It was a huge mistake to monetize GPTs. I and many other AI enthusiasts would have probably developed plenty of useful GPTs for free. But now I would never bother because nobody will see my projects under all the SEO spam and fake ratings.
That and even if they had proper reviews in place, there is no telling when they would pull the plug on the entire thing. Based on that alone I never even considered making a GPT for sale.
Having said that, I do like them because of the openAPI integration. I made one for myself that can send things to a private discord channel through webhooks and can calls my memo instance (https://github.com/usememo) to store or retrieve memos.
When you say it's monetized, are they actually giving anyone any money? The details of that were to "to be announced" but I haven't heard any announcement.
It seems that just the 'threat' of monetizing it would cause an absolute flood of GPTs to be launched, under the assumption that they would eventually get paid.
It's the fastest growth product in number of users in the history of the internet, to think they wouldn't run the Apple store playbook as much as possible is naive.
