Is OpenAI right to start showing ads inside ChatGPT?
OpenAI began testing visual ads inside ChatGPT's image generation in early October 2026, as the chatbot reached roughly 1.2 billion weekly users.
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If adding ads drives people away from ChatGPT, I'm all for it!
If it allows OpenAI to provide better service to more people for longer, sure. People won't like it, but it's the same tradeoff we've been living with forever with Google and ad-supported TV. Hopefully the ads will be more relevant. An irrelevant ad is bad for the user, the advertiser, and the platform. A relevant ad, on the other hand, can actually be helpful.