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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: 0s | source
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michaelt ◴[07 Dec 25 17:30 UTC] No.46183388[source]▶
> OpenAI has disabled a feature in ChatGPT that suggested third-party applications [...] “There are no live tests for ads – any screenshots you’ve seen are either not real or not ads,” Mr Turley wrote.

Here's what people were seeing: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1995357492713570735

Looks pretty clear-cut to me - that's an advert for peloton.

And someone who decompiled a recent version of the chatgpt android app https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligenc... found new classes like 'com.openai.feature.ads.data.AdTarget' and 'com.openai.feature.ads.data.SearchAdsCarousel'

That peloton received the advertising "free with your purchase of platform services" doesn't mean it's not an advert.

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nialv7 ◴[07 Dec 25 18:38 UTC] No.46183930[source]▶
> "There are no live tests for ads"

Do they really think we would just believe whatever they say? Do they think we don't have the ability to think for ourselves. The utter disrespect...

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