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Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

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Re: Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

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The pragmatic side of me wonders if there is any way to shape this inevitable future now so we might see a better outcome 20 years.

Unplug

In all seriousness. Windows is invaded by copilot, OpenAI introducing ads, Google providing Siri for Apple, it’s all just a collusion to keep you buying. Disconnect. From TV, Media, Ads, Social Networks, Predatory subscriptions, all of it. The only way to show these companies that we are not on board with this is to not participate.

Re: Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

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I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers, even the expensive paid ones. Ad revenue isn't uniformly distributed across users, but rather heavily skewed towards the wealthiest users, exactly the users most able to purchase an ad-free experience. The users paying $20 or $200/month for premium tiers of ChatGPT are precisely the ones you don't want to exclude from generating ad revenue.

Google realized this a long time ago; there is no ad-free paid version of Google Search.

Re: Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

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I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers, even the expensive paid ones. Ad revenue isn't uniformly distributed across users, but rather heavily skewed towards the wealthiest users, exactly the users most able to purchase an ad-free experience. The users paying $20 or $200/month for premium tiers of ChatGPT are precisely the ones you don't want to exclude from generating ad revenue. Google realized this a…

> I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers, even the expensive paid ones.

The counter for this is that people hate being double-billed like this.

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