The ‘honeymoon’ period of popular AI is not quite over. If we were to compare it to the descent from the golden age of Netflix to the current balkanization and commercialization of streaming providers, it’s about 2019. The incumbent (OpenAI) is now well-challenged by an affluent array of competitors, none of whom have gained enough definitive ground to risk forcing adverts on their fickle user-base. Likewise, ChatGPT currently limits in-chat advertising to Free and Go users; Gemini’s ads appear…