Yeah, that would be a problem. Luckily, the actual post we're discussing isn't putting any advertising in the model.
This is a very important distinction to make -- complaints should be be about what is happening, and should distinguish that from what is not yet happening and should not. Because beyond the maxim that we should try to deal in facts... if OpenAI thinks people can't tell the difference anyways, they'll be justified in thinking they may as well just do the thing they're already being accused of doing.
> complaints should be be about what is happening
Why would you think that? An ad supported product has misaligned incentives, everyone can see that and that's why the confidence erodes from that moment on.
You're living in the era in which saying "Stallman was right" is a dead cold take. Every big tech company sold out exactly like the hippies told you they would back when Google was a dream place to work for and Meta was still a twinkle in zuk's eyes.
God forbid we anticipate what could possibly go wrong in an attempt to get ahead of the problem.
But I guess waiting for problems to show their ugly heads before acting has never backfired.