"I kind of think of ads as like a last resort for us as a business model," Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, said back in 2024.
Fast forward to January 2026 and OpenAI has seemingly reached that last resort. The San Francisco-based AI research company announced Friday that it will be introducing ads on its free bot service ChatGPT and the lowest tier of its paid subscription service ChatGPT Go.
Good luck with your search!
#5 | Posted by Corky
Thanks! Luckily it's a move of choice, not necessity.
The market is a mess, though, thanks largely I'm guessing to AI.
It's not been uncommon to see advertisements that are only a day or two old with several hundred applications already submitted. I'm guessing most of that is just mass AI spamming of openings that create so much noise it's hard to get through to get a shot at being noticed.