this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Not only ads on free either, ads on their new lowest paid tier chatgpt go.
It was always the first resort. It just needed to reach a certain amount of users to convince advertisers to advertise. Welcome to the first milestone of doom. It only gets worse from here.
Bitch please. This is like the 847th milestone of doom.
So... We're nearing the end, then?
Unless ads give enough revenue.
To go full circle he needs to hijack a few elections and make a half assed attempt to force people in to a "metaverse"
Who... even is Sam Altman?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XyI38Vp1PGw
Oh, he's basically a less lucky and somehow less competent version of Mark Zuckerberg.
He doesn't know anything like, theoretical or technical about AI, he has no expertise, he's just a guy with a failed startup or two under his belt, who then become the hypeman for investing schemes/incubators.
He, like many in the tech industry, just... acts like he knows what he is talking about, and... for quite a long time, people believed it.
He's basically a complete fraud, just, as a person, beyond all the literal financial fraud he's orchestrated.
Hyping and pumping companies and stocks is the attribute our economy prizes above all else.
Look at musk, what a genius the investors gush. It does not matter if it is dishonest, if the intrinsic value is way below what is thought. They only care what people think, not what is.
The essence of hollow idealism. False promises from malicious prophets in search of profits. "A shrewd businessman" we're expected to call them, but the veneer wears thin.
less lucky
According to that video he made over a billion dollars from a $15,000 investment that only was available to him because some guy liked him
... you got me there, I could have phrased that better.
I've noticed this on Gemini too. I didn't want to search through the annoying internet recipe experience these days so I tried Gemini. "Find me an ice cream recipe"
"Sure! Recipe is blah blah..... Also, OXO makes a great container for your ice cream! And there is a great Ice cream scoop also made by OXO!"
Gemini is made by Google/Alphabet, one of the largest advertising company so it's not surprising.
I'm gonna have a good laugh when emails start arriving in my inbox from colleagues and externals with weird ads in the body of the text. Because considering the amount of people that just paste the bot replies in their emails, this will happen, frequently.
There's a lot of software tools that pipe in a users prompt and execute steps blindly now. THey don't even need to copy/paste anymore.
We're gonna get a lot more unrelated ads in mail or linkedin solicitations.
A few people I work with have put "thank you for you attention to this matter" at the end of some emails. Not sure if they're trump fans or using ai. I assumed the latter as English is not their first language.
Sam Altman answering the question "Can shit be enshittified?"
I read that as chatgpt is getting aids. Sounds about right, not a bad analogy.
Jesus, dude... Their fucking business model is theft and they still can't make a profit...
Lemme go buy some shares right now! 🙄
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Not to much longer then.
If they’re already in the Degradation stage of the Enshitification process they’re fucked.
Yep.
It would be like if Uber started ripping people off before they even broke the cab union contracts with cities.
They don't have a product people even want yet.
A TON of people love ChatGPT. I'm with you, but it's foolish to not acknowledge the reality that it's popular.
Just cause tonnes of folks love ChatGPT doesn't mean that it's viable though, plenty of people love products that were produced by now debunked corporations or developers, just look at Troika games Arcanum and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines are loved by their communities but the studio has been bunk for about 20 years now. If they can't break even as a minimum they will eventually collapse and be sold for parts.
Billions of flies love shit 🤷♂️
The German saying which is attributed to religion is
1000 Fliegen fressen Scheiße. 1000 Fliegen können sich nicht irren.
Now that said it doesn't change the reality of the situation. The equally important saying is "When in Rome..."
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Well he wasn't lying.
Ads always come at the end, at the last part of enshittification, so yeah, last resort indeed
Eh, fuck chatgpt, fuck Sam Altman in specific, with an umbrella
you mean his first and only resort. consider you are one of peter thiels protege as well.
Altman is in the thiel, yarvin set as well?
Small world these ivy league pricks live in.
Hmm... Almost as if there's a small number of very wealthy people, that all know each other, conspiring against the rest of the world
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Who the fuck still uses ChatGPT when there are so many open source alternatives that are much cheaper and sometimes even better overall?
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Because LLMs don't make money. They are prohibitively expensive to run at scale due to the compute and energy requirements, and model fine-tuning adds yet more cost. RAG systems are even more prohibitive and complex.
The only reason they have been developed to such extent is investor money rolling around in a giant loop. Once this stops, every company hosting LLMs has to raise prices to try and make the unprofitable profitable -- but the compute and energy costs don't change in a significant way (unless it's up).
Ads here are likely an attempt to recoup what is dwindling investor capital. I seriously doubt any of these giant models can be brought to actual profitability.
Eventually, the bottom just falls out.
This was inevitable. Anyone who has a basic understanding of how GenAI works knows the only thing they're actually marketable for use for is advertising. Nobody wants to read (or write) an LLM generated book or make a movie with a script written by ChatGPT.
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Finally the AI innovation we were promised.
Enshitification speed run.
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ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam (please don't let the AI bubble burst) Altman once called them a 'last resort.'
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