alt Hacker NewsThe issue in the article was paying customers complaining about ads. The ads OpenAI wants to roll out would likely be for free users, since the costs of training and running these LLM systems is very expensive.
From the tweet in your linked post:
> This could help OpenAI give free users more generous usage and features, while users on paid plans stay ad free, which fits with the high costs of running ChatGPT and the revenue they expect from shopping and ad related features
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> The issue in the article was paying customers complaining about ads.
They will just introduce cheaper, ad supported tier, price hike it to the previous price of ad-free tier and slow-boil the user base
> The ads OpenAI wants to roll out would like be for free users
At first. The scream going through the hallways at HQ must be along the lines of: "Nonononono! Not yet!"
You'd have to be pretty dumb to believe ads are only for the free tier. Look at literally every subscription streaming service. They all have ads on paid tiers now.
They will put ads in the paid ChatGPT tiers. That is an absolute certainty. The only question is how long will they tolerate un-advertised eyballs on paid plans.