💰 ChatGPT Is Getting Ads

Initially, only for free users and subscribers on the Go plan from the U.S. OpenAI insists that the ads will be non-intrusive, clearly labeled, will not influence the content of the bot's answers, and conversations with the AI will not be shared with advertisers.

The appearance of advertising itself did not come as a surprise—rumors about this have been circulating for the last few months. At the same time, for a long time, leadership—including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—stated that introducing ads into ChatGPT was an extreme and undesirable measure. But without this step, the company likely has no future.

Currently, out of 900 million ChatGPT users, only about 5% are paid subscribers. According to The Information, OpenAI hopes to turn a profit by at least 2030. Still, by then it will have posted a loss of $115 billion. Advertising is one option to at least partially cover cloud computing costs, estimated at $450 billion.

Will ads affect your use of ChatGPT?

❤️ — No, I will use it with ads
🔥 — Yes, I will buy a paid subscription
🎃 — Yes, I will switch to another service