ChatGPT’s cheapest options now show you ads

ChatGPT users may soon start seeing ads in their chats on behalf of OpenAI Announced on Monday It has officially begun testing ads on its AI platform. They’ll appear as “sponsored” links below ChatGPT answers, but OpenAI says the ads “do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you.”

For now, ads will only appear to users of the free version of ChatGPT or the less expensive $8 per month Go plan. Users on the Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans won’t see any ads, so anyone who wants to avoid them will have to pay at least $20 a month for a Plus subscription. There is one loophole – OpenAI points out that users can “opt out of ads at the free tier in exchange for a smaller number of daily free messages.”

Go users can’t opt ​​out of seeing ads, but users on both Free and Go plans can decline ads, share comments on ads, turn off ad personalization, turn off the option to base ads on past chats, and delete their ad data. According to OpenAI, advertisers will only get data about “aggregated ad views and clicks,” not personal data or content from users’ ChatGPT conversations.

Additionally, not all users and conversations will be eligible for ads, including users under 18 and conversations about certain sensitive topics “such as health, mental health, or politics.” Even adult users on the chatbot’s Free and Go plans may not immediately start seeing ads since the feature is still in testing.