I'm not saying they should or will give up on these markets, just that their margins aren't likely to be great.

There's already so much AI porn right now. There's no reason to believe that OpenAI will be any better or able to command higher margins than their competitors. They also have the problem of being under a ton of public and regulatory scrutiny so the highest paying clientele, the people with niche unsavory fetishizes, won't be able to be serviced by them.

And that's ignoring the fact that getting into this space at all is pure HN speculation and unlikely to ever happen anyway.

> They've already got (way!) more users than those other sites, though.

By selling a dollar for 90 cents. The trick is what to do when the venture capital runs out.