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If ads are clearly labeled as "ad" or "sponsored", and they only appear for free users, I think seeing ads is a pretty reasonable price to pay for those who wan
by carcabob 9mo ago
If ads are clearly labeled as "ad" or "sponsored", and they only appear for free users, I think seeing ads is a pretty reasonable price to pay for those who want to use the service for free.
If they're not labeled, or are shown even to paying users, I think that's a problem.
- whiplash451 9mo agoThe article says they will be clearly labeled and only for free accounts
- ehhthing 9mo agoThey will also appear to users paying $8/month, not just free.
- dangus 9mo agoSounds like the “pay enough to get better models but not remove ads” tier, kind of like the basic Netflix plan.
- hedora 9mo agoAnd if you ask chatgpt about major sponsors, a few years from now, it’ll honestly answer, even if that means badmouthing them, etc. Also, everyone gets a free pony.
- Rebelgecko 9mo agoSometimes it's a fallacy, but sometimes the slope really is slippery (see: cable TV, Netflix, etc)
- gpt5 9mo agoAll ads start as clearly labeled and distinctive. Then via the magic of iteration and A/B testing they magically evolve to become visually indistinguishable from the rest of the content except for what’s required by law.
- amelius 9mo agoAnd of course they will start collecting more information about users, and build an entire intelligent data extraction system around it.
- MattDamonSpace 9mo agoYou don’t say https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/16/iphone-apple-app-store-search-results-ads-new-design/ https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/16/iphone-apple-app-store-search...
- musicale 9mo agoThe iron law of encrapification: if a company can make more money by downgrading the user experience, it will. I imagine within Apple there were still people who advocated for a better, more transparent user experience, but ultimately they seem to have lost out to services people who just want to grab more money. It's unfortunate because user experience was a core differentiating advantage for Apple that got them to where they are now.
- MarsIronPI 9mo agoIMO that's unavoidable when you're a public company beholden to shareholders who only care about short term stock prices. OK, maybe not all shareholders are playing the short game, but I feel like a lot of them are.
- musicale 9mo agoI miss Tim Apple saying that there were things (accessibility) that Apple did that weren't based on ROI, and people who disagreed should get out of the stock.
- MarsIronPI 9mo ago> I miss Tim Apple saying that there were things (accessibility) that Apple did that weren't based on ROI, and people who disagreed should get out of the stock. That sounds like a great way to get booted out of the CEO position.
- jmugan 9mo agoI agree but I fear it won't stay that way. They boil us frogs slowly.
- vb-8448 9mo agoMaybe at the beginning ... but with time? who knows ... Btw, the end game is probably having ads in the llm context .... or directly in the llm training set.
- plagiarist 9mo agoAds will lower the quality of the training data, an RAG is more likely. Pay to get your product's INSTALLME.md ranked under some specific semantic vectors.
- 46493168 9mo ago>only appear for free users Why would advertisers prefer people without money to people with money?
- seattle_spring 9mo agoPlenty of free users have lots of money. Not wanting to pay for something != not being able to pay for something.
- smogcutter 9mo agoBut being willing to pay for something is a pretty good indicator for being willing to pay for other things too.
- tartoran 9mo agoAdvertisers are salivating at paying users but paying users really don't want any advertising in their product because they're paying not to have any advertising. That does not mean somebody will not cave in and shove advertising in regardless.
- RobertRies 9mo agoThe question is flawed. People who do not pay for ChatGPT often have money and prefer not to pay for for a subscription for several reasons including, but not exclusively: 1) They don't use ChatGPT often enough to justify it 2) They use alternatives primarily (a subset of #1) 3) They choose to spend their money on other things
- mmanfrin 9mo agoEvery other iteration of a service that introduces a free ad-paid tier then ratchets it to bifurcation of premium in to 'premium' and 'premium with no ads' and then on and on.
- Hoasi 9mo agoMy bet is that there will be ads for both groups. The paid group is arguably more valuable from an advertiser’s standpoint, and you can target heavy users with more granularity.
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- Havoc 9mo agoJust like Google at the beginning
- Insanity 9mo agoThey already confirmed it’ll also appear in the (lowest) paid tier.
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