OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

Post by tokioyoyo » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:05 AM UTC

qsera wrote: post #97

Ads? Where we are going, we won't need Ads. People seem to be missing the fact that businesses won't need ads anymore. It would be like pharmas gifting doctors and practitioners to prescribe their products. Those are not Ads. With LLMs the every business can do it. People "consult" LLMs like they used to "consult" doctors and thus would be forced to obey what ever it suggest. Just like right now people are forced to…

Post by JimsonYang » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:16 AM UTC

eswdd wrote: post #69

JimsonYang wrote: post #64

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Tbh it doesn’t even need that. Just a way for advertisers to say “I want to target people who have bought peanut butter in the last 2 weeks”(I’m a jelly seller). That alone would beat FB and Google. ChatGPT is collecting your data fs so advertisers can go ultra niche targeting

Advertiser's on Google and Meta et al are not really paying for visibility - they are paying to achieve some objective (e.g. sales) that is directly tied to a campaign. That's why digital advertising is so much more powerful than non-digital. The question is, will LLM's as an interface be worth the spend in relation to converting without throwing users of chatGPT off over-time, all whilst, doing it within the regulat…

Post by ipdashc » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:21 AM UTC

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #39

cs702 wrote: post #32

How I imagine the Nash equilibrium in chatbot ads, driven by profit-seeking in a race to the bottom: User: "What's the best way to fix this problem I have?" Chatbot: "I recommend buying this shiny thing here." (Next to it, there's a near-invisible light-gray "ad" notice.) Let's hope I'm wrong.

Look at Google in 2000s. If you travel back in time you would’ve never thought Google would do something like it is doing today. Now pretend you travelled back in time to 2026. You would’ve never thought OpenAI (open source non profit company) would do something crazy that it just did in 2030 or 2040 or where you came from.

Post by parineum » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:24 AM UTC

potamic wrote: post #124

d0odk wrote: post #107

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it's not securities fraud if investors make a lot of money

For every investor who has made money, there is another who has lost an equal amount. Money cannot be created, it can only change hands!

Post by grey-area » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:32 AM UTC

mikepurvis wrote: post #115

FWIW, I've gone to ChatGPT multiple times with a specific intent to buy, like "hey I need a thing like X or Y, but with quality Z too" and sometimes it just hallucinates things that appear never to have existed, other times it comes up with real items, but the links it gives me to buy them lead nowhere, so I end up just googling the name of it and buying it that way (examples: computer monitor, power bar, USB charge…