Not sure why this is a headline; ChatGPT served me ads a few weeks ago.

I was asking it what type of Teflon tape to use for a project, and it "helpfully" gave me sponsored links to purchase the Teflon tape. (I never asked for links, I strictly asked it which to use)

We will enter into cold war where local small-ish LLMs are used to remove ads from results of the big ones.

It's gonna be hilarious aside from the modest extra CO2 it produces