Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs

bflesch

How relevant were the ads? Were they integrated into the chat or shown as a box next to the conversation? How did they manage to add the topics to a conversation about mobile games?

SOTGO

I see "This plan may include ads" under the $8 Go tier (accessed https://chatgpt.com/pricing/ from the US) going back to January. Is the behavior change recent?

blourvim

Mildly disappointed that it is not the dystopian adpocalypse we were warned against

khurs

Open AI attended the annual Cannes Ad Festival this year, alongside the usual Google, Meta etc They have 900m users and 50m of them are paying. Ads are inevitable. Surprised they put them on a paid plan user like you, but they are IPO'ing this year and need to show the best numbers possible.

stranded22

They have been putting ads in the free and ‘go’ plans

paxys

Yes their $8 (or equivalent) tier does have ads. It says so on https://chatgpt.com/pricing .

elashri

Are the ads static or appear in a way that would make them recognized easily so that a uBlock Origin rules remove them?

pulvinar

"Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans" and "we will not show ads in accounts where the user tells us or we predict that they are under 18" Could be that based on your prompts it had just decided you were an adult, and started throwing ads at you.

gravel7623

Didn't Anthropic create a series of commercials poking fun at OpenAI for putting ads in their chat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7DdTTVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTT55qFdyss

mysterydip

will there be a point where code generators start putting ads into their produced results, like “this pdf was made with the free version of pdfsoftware” watermarks unless you pay extra?

christkv

The most generic ad inventory. Personalized or content relevant ads is still fantasy I see

kylemaxwell

You were on a plan that explicitly includes ads; if you don't want to see them (I don't either), then you can either upgrade to the no-ad tier or, as you did, cancel. Neither choice is wrong, but OpenAI definitely has been open about that lowest-tier paid plan having ads.

throwatdem12311

This has been known to be rolling out for a long time. Netflix and Disney opened this box long ago when they introduced their “cheap with ads” plan and it’s their most popular subscription types. The invisible hand of the market has spoken and people prefer advertisements over paying more. Sad reality but unless we change the incentives this is going to happen with everything.

zb3

> Ad for Financial Times Pay to see ads of products where you also pay to see ads :)

daft_pink

I'm really curious if there are privacy implications to the ads since Google ads showed the complete search that you made to the advertiser. I'm curious how their ads console works

okzgn

That's a way to reduce lost income from former clients.

6stringmerc

What are these “adds” you are seeing? Are they “ads” as in the contraction slang form of “advertisements” akin to the British “adverts” or are you making a meta commentary on the “addition” of content to you Clanker experience? I’m not genuinely confused tbh. I’m more nothing this as a case study of the “LLM user profile” anecdata I’m collecting. Some may call it lowbrow to harp on failing basic literacy yet being compelled to pay real money for a chatbox to help with mental efforts, but here we are.

b3ing

I knew this would happen, the future of AI, is ads, lots of them. This isn’t the end, there will be more added on soon

frankzero

Ads on setting paid plans of OpenAI says more about the state of the company itself rather then the ads they put. There is an interview where Sam Altman said OpenAI won't be putting Ads on any of their plans including the free plan unless as a last result. This basically means they will only put ads if they keep losing money from running their large data centers and AI isn't profitable. So ads on the Free plan generally mean we need money while ads on paid plans means are at the worst of the worst and we desperately need funding. Because when you think about it, OpenAI would never put ads even on a Free plan because it will only drive its users to its competitors like Gemini, Claude and so on. Either way this is just my take on the situation.

grigio

Ensh1ttification to pay the bills, classic