Yes -- but both Google and Meta didn't start off as an advertising company - they started off providing a service a lot of people liked, and then eventually added ads to it. My assumption (somewhat implicit, admittedly) is that there's no reason OpenAI couldn't do the same. I can understand why that might be controversial, though.
But honestly, if OpenAI can't figure out ads given all their data and ability, they deserve to fail. :P
But honestly, if OpenAI can't figure out ads given all their data and ability, they deserve to fail. :P