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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

so when was youtube profitable?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Youtube wasn't burning billions per year and it's also pretty much the primary entity for video for the whole world which has other benefits for google. Finally Youtube can be monetized through adverts, since storage and bandwidth costs are relatively low. Whereas GenAI's compute costs aren't.

[–] explodicle 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't they put ads into the responses?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

If they could, they would have already.

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