad-supported-chat It includes every monetization pattern you can think of: - Pre-chat interstitials (like YouTube pre-rolls, but for chat)…

Maybe people will start running local models on their phones to avoid this, i've seen a couple of apps for android that do just that.