> Facebook and Google aren't rich from selling ads, they're rich from all of the ad infrastructure and quite frankly their ability to follow you around on the internet.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/

> Besides, how are ads on ChatGPT supposed to work?

"How do I do XYZ?" "Product ABC can do XYZ for you."

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burningChrome 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Which then begs the question if I was the user: "Am I being served an ad or is ChatGPT taking in a bunch of product information and giving me an objective answer to what I'm looking for?"

This would create a ton of hesitation to use this for product recommendations if I knew ChatGPT wasn't using its extensive input for products and reviews and coming back with an objective answer for me.

I guess at this point would we even know the difference? Is it possible this is already happening?

	▲	treis 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's what Google does today and they're the 4th most valuable company in the world.

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XorNot 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Would you use an LLM knowing it will never answer honestly and any recommendation is likely a sponsored one?

	▲	kemotep 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hell is it going to start injecting ads into coding output? Ask Codex to generate you a fix for your web app and it spits out a number for a web hosting service? Give it a Jira ticket and it gives you an ad for a different SaaS ticketing system? Is it going to inject ads for indeed while a recruiter is using ChatGPT to summarize a stack of resumes? If it only ever injects ads for specific requests how profitable would that even be? I understand clients would want their product to be recommended but if I only get the ad answer when prompting a certain way, can I the user avoid ads by asking questions a specific way?
	▲	Zambyte 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't matter. Will a substantial portion of the population? Unfortunately it's not something the average person makes an active decision about, understanding the situation.