OpenAI has announced the start of testing advertising in ChatGPT, which will be available to users of the free version and those who have subscribed to the Go plan. Users of paid plans, such as Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise, will not see advertisements, as reported by Kazinform, citing information from OpenAI.
According to the company's statement, the introduction of advertising will be a monetization method that will allow for the reduction of certain limitations for users who do not wish to pay for a subscription. In addition to this, the ChatGPT Go plan is now available in the countries where the service is offered, and for $8 per month, users will be able to enjoy increased limits on messages, image creation, file handling, and chatbot memory.
Testing will begin in the United States and will gradually expand to other countries. Advertisements will only be seen by authorized adult users. They will be placed at the bottom of ChatGPT's responses and will correspond to the topic of the query, visually standing out from the main text.
OpenAI assures that the advertising will not affect the quality of the responses provided by the neural network. Conversations will remain confidential, and advertisers will not have access to them. Users will be able to customize personalization settings, hide individual ads, or completely disable advertising by switching to a paid plan.
During the testing phase, advertisements will not be shown to minors and will also be excluded from the context of sensitive topics such as health, mental state, and politics.
