- Chatgpt may not be ad-free forever
- Leader of Chatgpt Nick Turley says ads could be implemented in the future in some Openai products
- Chatgpt could remain ad -free but at what costs?
The manager of Chatgpt says Openai could implement ads on his products in the future, but only if they are “thoughtful and tasteful.”
In a speech with The Verge, Nick Turley, the leader of Chatgpt, asked about the possibility of AI Chatbot getting ads in the future. While he was reluctant to answer, he gave an insight into how he looks at the advertising of chatgpt, and could not exclude it completely.
Turley said, “Look when you are really trying to make me comment on ads, I have become humble enough not to come up with crazy, extreme, long -term statements on a question like that, because there may be a particular market where people are not willing to pay us, but still we will offer the best, latest and greatest. Perhaps it would be a place to consider other indirect forms of monetization.”
He added that if the company ever had to implement ads, they would have to do it in a “very, very careful and conscious, because I really think that what makes Chatgpt magic is the fact that you get the best answer to you and there is no other stakeholder in the middle.”
Although it sounds pretty positive for the future of an ad-free chatgpt experience, Turley couldn’t rule it completely, rather than choosing a more diplomatic approach. He said, “I’m humble enough not to exclude it categorically, but we should be very thoughtful and tasteful about it.”
Perhaps more positive is that he seems to believe that if ads were to appear on Openai products, it is likely to be on other offers from the company, not the world’s most popular AI chatbot with over 700 million weekly users.
He said, “We want to build other products and these other products may have different dimensions for them, and maybe Chatgpt just isn’t an ADS-Y product because it’s just so deeply responsible to your goals.”
Chatgpt is ad free but subscriptions are likely to ramp up
While Nick Turley’s comments let me feel hopeful for an ad-free chatgpt experience in the foreseeable future, I feel less positive about an even more strongly layered platform that pays its best features.
Right yesterday, Chatgpt started rolling out Gmail connection, but its best capabilities are paid for behind Chatgpt Pro, a $ 200 / £ 200 -subscription.
As a Chatgpt Plus subscriber who pays $ 20 / £ 20 a month, I have noticed the big difference in capacities between the paid version and the free, and although I understand that Openai needs to make money as a company feels $ 240 / £ 240 a year as a steep question.
I am concerned about the future of AI being paid for behind Premium subscriptions and I think this is the direction we are heading in. Even companies like Google have offered Premium AI subscriptions with the best Pixel smartphones in a year; After the initial period, the same Gemini AI capacities are paid.
If subscriptions and basic free levels are the way AI companies justify ad-free chatbots, then I’m more pro-ads than I ever thought I would be. In fact, give me an announced chatgpt with full access to the same as a Plus account for free; I would take it over handing out a large amount of money every single month.
