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If it can talk people into suicide [0] then surely it can talk them into buying stuff. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...
In all of these stories I've never seen it talk anybody into suicide. It failed to talk people out of it, and was generally sycophantic, but that's something completely different.
Between Claude and Gemini it just wasnt needed.
Will openai be the MySpace of this era?
Once ads start to make their way up to the Plus paid tiers (and they will), I’ll probably switch to something else like local LLM on my home machine or put something together myself to use a non adware LLM via API (for example with Replicate). Especially if these are just intended to be spammy blocks at bottom or in between discussion threads, or worse, audio conversations. From what I’ve read, this will be about ads…
Ads are just the capitalist's patriotic ascent into the "I know this is useless to society, but people sure love to talk about it!" capitalization.
Ads appear to be the only way to monotone certain cervices or products which people are otherwise unwilling/unable to pay for.
ChatGPT with ads (in this initial proposed form) still seems better than Gemini with these stupid video recommendations I can't turn off, because they do influence the answer itself (the model itself might give me less details just to make me watch the video).
Ads are just the capitalist's patriotic ascent into the "I know this is useless to society, but people sure love to talk about it!" capitalization.
Ads appear to be the only way to monotone certain cervices or products which people are otherwise unwilling/unable to pay for.
This puts a practical floor on any $X/month model.
If it can talk people into suicide [0] then surely it can talk them into buying stuff. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...
Sad but true - just wait for adult conversation mode - wonder how the Trump govt is going react to this considering his ties to the Evangelicals.
If it can talk people into suicide [0] then surely it can talk them into buying stuff. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...
> talk people into suicide In all of these stories I've never seen it talk anybody into suicide. It failed to talk people out of it, and was generally sycophantic, but that's something completely different.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...
In some cases, the LLM may start from a skepticism or discouragement, but they go along with what the user prompts. That's in comparison to services like 988, where the goal is to keep the person talking and work them through a moment of crisis, regardless of how insistent they are. LLMs are not a replacement for these services, but it's pretty clear they need to be forced into providing this sort of assistance because users are using them this way.