OpenAI is hoping to cash in big on ‘useful, entertaining’ product placements. It’s also introducing a new paid plan in the US, ChatGPT Go, which will also have ads.
OpenAI is putting ads into ChatGPT in « the coming weeks », as well as bringing its ChatGPT Go subscription tier to the US starting today.
The free ChatGPT and ChatGPT Go plans will have advertisements, which is the biggest news, given ChatGPT Go has already launched in 171 countries since August. For $8 per month, it offers more access to messaging, image creation, file uploads, and memory. The pricier plans, including ChatGPT Plus ($20) and Business and Enterprise, will not include ads. You also won’t see ads if you’re not logged in, which could be a way to good way to avoid them—for now.
In a mockup, ChatGPT ads appear at the bottom of a chatbot’s response with a « Sponsored » label. They include links to click out to other sites and purchase. This could bring many more images to a standard ChatGPT conversation, which today is mostly text, aside from AI-generated images.
