OpenAI to Begin Testing Visual Ads Inside ChatGPT Image Generation This Month
OpenAI will reportedly show ads while ChatGPT generates images, starting in the U.S. later this month — the company's most direct move yet to turn its chat interface into ad inventory.
ChatGPT will soon show ads while it makes images. According to @FadyEid, OpenAI "starts testing visual ads inside ChatGPT image generation later this month, in the United States only." The placement is telling: image generation involves a built-in wait, a few seconds where the user is staring at a loading state with nothing to do. That idle moment is exactly the kind of attention real estate advertisers have monetized on every other platform for two decades. OpenAI is simply applying the oldest trick in the consumer-internet playbook to the newest consumer product.
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