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OpenAI disables ChatGPT app suggestions that looked like ads

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67 points GeorgeWoff25 | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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lagniappe ◴[07 Dec 25 17:05 UTC] No.46183167[source]▶
If they think they're anywhere close to being far enough "in the lead" to force ads on paying customers, they're mistaken.

Also, stop with the "wE FeLlL ShOrT", corporate platitudes mean nothing in 2025. We know you don't feel that way, you know you don't feel that way, cut the bs.

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1. silenced_trope ◴[07 Dec 25 17:15 UTC] No.46183258[source]▶
They're never going to be far enough in the lead, they had a first mover advantage a couple years ago but the gap is never going to be that large again.

Once a major player just decides "ok we're going ads for free users" the rest of the industry will follow and have an easier time doing so.

I think if they wanted to do this they should have just taken the flack, free users of the product are a drain and they can't cave to them. Eventually free users will "get over it" and if OpenAI opens the ads flood-gate then all the other free-to-use LLMs will be ads based as well and non-paying users won't have an ads-free place to go.