Is OpenAI Preparing to Bring Ads to ChatGPT? (bleepingcomputer.com)
(Sunday November 30, 2025 @11:34AM (EditorDavid)
from the ads-and-subtracts dept.)
- Reference: 0180241095
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/30/0510248/is-openai-preparing-to-bring-ads-to-chatgpt
- Source link: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
"OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT," [1]reports BleepingComputer :
> Up until now, the ChatGPT experience has been completelyfree. While there are premium plans and models, you don't see GPT sell you products or show ads. On the other hand, Google Search has ads that influence your buying behaviour. OpenAI is planning to replicate a similar experience.
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> As spotted [by software engineer Tibor Blaho] [2]on X.com ,ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta includes new references to an "ads feature" with "bazaar content", "search ad" and "search ads carousel."
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> This move could disrupt the web economy,as what most people don't understand is that GPT likely knows more about users than Google. For example, OpenAI could create personalised ads on ChatGPT that promote products that you really want to buy... The leak suggests that ads will initially be limited to the search experience only, but this may change in the future.
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
[2] https://x.com/btibor91/status/1994714152636690834
> Up until now, the ChatGPT experience has been completelyfree. While there are premium plans and models, you don't see GPT sell you products or show ads. On the other hand, Google Search has ads that influence your buying behaviour. OpenAI is planning to replicate a similar experience.
>
> As spotted [by software engineer Tibor Blaho] [2]on X.com ,ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta includes new references to an "ads feature" with "bazaar content", "search ad" and "search ads carousel."
>
> This move could disrupt the web economy,as what most people don't understand is that GPT likely knows more about users than Google. For example, OpenAI could create personalised ads on ChatGPT that promote products that you really want to buy... The leak suggests that ads will initially be limited to the search experience only, but this may change in the future.
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
[2] https://x.com/btibor91/status/1994714152636690834
Can anyone recommend an alternative? (Score:2)
by Anne Thwacks ( 531696 )
Free ChatGPT is rubbish for coding. For every bug it fixes, it creates two new ones - sometimes three.
And no, I don't want ads. I have never, ever, bought anything from an online advert in over 20 years of using the internet (Yes, I started when it was Arpanet).
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by fph il quozientatore ( 971015 )
Are they going to put ads in generated code? Like printf("Buy Coca Cola\n")?
Seem promising... (Score:2)
by fuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 )
If the litigation is anything to go by; their "Suicide Solution" nostalgia callback colab with Sony Music Entertainment should be a hit!
Well duh! (Score:2)
Of course they are, and they were on that trajectory since the very beginning. Did anyone actually believe it was really going to continue to be a nonprofit org?
Re: (Score:2)
From what little we get to see of their books; I full expect them to continue as an aggressively nonprofit org; for a while.
I further expect them to do so in a spirit of arrogant, rapacious, desperation that will just keep getting more intense until that while is up.