Ahead of its plans to go public, OpenAI is internally debating whether it should show ads on ChatGPT.
“Some users already assume ChatGPT’s answers are ranked based on sponsorship and that the company sells ads, according to OpenAI focus groups. Some staff have used these findings to advocate for adding advertising,” The Information reported last week.
The Information reports that 630 former Meta employees are now at OpenAI, which accounts for approximately 20% of the startup’s workforce.
OpenAI is slowly heading towards “Meta-fication," where ads could be the primary source of revenue.
OpenAI originally started with AGI goals, i.e developing AI for human benefits, but it’s slowly pivoting to a consumer product company.
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I’ve been thinking. While these AI companies are developing tools already enshittified (for which I think they will never turn a profit), does using a front end for these AI models mitigate or even bypass such bullshit when using them?
For example, if I only use NanoGPT to access the models that may have ads (if used directly from the AI company’s account/portal), would we still get those ads on NanoGPT? I’d like to think so but I’m not sure how the APIs would work.