While OpenAI continues to insist that there are currently no ads ' or tests for advertising ' live in ChatGPT, the company's chief research officer Mark Chen also acknowledged that the company 'fell short' with recent promotional messages and is working to improve the experience. In response, the company said it was only testing ways to show apps built on the ChatGPT app platform that it announced in October, with 'no financial component' to those suggestions. (One of the users who'd complained initially about the ads responded skeptically, writing, 'Bruhhh' Don't insult your paying users.') 'There are no live tests for ads ' any screenshots you've seen are either not real or not ads,' Turley wrote. 'If we do pursue ads, we'll take a thoughtful approach. People trust ChatGPT and anything we do will be designed to respect that.' 'I agree that anything that feels like an ad needs to be handled with care, and we fell short,' he wrote. 'We've turned off this kind of suggestion while we...
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