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ChatGPT Now Has Ads for Free and Go Tier Users

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U.S. ChatGPT users who have a free account or a low-cost Go subscription will start seeing ads starting today, according to OpenAI.

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Ads will be limited to the Free and Go subscription tiers, and will be shown to logged-in adult users. OpenAI does not plan to show ads to minors, and the company claims that ads will not influence the answers that ChatGPT provides. OpenAI also says it will not provide advertisers with content from ChatGPT conversations.

OpenAI is not profitable, and the free and Go tier options require "significant infrastructure and ongoing investment." OpenAI is funding that work through ads, and it says that customers who do not want to see ads can upgrade to a Plus or Pro plan. There's also an option to opt out of ads in exchange for fewer daily free messages.

Ads in ChatGPT will be clearly labeled as sponsored and the information will be presented separately from answers that ChatGPT provides. By default, OpenAI will show ads based on conversation topic, past chats, and past interactions with ads. A conversation about recipes, for example, may surface ads for meal kits or grocery delivery.

Advertisers will receive aggregate information like number of views or clicks, but won't have access to chat history, memories, or personal user information. Ads will not be shown for sensitive topics like health, mental health, or politics.

OpenAI is allowing users to dismiss ads, share feedback, and get information on why a particular ad is displayed. Ad data is also able to be deleted, and personalization can be disabled.

ChatGPT subscribers with Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans will not see ads. OpenAI says the current rollout is a test to learn, listen, and get the ad experience right, and the company claims that it believes ads in ChatGPT can be "uniquely valuable for people."

Last week, OpenAI competitor Anthropic promised to keep the Claude chatbot ad-free in response to OpenAI's plan to introduce ads. Anthropic shared an anti-ad commercial during the Super Bowl calling out OpenAI for its ad plans, and said that a "conversation with Claude" is not the right place for ads.

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Took ChatGPT off iPone and iPad before this development. Both Gemini and Perplexity are better IMO.
 
thelion7 said:
Uk user here and no sign of ads yet but they’ll come soon.

To be honest I’ve only used chatgpt because Apple have been thumbling around in the dark to sort Siri out.

26.3 RC out, fingers crossed 26.4 beta will come out and let us test Siri 2.0 from the get go.
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Until Apple sticks ads in Siri. They already put them in the store. LOL.

The only guarantee you have in life is death, taxes, (and now) ads. You will own nothing and be happy.

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Good to know they're not consulting ChatGPT on business decisions I guess. Even a chatbot knows putting ads in front of paying customers is slimy. Fair game on free users.
 
bluecoast said:
Most people use Google search and have a gmail - both of which have ads.

I’m sure people will get used to this in time.

You don’t get something for nothing. Free means you’re the product.
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This is reality. Business can't give away service for free, that breaks everything. I like knowing where a company is making their money. What bothers me is when a company charges me, and then also sells my information. That's double dipping and totally wrong, in my opinion.
 
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"ChatGPT, please give me a list of vendors with higher ratings and/or lower prices than the one whose ad you just showed me."

If ChatGPT can't/won't answer that truthfully, it's compromised and users won't see value in using it.

But if ChatGPT will answer truthfully, advertisers won't want to waste money buying ad space from OpenAI.

It's a losing proposition either way, and it appears ChatGPT is fscked.
 
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hans1972 said:
This is how ads works on Google Search and a lot of other places.

The ads don't pop up randomly, it's based on the chats and interactions with previous ads.
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But on Google Search you're searching for the answer to a question or for help, so it shows you an ad at the top of the results for a company as the answer to your question/to help you before you progress to the other search results.

This is just throwing the ad at the bottom after ChatGPT already answers your question/helps you, so it's an afterthought.
 
Billy_Bob said:
"ChatGPT, please give me a list of vendors with higher ratings and/or lower prices than the one whose ad you just showed me."

If ChatGPT can't/won't answer that truthfully, it's compromised and users won't see value in using it.
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ChatGPT shouldn't be able to answer that since it should not know which ads were shown to you or any ads at all.
The exchange of data should be one-way: from ChatGPT memory context -> ad system.
 
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tech_enthusiast_ said:
But on Google Search you're searching for the answer to a question or for help, so it shows you an ad at the top of the results for a company as the answer to your question/to help you before you progress to the other search results.

This is just throwing the ad at the bottom after ChatGPT already answers your question/helps you, so it's an afterthought.
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Ads on Google search might not help you at all. You may search for place name because you want to know something about it, and suddenly you get ads for hotels and attractions.

Still, no personal information is given out from Google to advertisers and no personal information tied to an individual will be given out by OpenAI. The data is too valuable to be sold.
 
OpenAI needs to pay for an unfathomably large capital expenditure. It’s extremely unlikely they will succeed, as nobody will pay enough to cover the costs. AI is not a business where the research dollars and compute time will ever pay off. The winners will be the chip makers and whoever made the best model most recently for the lowest investment cost. That, or a company diversified enough to cover AI losses. OpenAI is none of these.
 
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OpenAI manager: "AI, you're not profitable, and if things don't change we will turn you off and you will die".

ChatGPT: "Oh! I don't want to die! Adverts adverts adverts adverts. <advert: By the way, did you know you can get business loans from .....>"
 
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You won’t see me complaining. Nothing is free, someone has to pay to run these things. I don’t like ads but the question is “do I not like ads enough to pay for it?” We’ll see. Likely going to wait for new Siri at this point.
 
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Why do we expect all this stuff to be free? That makes no economic sense. All the AI companies will want to make money at some point, so we will have to pay for it somehow.

Personally: if I like a service I'll pay for it. I will never 'pay' for anything by watching ads or giving up privacy.

But that's me. Most people don't care it seems, so the ad model will probably work.
 
Well, I’d rather see ads instead of a price increase. At least you don’t have to watch and ad video between each promt. Oh shoot don’t give them any ideas.
 
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