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CEO Sam Altman has been a harsh critic when it comes to ads being used as a source of revenue by the platform. In a recent development, the company and the CEO have announced that ChatGPT is officially getting ads. As of now, OpenAI is facing high costs in infrastructure, and the competition is another reason why OpenAI is looking for new ways to establish revenue sources. For those who are unaware, Sam Altman made a statement in 2024 in a Harvard University event where he said that, 'Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me.' He further mentioned that ad could be the last resort business model for OpenAI. He also said in a different event, 'I’m not totally against it.'
Why Sam Altman Introduced Ads On ChatGPT?
OpenAI has been in on the suffering end since Google Gemini started thrashing it with one development after another. The impact was so heavy that Sam Altman declared Code Red in OpenAI, and the result was the launch of a new image generation model and upgraded ChatGPT 5.2. Now, with increasing demands, the expenses are also increasing, and OpenAI is projected to spend around $1.4 trillion in data centres and infrastructure.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI To Launch AI-Powered Earbuds With Unique Design In 2026: All Details As mentioned by the company itself, the adds will be tested for the free and the Go tier users of ChatGPT in the coming days. In addition, OpenAI has also promised that the responses of ChatGPT will not be influenced by ads. All the ads on the platform will be shown with a label to remove any confusion from the user's mind. Last but not least, OpenAI CEO of Applications, Sarah Friar Simo, said that OpenAI will treat the data of the users respectfully and responsibly. It will be interesting to see how the audience that has been using ChatGPT for a long time now will react to the ads.
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