Quite honestly I wouldn’t even trust the paid tiers to remain free of advertiser interests. Maybe at enterprise level AI companies might be more careful but at paid individual consumer level why not? It’s not like it meaningfully changes the chances of it being discovered and if it somehow is it’s not like people are going to be ok with it if it’s “just the free tier”. Upper income level spenders are becoming a larger and larger portion of consumer spending these days anyways.
Agreed. I think this is merely testing the waters. If they don't see much churn but remain unable to cover costs, they might put ads in Plus (Go will have ads and it's paid, just slightly cheaper at $8/month).
Some deep thinking there, followed by decisive behaviour. I have only been using ChatGPT recently for the occasional pretty picture. I would probably follow your example since Claude and DeepSeek are more than adequate substitutes.
The key issues is whether or not the LLM uses anything about paying advertisers as input.
The press release implies not and I'm inclined to believe it.
If they do I would expect it to be quite obvious and for OpenAI to be called out on it in a way that would be a marketing and PR disaster.
I suspect that the ads will be selected by post processing the conversation (together with cookies) and I don't see why this should bother anyone (apart from the basic dislike of ads). From the advertisers point of view it should still generate more clicks than the current cookie system used throughout the web and from the users point of view the ads will be more relevant and not affect the output
Why would it bother anyone that OpenAI uses an intimate conversation to better target an ad? Not everyone wants to be sold things according to everything they talk about. Besides, although I also believe what they say (aside of the weak-strong dichotomy I explained), this is a slippery slope. If this kind of ads doesn't work for users (too obvious/annoying) then OpenAI might take it a step further, adding the ads to the conversation in a more insidious way but also less detectable by users. I don't think they will go that far unless... Unless they're on the verge of dying. As a "last resort"
Quite honestly I wouldn’t even trust the paid tiers to remain free of advertiser interests. Maybe at enterprise level AI companies might be more careful but at paid individual consumer level why not? It’s not like it meaningfully changes the chances of it being discovered and if it somehow is it’s not like people are going to be ok with it if it’s “just the free tier”. Upper income level spenders are becoming a larger and larger portion of consumer spending these days anyways.
Agreed. I think this is merely testing the waters. If they don't see much churn but remain unable to cover costs, they might put ads in Plus (Go will have ads and it's paid, just slightly cheaper at $8/month).
They’ll put ads in paid tiers as well. Wait for it.
Possibly… they seem to be up against the ropes
Users will flow to the last llm that is free and no ads.
Then (as others have mentioned) There will be embedded ads like there is in some netflix/ prime series.
Or you pay for no ads like prime / netflix / ....
Yes, I hope at least one company remains true to their word and keeps the business model a subscription one rather than ads
Some deep thinking there, followed by decisive behaviour. I have only been using ChatGPT recently for the occasional pretty picture. I would probably follow your example since Claude and DeepSeek are more than adequate substitutes.
Good choice, Claude is definitely better!
The key issues is whether or not the LLM uses anything about paying advertisers as input.
The press release implies not and I'm inclined to believe it.
If they do I would expect it to be quite obvious and for OpenAI to be called out on it in a way that would be a marketing and PR disaster.
I suspect that the ads will be selected by post processing the conversation (together with cookies) and I don't see why this should bother anyone (apart from the basic dislike of ads). From the advertisers point of view it should still generate more clicks than the current cookie system used throughout the web and from the users point of view the ads will be more relevant and not affect the output
Why would it bother anyone that OpenAI uses an intimate conversation to better target an ad? Not everyone wants to be sold things according to everything they talk about. Besides, although I also believe what they say (aside of the weak-strong dichotomy I explained), this is a slippery slope. If this kind of ads doesn't work for users (too obvious/annoying) then OpenAI might take it a step further, adding the ads to the conversation in a more insidious way but also less detectable by users. I don't think they will go that far unless... Unless they're on the verge of dying. As a "last resort"