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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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Post by techdragon »

I cannot fathom a single faster way to annihilate all the brand goodwill they have earned than to begin inserting advertisements into ChatGPT output… short of ChatGPT spewing Nazi slogans in German like a pop up advertisement of WW2 era black and white Hitler rally… that’s about the level of “how fast this will destroy your customers good will”… people using ChatGPT on GPT4 are paying customers… if you inject advertising into paying customers who are already rate limited and unable to use VPNs and unable to fully use the model due to risk of getting banned if they red team and try pushing boundaries, and have a CEO who is rapidly trying to get a seat on the US Olympic bullshit artist team…

OpenAI are either blind, hypnotised by their own hype, utterly mismanaged, or fucking stupid… and I’d feel pretty safe putting my money on mismanaged base of the current nonsense coming from Sam Altman…

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Post by messe »

techdragon wrote: post #3

I cannot fathom a single faster way to annihilate all the brand goodwill they have earned than to begin inserting advertisements into ChatGPT output… short of ChatGPT spewing Nazi slogans in German like a pop up advertisement of WW2 era black and white Hitler rally… that’s about the level of “how fast this will destroy your customers good will”… people using ChatGPT on GPT4 are paying customers… if you inject adverti…

> OpenAI are either blind, hypnotised by their own hype, utterly mismanaged, or fucking stupid

None of these are mutually exclusive.

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Post by seydor »

techdragon wrote: post #3

I cannot fathom a single faster way to annihilate all the brand goodwill they have earned than to begin inserting advertisements into ChatGPT output… short of ChatGPT spewing Nazi slogans in German like a pop up advertisement of WW2 era black and white Hitler rally… that’s about the level of “how fast this will destroy your customers good will”… people using ChatGPT on GPT4 are paying customers… if you inject adverti…

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Post by ReptileMan »

techdragon wrote: post #3

I cannot fathom a single faster way to annihilate all the brand goodwill they have earned than to begin inserting advertisements into ChatGPT output… short of ChatGPT spewing Nazi slogans in German like a pop up advertisement of WW2 era black and white Hitler rally… that’s about the level of “how fast this will destroy your customers good will”… people using ChatGPT on GPT4 are paying customers… if you inject adverti…

I think you overestimate how much Nazis are hated compared to ads.

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

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Post by sebzim4500 »

I've generated a few responses to that exact prompt and did not receive ads.

Is it possible that there are instructions in OP's custom message (that you can now set in settings) that make it add links to the responses? Maybe he asks for citations and this is how GPT-4 interpreted that?

Let's be reasonable here: if the OpenAI advertising salesmen were so prolific that three different manufacturers of GPS electronics were all sponsoring them we would definitely know about it.

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