I think it's a matter of public perception and user sentiment. You don't want to shove ads into a product that people are already complaining about. And you don't want the media asking questions like why you rolled out a "health assistant" at the same time you were scrambling to address major safety, reliability, and legal challenges.

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stanford_labrat 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

chatgpt making targeted "recommendations" (read ads) is a nightmare. especially if it's subtle and not disclosed.

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tracerbulletx 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The end game is its a sales person and not only is it suggesting things to you undisclosed. It's using all of the emotional mechanisms that a sales person uses to get you to act.

	▲	boringg 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		100% end game - no way to finance all this AI development without ads sadly - % of sales isn't going to be enough - we will eventually get the natural enshittification of chatbots as with all things that go through these funding models.

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HPsquared 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It'll be hard to separate them out from the block of prose. It's not like Google results where you can highlight the sponsored ones.

	▲	lukan 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Of course you can. As long as the model itself is not filled with ads, every agentic processing on top can be customly made. One block the true content. The next block the visually marked ad content "personalized" by a different model based on the user profile. That is not scary to me. What will be scary is the thought, that the lines get more and more blurry and people already emotionally invested in their ChatGPT therapeuts won't all purchase the premium add free (or add less) versions and will have their new therapeut will give them targeted shopping, investment and voting advice.
	▲	boringg 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean google does everything possible to blur that line while still trying to say that it is telling you it is an ad.

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cortesoft 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Exactly. This is more about “the product isn’t good enough yet to survive the enshittification effect of adding ads.”