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by techdragon 1040 days ago
I cannot fathom a single faster way to annihilate all the brand goodwill they have earned than to begin inserting advertisements into ChatGPT output… short of ChatGPT spewing Nazi slogans in German like a pop up advertisement of WW2 era black and white Hitler rally… that’s about the level of “how fast this will destroy your customers good will”… people using ChatGPT on GPT4 are paying customers… if you inject advertising into paying customers who are already rate limited and unable to use VPNs and unable to fully use the model due to risk of getting banned if they red team and try pushing boundaries, and have a CEO who is rapidly trying to get a seat on the US Olympic bullshit artist team…

OpenAI are either blind, hypnotised by their own hype, utterly mismanaged, or fucking stupid… and I’d feel pretty safe putting my money on mismanaged base of the current nonsense coming from Sam Altman…

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> OpenAI are either blind, hypnotised by their own hype, utterly mismanaged, or fucking stupid

None of these are mutually exclusive.

These are good reasons to be skeptical that OpenAI is deliberately inserting advertisements and not, say, responding accordingly to the custom instructions that weren't shared here.
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you dont pay 20 usd/month for google
I think you overestimate how much Nazis are hated compared to ads.