Could be as simple as referral link commission like all those totally-not-content-farm travel blogs.
Travel sites, VPNs and insurance all pay quite handsomely (compared to say amazon links on cooking sites)
> If you do all the payment through OpenAI it seems to leave them open to liability.
Booking, airbnb, rentalcars, etc all seem to be doing pretty fine regulatory wise.
At least with an ad it's obvious a separate company is involved. If you do all the payment through OpenAI it seems to leave them open to liability.