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Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by sandworm101 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

abroadwin wrote: post #11

I really hope pro subscriptions don't include ads going forward...

No. The real "pro" subscriptions are for those with money enough to pay for ads to be placed into other people's answers.

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by arm32 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

awesome_dude wrote: post #20

arm32 wrote: post #5

I'm confused. This is (publicly stated) the last resort for OpenAI, right?

Advertising is every site's last resort - but it's the only damn thing that pays the bills

Except this time, the bills are little bit higher!

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by bunnybomb2 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

arm32 wrote: post #5

I'm confused. This is (publicly stated) the last resort for OpenAI, right?

I though openAI has plenty of investors/users?

Are they really that much in debt/trouble?

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by moritzwarhier » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

arm32 wrote: post #5

I'm confused. This is (publicly stated) the last resort for OpenAI, right?

Didn't they do sort of a 270-degree turn on this when they abandoned erotica chatbots?

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by 128byte » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

kamranjon wrote: post #9

Pretty bold move to release this at the peak of the Open Models vs Proprietary Models debate. Feels like a really easy decision when it's framed this way.

Soon OpenAI will change the model output to include astroturfing!

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by CSMastermind » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

abroadwin wrote: post #11

I really hope pro subscriptions don't include ads going forward...

Eventually everything includes ads. It's just a question of time scale.

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by terribleperson » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

_override wrote: post #14

Is there any information available about which customers are going to be served ads? I would personally find it quite strange to be served ads if I'm paying tens or hundreds of USD per month for a ChatGPT subscription.

If other subscription services are anything to go by, I expect that business subscriptions will be free of ads. Personal subs will initially be free of ads, but ads will slowly be added, starting with the cheapest subscription and working their way up.

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by ofjcihen » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

kamranjon wrote: post #9

Pretty bold move to release this at the peak of the Open Models vs Proprietary Models debate. Feels like a really easy decision when it's framed this way.

Right? Complete speculation on my part but that makes this feel desperate.

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

#29

Post by Exoristos » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

I find this -- standard ads -- preferable to insinuating the same thing in the ChatGPT content itself. Although of course they'll do both.

Re: Advertise in ChatGPT

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Post by moralestapia » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

>with relevant ads that fit naturally into the experience

Funny, all the ads I've seen so far are so unrelated to my chat query that is laughable.

I thought it was random placement, but if there was supposed to be an effort behind that ... damn, quite an incompetent team.

Edit: And here come the downvotes from the OpenAI bots/lovers.