Who didn’t see this coming? I swear, all we produce as a country is bullshit and ads to cover it up.
ChatGPT will start including advertisements beside answers for US users as OpenAI seeks a new revenue stream.
The ads will be tested first in ChatGPT for US users only, the company announced on Friday, after increasing speculation that the San Francisco firm would turn to a potential cashflow model on top of its current subscriptions.
The ads will start in the coming weeks and will be included above or below, rather than within, answers. Mock-ups circulated by the company show the ads in a tinted box. They will be served to adult users “when there’s a relevant sponsored product or service based on your current conversation”, according to OpenAI’s announcement. Ads will not be shown to users under 18 and will not appear alongside answers related to sensitive topics such as health, mental health or politics. Users will be able to click to learn about why they received a particular ad, according to OpenAI.
Good thing I don’t use it.
Good thing I’m not in US.
I used it for work to paraphrase individual grafs when doing rewrites of press releases so that I could avoid unintentional plagiarism (it’s sort of a grind where that can slip in). But I have no purpose for it now.
- doesn’t want to unintentionally plagiarize
- uses the plagiarism machine
I still did my own writing. It was just a way to be one step removed from wording of the source material. I checked carefully to make sure it hadn’t gone off on a fanciful excursion.
We all know it’s going to be bad. In fact, I expect hilarious results.
Ask for pizza recipes, get an ad for Elmer’s Glue.
Surely the most obvious business model is blackmail of the users with the sensitive information they’ve handed over?
I wonder if this is going to affect all those companies that have ChatGPT-powered customer agents.
It would be very funny to receive an ad for a competitor while trying to get help for something from the company that makes it.
You can easily block these ads by never using the slop engine
Lmao
Can’t wait for it to turn its latest travesty Suicide Goodnight Moon into an ad for rope.
This stuff’s made in New York City!
