"Chen and other OpenAI executives were responding to posts from ChatGPT's paying subscribers who complained about seeing promotional messages for companies like Peloton and Target. In response, the company said it was only testing ways to show apps built on the ChatGPT app platform that it announced in October, with "no financial component" to those suggestions. (One of the users who'd complained initially about the ads responded skeptically, writing, "Bruhhh... Don't insult your paying users.")"
"Similarly, ChatGPT head Nick Turley posted Friday that he was "seeing lots of confusion about ads rumors in ChatGPT." "There are no live tests for ads - any screenshots you've seen are either not real or not ads," Turley wrote. "If we do pursue ads, we'll take a thoughtful approach. People trust ChatGPT and anything we do will be designed to respect that.""
OpenAI acknowledged that paying ChatGPT users saw promotional-style suggestions resembling ads and said those suggestions were not part of any financial advertising program. The company paused the suggestion type while improving the model's precision and exploring user controls to dial them down or off. Executives emphasized there are no live tests for ads and that any future advertising would be handled thoughtfully to respect user trust. The incident prompted user complaints and skepticism, particularly from paying Plus subscribers who saw product promotions from companies such as Peloton and Target.
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