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BY Thomas Smith
Ads already follow you wherever you go. They’re on your TV, your phone, your train car—even on your airline tray table and escalator.
Now, they’ll soon be in your chatbot, too. OpenAI announced last week that it will begin selling ads in ChatGPT.
The move opens up a potentially massive revenue source for OpenAI—and is a huge threat to Google’s world-dominating ad empire.
Here’s why.
For years, OpenAI has resisted the siren song of advertising and has kept its chatbot largely open to the world. That’s gone well for the company.
Offering a massively valuable product for free has been, unsurprisingly, popular. ChatGPT now has a reported 900 million monthly users.
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