>only appear for free users

Why would advertisers prefer people without money to people with money?

RobertRies 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The question is flawed.

People who do not pay for ChatGPT often have money and prefer not to pay for for a subscription for several reasons including, but not exclusively: 1) They don't use ChatGPT often enough to justify it 2) They use alternatives primarily (a subset of #1) 3) They choose to spend their money on other things

	▲	46493168 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How can an advertiser tell the difference? Which is a stronger signal of having money: paying for something, or not paying for something? Furthermore, with all those reasons, why would advertisers prefer those people in ChatGPT? Advertisers are trying to change your behavior, usually to spend money the way they want you to. If you’re rarely using the service and don’t easily part with money, you’re probably less worth persuing than… well the person who is the opposite of those things.

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seattle_spring 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Plenty of free users have lots of money. Not wanting to pay for something != not being able to pay for something.

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smogcutter 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But being willing to pay for something is a pretty good indicator for being willing to pay for other things too.

	▲	tartoran an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Advertisers are salivating at paying users but paying users really don't want any advertising in their product because they're paying not to have any advertising. That does not mean somebody will not cave in and shove advertising in regardless.