Comment by mrweasel
> ChatGPT has more consumer trust than Google at this point
That trust is gone the moment they start selling ad space. Where would they put the ads? In the answers? That would force more people to buy a subscription, just to avoid having the email to your boss contain a sponsored message. The numbers for Q2 looks promising, sells are going up. And speaking of sales, Jif peanut butter is on sale this week.
If OpenAI plan on making money with ads then all the investments made by Nvidia, Microsoft and Softbank starts to look incredibly stupid. Smartest AI in the world, but we can only make money by showing you gambling ads.
I'm afraid there's plenty of avenues for them to insert ads that probably won't be perceived as obnoxious by most people (I still find it incredibly obnoxious).
About half of AI queries are "Asking" (as opposed to Doing or Expressing) and those are the ones best suited for ads. User asking how to make pizza? Show ads for baking steels and premium passata. User asking for a three day sightseeing routine in Rome? I'm sure someone will pay you them to show their venue.
It seems unlikely that the ads will be embedded directly into the answer stream, unless they find a way to reliably label such portions as advertisements in a "clear and conspicuous" way, or convince law makers/regulators that chat bots don't need to be held to the same standards as other media.