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Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs

67•shantnutiwari•1h ago
I was on the £6.99/month program-- mainly because I didnt use it much. Last few days I've started seeing ads:

1. Ad for Financial Times 2. Add for Shein 3. Add for Amazon prime day

All 3 were on a chat where I was asking about tips on a mobile game.

Needless to say, I cancelled my plan. Im not paying money to see ads

Comments

bflesch•53m ago
How relevant were the ads? Were they integrated into the chat or shown as a box next to the conversation? How did they manage to add the topics to a conversation about mobile games?
SOTGO•51m ago
I see "This plan may include ads" under the $8 Go tier (accessed https://chatgpt.com/pricing/ from the US) going back to January. Is the behavior change recent?
paxys•44m ago
Their entire ads rollout is recent.
blourvim•49m ago
Mildly disappointed that it is not the dystopian adpocalypse we were warned against
thrance•41m ago
Patience, Google wasn't enshittified in a day, after all!
blourvim•32m ago
Ah, wise words. There is still time indeed
khurs•46m ago
Open AI attended the annual Cannes Ad Festival this year, alongside the usual Google, Meta etc

They have 900m users and 50m of them are paying.

Ads are inevitable. Surprised they put them on a paid plan user like you, but they are IPO'ing this year and need to show the best numbers possible.

hightrix•26m ago
Ads are inevitable.

Enshittification is inevitable.

Interesting how those two sentences are directly aligned. I hate ad culture.

cess11•18m ago
"Ads are inevitable."

Not at all. They could even be prohibited by law, as evidenced by prohibitions of some ads being common in most jurisdictions and the Clean City Law of São Paulo.

One of the grand old men of modern advertising said that "man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard", and suggested that he would eventually turn to covert militant direct action against it. I suspect that he would have extended this to screen ads if he had lived long enough to experience them.

paganartifact•14m ago
Is hanging flyers allowed in your dystopia
stranded22•45m ago
They have been putting ads in the free and ‘go’ plans
paxys•44m ago
Yes their $8 (or equivalent) tier does have ads. It says so on https://chatgpt.com/pricing.
elashri•37m ago
Are the ads static or appear in a way that would make them recognized easily so that a uBlock Origin rules remove them?
throwatdem12311•15m ago
Ublock Origin blocks them, at least on Firefox. I haven’t tested UBo Lite on Chromium browsers.
pulvinar•34m ago
"Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans" and "we will not show ads in accounts where the user tells us or we predict that they are under 18"

Could be that based on your prompts it had just decided you were an adult, and started throwing ads at you.

gravel7623•29m ago
Didn't Anthropic create a series of commercials poking fun at OpenAI for putting ads in their chat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7DdTTVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTT55qFdyss
eth0up•10m ago
That was a pretty damn good ad. It manages to say a few things difficult to verbalize, and foists the absurdity of it right in the face. Nearly cathartic to watch, at least for a GPT h8r - (who, me?). The em dash after "perfect" noted in the comments... ;)
mysterydip•28m ago
will there be a point where code generators start putting ads into their produced results, like “this pdf was made with the free version of pdfsoftware” watermarks unless you pay extra?
christkv•27m ago
The most generic ad inventory. Personalized or content relevant ads is still fantasy I see
kylemaxwell•27m ago
You were on a plan that explicitly includes ads; if you don't want to see them (I don't either), then you can either upgrade to the no-ad tier or, as you did, cancel. Neither choice is wrong, but OpenAI definitely has been open about that lowest-tier paid plan having ads.
21asdffdsa12•22m ago
Or you go golden platinum extra special customer - to become even more addless for now.

I find it hilarious that they insert the adds that manual though. It would be so easy, to generate subconcious addds with an LLM. Like weave a slogan reminder into the conversation...

jstummbillig•17m ago
When ethics become hilarious.
aesthesia•10m ago
I'm not sure it would be so easy to do it in a consistent, verifiable way. You can certainly prompt the LLM to work the ad into the conversation, but making sure it actually happens and is done in a way that the advertiser is going to be happy with is a lot harder.
21asdffdsa12•3m ago
Me, im not myself when hungry, but you do you ..
throwatdem12311•17m ago
This has been known to be rolling out for a long time.

Netflix and Disney opened this box long ago when they introduced their “cheap with ads” plan and it’s their most popular subscription types.

The invisible hand of the market has spoken and people prefer advertisements over paying more.

Sad reality but unless we change the incentives this is going to happen with everything.

zb3•4m ago
> Ad for Financial Times

Pay to see ads of products where you also pay to see ads :)

daft_pink•4m ago
I'm really curious if there are privacy implications to the ads since Google ads showed the complete search that you made to the advertiser. I'm curious how their ads console works

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