Hold onto your keyboards, ChatGPT fans 🖐️—OpenAI just announced last Friday that it will start testing ads in ChatGPT's free tier and its now-global Go plan in the coming weeks.
Here's the deal: if you’re using ChatGPT on the free or Go plan, you may notice sponsored suggestions at the bottom of your answers. Don’t worry—these ads are separate from ChatGPT's responses, and conversation privacy is staying intact👌.
Subscribers to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise won't see any ads. Premium perks remain ad-free as a thank-you for paying up. Meanwhile, OpenAI is under pressure to fund its next-gen AI labs and a big IPO on the horizon. Rumor has it, the company aims to spend over $1 trillion on AI infrastructure by 2030, so extra cash flow is key 💸.
OpenAI promises these tests will avoid sensitive topics like health and politics, and users under 18 won't see any ads. If a sponsored product or service lines up with your chat, you might spot it—but only when it feels relevant 🤝.
Not everyone’s pumped about ads, though. Some users could jump ship to rivals like Google's Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude if ads feel intrusive. On the flip side, advertisers are excited about AI-powered ad targeting. It’s a new frontier for the digital ad game 🌐✨.
Whether you’re team ad or team ad-free, ChatGPT’s coming changes are worth watching. Stay tuned, and let us know: would ads in your AI chats bother you? 🤔💬
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
