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ChatGPT Now Has Ads for Free and Go Tier Users

ChatGPT is the only one who made a 100% funtcioning app i use daily at work completetelt with prompt, as i am not a ptogrammer there isn’t a single line i touched.
Tryed the same with Gemini and Perplexity without luck, s for me GPT forever, it opened me possibilities I didn’t have before.
 
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Not that we should trust any big tech company as far as we can throw them but do we really believe that OpenAI's results aren't directly influenced by the sponsor? Like it just happened to suggest the same ingredients as the food as? Riiiight.
 
This is, of course, an humble and reasonable beginning.
The slippery slope will start right away. Brought to you by ACME lubricants and slippers.
 
Disappointing to see ads. Hopefully the other tiers won't be getting ads. Happy with the stance Anthropic has taken with Claude. An ad free experience is the best.
 
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switz said:
There is an amazing truth!

If one does not use any of this crud, you will not get adds nor have your personal information sold.

AI is all about getting your information by hook or by crook.
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I am not aware that chatbots need to be fed with personal information. Normally, you ask questions and give instructions... I don't understand how the transmitted prompts could be valuable and marketable. Please explain.
 
Some months ago, I was looking at some AI tools, specifically what ChatGPT finds when you ask questions in a particular area. One which I am very interested in.

The responses were truly terrible. Almost everything was wrong - names of products, where they were available, what the products even were.

Hence I could see why so many people were so often getting utterly confused. I was! And it was what you might call my specialist area.

For some reason I looked again yesterday. And some of the information was spot on! Absolutely amazing transformation. If it is this good, people will get good results.

Then I looked at the link to the sources it was using. My own website and documents! It is so small, only half-built, and insignificant, I was surprised that ChatGPT had nicked the data from there.

It goes to show that ChatGPT was unable to improve on my information. Which I collected and interpreted without the use of any AI. Mostly from knowing where to look - which in turn I must have found over the years from searches and links between sites.
 
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"Only as a last resort ..." Altman several months ago...

If they're not going to drastically reduce their losses soon - they'll disappear.
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Quite.

It is the way they seem to pretend that there will never be ads.

And that so many people try it out for free, then start to find that the cost is being forced to see ads, or pay a subscription (which will likely be substantial), or both. Someone has to pay.
 
O.N.Y.X said:
This is what’s being analyzed. On top of that how you phrase your questions/instructions. The style and speed of your typing, where/when you pause or stop.
The more you prompt the clearer the picture of you gets. And a picture of you (ANY picture) can and will be sold.
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On the one hand, it would be news to me that ChatGPT has a built-in keylogger that analyzes my typing behavior in detail... On the other hand, there are probably easier and clearer ways to obtain usable information than by analyzing prompts. If you have a specific idea, please let me know how my 20 daily queries regarding programming and random general knowledge can be used to create a personal profile that would be of value to third parties.
 
Since ChatGPT isn’t open source I am assuming it has keylogging capabilities. And if it does, why not make use of it especially on the free tier. As of now the developers desperately need to make money, that’s why they ought to do whatever it takes to create revenue.
 
I actually don't mind this. I mean the idea of "I should just get this for free" is really a symptom of the entitlement society.

I pay for ChatGPT Plus (and for Anthropic, and for Google AI Pro)... I get way more value than I am paying for... shouldn't say this, but I'd pay 2 or 3x.

My partner uses ChatGPT for key parts of her work in sales development... she uses the free version. I tell her the company (or even herself) should just pay (she hits limits on occasion)... now she's complaining about ads coming. I mean this tool gives you a co-worker that generates output far better than you would and has delivered results...

WTF folks? And if you're just "having fun with it"... well then some ads shouldn't be an issue.

Side Note: Despise Altman and think he's a canonical d-bag.
 
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Probably unavoidable, but still *****. GPT/LLM are even more personal than search engines and probably just as close as the iDevices are – and as such should have more privacy built in, not opt for the "§$%&/( Google / Meta fork in the road. The future hopefully will be lighter models that run locally.
 
I don't want ads, I don't want to pay not to see ads; it really is an Apple owner thing more than any other group.
 
> U.S. ChatGPT users who have a free account or a low-cost Go subscription will start seeing ads starting today

I thought the Go plan was for low-income countries. How does a US ChatGPT user have a Go subscription?
 
O.N.Y.X said:
Since ChatGPT isn’t open source I am assuming it has keylogging capabilities. And if it does, why not make use of it especially on the free tier. As of now the developers desperately need to make money, that’s why they ought to do whatever it takes to create revenue.
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So you are able to analyse any open source code and confirm that it is secure. Impressive! But if you don't know something, you shouldn't start imagining things and talking nonsense. Everything you need to know about data protection at ChatGPT can be found in the privacy policy. Anything else is pure fantasy.
 
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