Software companies are already swarming ChatGPTs ad economy
News Source : Business Insider
News Summary
- OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot is beginning to serve up ads.
- It's a potentially huge revenue driver, and it raises questions about privacy, personalization, and bias in its chatbot.
- Only a tiny fraction of the chatbots' responses include ads, but trends have already emerged: tons of software and travel ads, and few for health.
- An OpenAI spokesperson told Business Insider that while it's still early days for the ads effort, the team has been encouraged by signs that ads can be useful yet non-intrusive.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.Bloomberg/Getty Images OpenAIs rollout of ads onto ChatGPT has high stakes, given its hundreds of millions of users.
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