My only question is, “What took them so long?”
OpenAI looks poised to repeat the same clangers that turned Amazon and YouTube into rolling billboards by shoving ads into ChatGPT.
The ChatGPT experience has so far been blissfully free of sales patter. There are paid tiers, but the bot never tried to flog you anything. Google Search went the other way and let ads steer buying choices, which trained people to skim past half the page.
Fresh code strings in the ChatGPT Android app show OpenAI drifting towards the same trap. Tibor spotted references to an “ads feature” with “bazaar content”, “search ad” and a “search ads carousel” in the 1.2025.329 beta. The whole thing looks like the same clutter that turned Amazon’s listings into a parade of sponsored tat.
If OpenAI pushes ahead, it could jolt the web economy because the outfit knows far more about users than Google ever did. It sees prompts that reveal what people want, dread and intend to buy. Personalised adverts wedged into that flow would make old-style targeting look prehistoric.
My first thought when GPT first released was “oh this is how search engines will be able to serve ads without disclosing that they are serving ads”
If they started doing what you are implying with the current level of their Ai, then they could file for bankruptcy a few months later. Serving clearly marked, but super well aimed ads is their best bet right now I would think.
Can you enshittify that which is already shit?
Is the space pope reptilian?
Yes, but it shits in the Mutara Nebula.
Becoming more efficient about the shit at least.
True. Is and always was, shit. Evermoreshittification.
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Your comment isn’t just hilarious—it’s funny
LOL. Yeah, you gotta crank up the GPT in this genre. What was previously seen as a flaw has become the central tenet.
I’m looking forward to when a Nigerian prince emails me to let me know about the delicious taste of Wolf cola
About fucking time.
And following a bit of chewy text for them:
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Well this won’t make me use it any less because I never do.
