OpenAI Sets Out an Advertising Plan for ChatGPT's Free Tier
OpenAI said it would begin testing ads for free and Go users in the U.S. while excluding Pro, Business and Enterprise plans.
OpenAI announced plans to test advertising in the United States for ChatGPT's free and Go tiers, framing the move as one way to widen access while keeping paid professional plans ad-free. The company said the test would follow its rollout of the lower-cost Go subscription.
The decision put a consumer-internet revenue model alongside subscriptions and API usage in the frontier-model market. OpenAI emphasized that ads should not affect answers, but the product change still raised a durable question for the sector: how assistants preserve trust when a recommendation surface also becomes a commercial surface.
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- Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT — OpenAI — Primary announcement https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
