ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'
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ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'
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#3It's hard not to see the sort of flailing about with acquisitions and choices as anything but a lack of confidence.
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#4Ads 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.
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#5If 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...
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#6Ads 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.
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#7If 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.
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#8Sadly, this doesn't surprise me. ChatGPT is scam tech that doesn't have a way of making legitimate revenue.
Re: ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'
#9Once 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 in chat as suggestions? So “active” ads on response?
Why not go the approach of passive background “agentic” ad suggestions like, “hey, we know X, Y, and Z about you - would you like us to monitor certain brands related to your interests for deals and allow advertisers to pitch these deals to you?” And make these hyper specific so you can opt in.
I, like many people who dabble with music as a hobby, have GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) - why not let me toggle something like “ok, I don’t want ads, but if any of your partnered brands have a sale or good deal on X, feel free to email me, and use your ChatGPT smarts to pitch me on why it’s a good deal and how it suits my current gear set up”
I used ChatGPT to set up my guitar pedal board so surely this isn’t a huge leap.
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#10Advertising is a two way street into the content and meaning behind your otherwise private conversations with a chatbot.