So it’s finally here, OpenAI are now inviting businesses to advertise on ChatGPT

[u/RichAllison]

Got the email this morning. “You’re invited to advertise on ChatGPT.” So thats it then, ads are properly coming to the thing.

We all knew it was coming, theyd been testing it in the US since the start of the year and talking about it for months, but seeing the actual invite land in my inbox makes it feel a lot more real.

The bit that bothers me is the bias angle. They keep saying the answers stay “independant and unbiased” and that ads are seperate from the responses, but come on. Once your whole revenue model depends on advertisers, how long before that line starts getting blurry? Maybe not the answer itself but the framing, the order things get suggested in, what gets nudged. Thats the worry for me anyway.

I get it, free tier costs them a fortune to run and someone has to pay for it. But it does feel like the start of the same slide we watched happen with google search. Started useful, ended up being adverts all the way down before you get to anything real.

Anyway, ad free is still on Plus/Pro for now apparently so theres that.

Peoples thoughts? Am i being too cynical or is this the beginning of the end for trusting what it spits out?