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Ads might be coming to ChatGPT — despite Sama not being a fan
OpenAI is toying with a move into ads, per the Financial Times. CFO Sarah Friar told the newspaper it's weighing up an ads business model but plans to be
Though, in a follow-on statement, she stressed it has “no active plans to pursue advertising.” But it seems clear the idea is on the table. (The FT’s reporting highlighted a recent high profile ad hire: Shivakumar Venkataraman, ex of Google.) In a recent fireside chat at Harvard Business School he was asked if it might adopt ads to broaden access options, and told delegates that would be a “last resort… I’m not saying OpenAI would never consider ads, but I don’t like them in general, and I think that ads-plus-AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me.”
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