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OpenAI tries ads in ChatGPT — but it won’t save them (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Sam Altman desperately scraping pennies together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEI5N3U3Mqo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260429-openai-tries-ads-in-chatgpt-it-wont-save-them - podcast

time: 8 min 34 sec

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[–] lurker@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All roads lead to ads

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to prioritize sponsored information in ChatGPT’s responses when users ask relevant queries

Hope people realize that this doesnt stop at ads. (Preaching to the choir here). See Grok.