# PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/paypal-partners-with-openai-to-let-users-pay-for-their-shopping-within-chatgpt/32406 **Category:** News **Tags:** article **Created:** 2025-10-28T15:57:13Z **Posts:** 19 ## Post 1 by @KevPham — 2025-10-28T15:57:13Z > **[PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT...](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/paypal-partners-with-openai-to-let-users-pay-for-their-shopping-within-chatgpt/)** > > Paypal said on Tuesday that it is adopting a protocol in combination with OpenAI's "Instant Checkout" feature to let users pay for their shopping directly within ChatGPT, starting in 2026. --- ## Post 2 by @anon57862721 — 2025-10-28T16:00:34Z Yikes! What could possibly go wrong. This is the avenue for ads within ChatGPT. Mark my words. More suggestions and recommendations that companies are going to ask OpenAI to add in for the types of products or services a person may be searching for. Authenticity and real organic discovery is going to be dead soon. --- ## Post 3 by @any1 — 2025-10-28T16:15:55Z ![Pulp Fiction Meme GIFs | Tenor](https://forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/c/c3766bcbeeebdb957979bbb1c027320c6459a90e.gif) Who asked for this? OpenAI is trying to get their hands into everything now --- ## Post 4 by @anon57862721 — 2025-10-28T16:18:19Z > [@any1](#): > > Who asked for this? Their fucked up belief that absolutely 100% of everything they do must be capitalized upon without consideration for the user’s needs or wishes for how they may want to use their product. --- ## Post 5 by @any1 — 2025-10-28T16:22:19Z Seems like they are going for a similar approach Elon Musk wanted with his everything app --- ## Post 6 by @anon57862721 — 2025-10-28T16:24:25Z The business model at the heart of all that big tech does is what’s problematic. Of course, this also means the value systems of all those involved at the leadership levels. I no longer see eye to eye on this type of business development and business management in the capitalist society. Business are meant to at-least be a tad bit more than just a business providing products or services for sale with absolutely only one goal in mind. And this is me putting it lightly. --- ## Post 7 by @KevPham — 2025-10-28T17:50:45Z > [@any1](#): > > Who asked for this? OpenAI is trying to get their hands into everything now Reeks of desperation here. All of these AI startups are desperate to find themselves a sustainable business model. At the end of the day, LLMs will not making a profit if they focus too much on finding the “killer app” or online usage cases. They can compliment other services (like adding a more interactive toy that can talk to your child idk) but I genuinely do not see people buying things through ChatGPT specifically. It’s too gimmicky. --- ## Post 8 by @Blackbird — 2025-10-28T18:20:44Z I have a bad feeling they’re going to buy.. --- ## Post 9 by @Man — 2026-01-17T13:13:29Z I accidentally tapped on the donate button when checking out one time and PayPal refused to refund me. They said it wasn’t a purchase made with their payment protection feature. I feel like they stole my money. There is no way I would want this. More predatory pricing and payment schemes. Yay. --- ## Post 10 by @zoooom — 2026-01-17T13:24:46Z This. They are literally trying to create a need for a product no one asked for. --- ## Post 11 by @anon57862721 — 2026-01-17T13:26:59Z The narrative of big tech and companies such as this has always been to do things and market the same so much such that the narrative forms around the need and want for the tools they make even though no one asked for it. In the eyes of big tech, this is innovation and the prospect of new users is how they dupe investors into making them seem legitimate. --- ## Post 12 by @zoooom — 2026-01-17T13:35:36Z Another point is they invested(as money, time and effort) so much that they can’t pull themselves out anymore. That’s why they will do everything they can to succeed. Today we can’t even find fairly priced hardware (ram and gpus) as end users because they are so focused on feeding the AI machine. They seem to be spending all of their resources into one product which leaves everything else pretty empty… --- ## Post 13 by @anon57862721 — 2026-01-17T13:36:46Z All true words. It’s a weird time to be alive. I suppose every generation feels so. --- ## Post 14 by @zoooom — 2026-01-17T13:39:22Z Yes, but the weirdness of our times is quite fast paced:) --- ## Post 15 by @anon57862721 — 2026-01-17T13:40:18Z Welcome to the internet age! It sucks and rocks at the same time. Cognitive dissonance to the max! --- ## Post 16 by @Man — 2026-01-17T13:46:47Z Does OpenAI get a cut of PayPal’s fee or do they collect a referral bonus from the retailer? PayPal charges something like \>5% of the transaction value. This kind of mission creep is insidious. --- ## Post 17 by @anon57862721 — 2026-01-17T13:50:10Z It’s all insidious. All these companies need is more data. That’s all they care about. And we literally pay for it. If this isn’t the biggest scam, I don’t know what is. --- ## Post 18 by @plus-subzero — 2026-01-17T14:07:27Z > [@anon57862721](#): > > Authenticity and real organic discovery is going to be dead soon. That ship has sailed. A solution in search of a problem, with the ultimate result being more ads shoved at you from yet another corner. Thanks --- ## Post 19 by @anon57862721 — 2026-01-17T14:10:47Z Only if your average tech user understood this issue and it’s implications