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ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.' (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

A freemium internet site with ads, you say? Who could have predicted this happening?

It's crazy anyone took Altman seriously when he suggested the site wouldn't have ads. Hell, it's crazy to think anyone believed the prior iterations of the tools weren't crawling with ads and other sponsored content it had ingested during the course of sucking off the internet on the first pass.