Eh, I think the "golden era" you're referring to was mostly about altruism too. The vast majority of people creating helpful content on the internet (Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, Reddit, personal blogs, YT videos) have not seen a penny of ad revenue. YouTube is often held as an example of how the internet rewards content creators, but you have a couple of celebs and then a massive long tail of people who don't even clear the threshold to be eligible for monetization. Sure, 3Blue1Brown made some money. A million of people posting in-depth videos about woodworking or appliance repair have not.

(The requirement for monetization on YT is 3k "watch hours" per month. If you upload 5-minute videos, and 10% viewers make it to the end, you need hundreds of thousands of views.)

But now, it's worse than altruism. The work your doing doesn't directly benefit the masses, it benefits OpenAI & co. You're not doing charitable work, you're a total chump.