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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

159 points · 181 comments · vertigoruntime

  1. Imnimo · · focus · HN ↗
    >Ads in ChatGPT help people find what they’re looking for or discover something they hadn’t considered.

    Here I foolishly thought that that was the job of ChatGPT itself.

    1. hightrix · · focus · HN ↗
      This is the lie advertisers tell themselves to be able to sleep at night.

      Ads are cancer on content. No one wants them. They only serve to make the presentation of useful content worse.

      1. subarctic · · focus · HN ↗
        Ads are useful, they help you reach customers
        1. autoexec · · focus · HN ↗
          "Ads are useful, they help you lie to and manipulate customers"

          Information is useful, but that's not what ads are for. No one is interested in giving consumers honest and accurate information about their products without lies and attempts at manipulation. Forcing an unsolicited ad on someone is itself an act of manipulation.

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