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OpenAI disables ChatGPT app suggestions that looked like ads

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67 points GeorgeWoff25 | 2 comments | 07 Dec 25 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hamdingers ◴[07 Dec 25 16:47 UTC] No.46183038[source]▶
Wouldn't want to give out valuable ad space[1] for free now would we.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086771

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dmix ◴[07 Dec 25 17:02 UTC] No.46183144[source]▶
The issue in the article was paying customers complaining about ads. The ads OpenAI wants to roll out would likely be for free users, since the costs of training and running these LLM systems is very expensive.

From the tweet in your linked post:

> This could help OpenAI give free users more generous usage and features, while users on paid plans stay ad free, which fits with the high costs of running ChatGPT and the revenue they expect from shopping and ad related features

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1. PunchyHamster ◴[07 Dec 25 20:20 UTC] No.46184769[source]▶
> The issue in the article was paying customers complaining about ads.

They will just introduce cheaper, ad supported tier, price hike it to the previous price of ad-free tier and slow-boil the user base

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2. anticensor ◴[07 Dec 25 20:58 UTC] No.46185110[source]▶
There's no point doing that given the Responses API has to be ad-free unlike ChatGPT Web API for applications to function correctly (no way baking ads into responses sent to third party services using your language model just as a natural language processor), and you have to keep the Web API tiers that's more expensive than the same amount of tokens of equivalent Responses API use also ad-free becuase otherwise the "wrong way of payment" paradox would arise.