Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

bleepingcomputer.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

551–560 of 763 posts

Re: Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

#551

Post by neya »

aurareturn wrote: post #14

- ~1 billion users in just 3 years - Extremely personal data on users - Novel way of introducing and learning more about sponsored products - Strong branding for non-techie people (most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are) - An app that is getting more and more addictive/indispensable I think OpenAI is going to kill it in ads eventually. This is why Meta and Google went all in on AI. Their lucrative di…

I'm ok with having ads for free users, many of us saw this coming. What I'm really afraid of and knowing how this industry works, AI advising/gaslighting users into buying useless stuff in the guise of advice is NOT ok.

Imagine you ask ChatGPT about coffee beans and it goes into insane detail about finding the right coffee bean and then it slips in a "btw, here's a couple of good coffee bean brands: A, B, C..."

That's super scary since your trust factor with the AI is really high and it already knows it and is actively exploiting it. I would imagine even paid users might be subject to this without them ever knowing/finding out.

This is why open-weight open-source models are extremely important.

Re: Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

#552

Post by rtpg »

aurareturn wrote: post #14

- ~1 billion users in just 3 years - Extremely personal data on users - Novel way of introducing and learning more about sponsored products - Strong branding for non-techie people (most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are) - An app that is getting more and more addictive/indispensable I think OpenAI is going to kill it in ads eventually. This is why Meta and Google went all in on AI. Their lucrative di…

they're going to compete on ad unit economics against a company whose entire bread and butter has been selling ads. All while increasing unit costs to provide their service (like all the AI companies seem to be doing by just having more and more planning layers)

If ChatGPT went away tomorrow everyone who wanted to would be fine just moving to one of the other random chatbots from one of the other providers. ChatGPT is the default name that people know, but I don't think that's the same as a moat. A moat would allow OpenAI to go really hard on pricing and ads, and I don't think they have that margin!

Re: Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

#553

Post by hattmall »

beefnugs wrote: post #540
materielle wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think investors would certainly love this. So why hasn’t it already happened? My guess: they would lose a ton of cultural cachet. Turning OpenAI into an ads business is basically admitting that AGI isn’t coming down the pipeline anytime soon. Yes, I know people will make some cost-based argument that ads + agi is perfectly logical. But that’s not how people will perceive things, and OpenAI knows this. And I think t…

It also is impossible to work properly: either they also screwup the entire API to break everyones programmatic access to coding and regular apps, or else everyone just starts making wrappers around the API to make without-ad-chatbots

Why would they need ads on API though, API is paid usage. They just need a few years of scaling for it to be profitable. Some models are already a net profit on API usage.

Re: Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

#556

Post by overgard »

aurareturn wrote: post #14

- ~1 billion users in just 3 years - Extremely personal data on users - Novel way of introducing and learning more about sponsored products - Strong branding for non-techie people (most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are) - An app that is getting more and more addictive/indispensable I think OpenAI is going to kill it in ads eventually. This is why Meta and Google went all in on AI. Their lucrative di…

Sam has a pattern of, uh, not being exactly honest

Re: Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

#557

Post by conception »

bentcorner wrote: post #62
mpalmer wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The metered APIs aren't going anywhere... one hopes

While that's true even today there really isn't a product that wraps that API that is as simple to use as any of the major chat applications. I've used OpenUI and it's fine but it's incredibly fiddly to configure and web integration is almost nonexistent (this was as of a few months ago so maybe it's better today).

I find https://msty.ai to be significantly better than any of the major chat applications. It has a ton of qol improvements.

Re: Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

#558

Post by cobertos »

esaym wrote: post #555
siliconc0w wrote: post #554

The second I suspect the advice I'm getting is designed to steer me toward an advertiser rather than the best answer - I'm out.

You'll be back.

There are too many alternatives. And with something like OpenRouter it should be easy to switch (for those who use it)

There's also the option to self-host. Anyone who cares about their own self-determinination should be looking into this

Re: Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

#559

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

aurareturn wrote: post #14

- ~1 billion users in just 3 years - Extremely personal data on users - Novel way of introducing and learning more about sponsored products - Strong branding for non-techie people (most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are) - An app that is getting more and more addictive/indispensable I think OpenAI is going to kill it in ads eventually. This is why Meta and Google went all in on AI. Their lucrative di…

Snapchat is nearing 1 billion monthly users. Why can't it turn a profit?

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-26/snapchat-s...

Re: Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

#560

Post by aurareturn »

kgwgk wrote: post #474
aurareturn wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think OpenAI has claimed they have AGI?

Maybe not having it but being really close to that and knowing how to build it. "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies."

Hasn't the happened? Plenty of companies are working and experimenting with agents.
Post reply on HN