Meanwhile, Anthropic has said that Claude will remain ad free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884883
OpenAI also started as a non profit. I don't trust any of these people and I propose no one should.
Did OpenAI ever say they wouldn’t do ads?
"I will disclose, as a personal bias, that I hate ads."
"They fundamentally misalign a user's incentives with the company providing the service"
"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me, I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model."
- Altman 2024
Soooo... No? Sort of the opposite, they confirmed they would do it. ;p
OpenAI also started as a non profit. I don't trust any of these people and I propose no one should.
Did OpenAI ever say they wouldn’t do ads?
"I will disclose, as a personal bias, that I hate ads."
"They fundamentally misalign a user's incentives with the company providing the service"
"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me, I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model."
- Altman 2024
Soooo... No? Sort of the opposite, they confirmed they would do it. ;p