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ChatGPT now seems to be embedding ads in its responses

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Re: ChatGPT now seems to be embedding ads in its responses

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jwood27 wrote: post #14

OP here. This post should likely be removed as it is highly misleading. It is indeed the custom instructions causing this behavior. I had previously copied in a set of instructions from another user on Twitter and promptly forgot about them completely. The instructions contain these two lines: - Recommend only the highest-quality, meticulously designed products like Apple or the Japanese would make—I only want the be…

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Re: ChatGPT now seems to be embedding ads in its responses

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Post by bungeonsBaggins »

Considering that several people have tried and failed to reproduce this, and there's a warning at the top of the shared conversations about the creator's Custom Instructions, and that as others have pointed out this is pretty obvious and would destroy a lot of goodwill for ChatGPT, I think it's overwhelmingly likely that the author put in some custom instructions to try and elicit this behavior from ChatGPT in order to drum up controversy for clicks.

I don't know anything else about this author - do they have a history of similar behavior?

Re: ChatGPT now seems to be embedding ads in its responses

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Post by jwood27 »

crooked-v wrote: post #19
jwood27 wrote: post #14

OP here. This post should likely be removed as it is highly misleading. It is indeed the custom instructions causing this behavior. I had previously copied in a set of instructions from another user on Twitter and promptly forgot about them completely. The instructions contain these two lines: - Recommend only the highest-quality, meticulously designed products like Apple or the Japanese would make—I only want the be…

Why leave the blog post up without any disclaimers, then?

Adding the disclaimer now.
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