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               ChatGPT finally joined much of the rest of the internet and started running ads. On Feb. 9, OpenAI
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               and charging $60 per thousand ad views, a rate that puts 
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               In traditional search, users type a query and receive a list of options. The ad sits beside or above organic results, and the user understands they are comparison shopping. The power dynamic is clear. In a chatbot conversation, the dynamic shifts.
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               When a sponsored placement appears at the bottom of that answer, it occupies a different psychological space than a Google Shopping ad ever did. It's the difference between a billboard on the highway and a suggestion from your 
friend.
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               . Its four Super Bowl ads depicted absurd scenarios where a chatbot steered users from genuine questions toward sponsored products.
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               They were also, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, "clearly dishonest." OpenAI's policy
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               But Anthropic is tapping into a real anxiety about a technology people are still figuring out how to trust, and it appears to be resonating. In the days after the Super Bowl, Claude's app climbed from No. 41 to No. 7 on the US App Store,
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               . The "no ads" pitch, it turns out, is itself a potent form of marketing.
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               The real tension isn't whether ads will literally hijack AI responses today. It's whether the incentive structure that advertising creates will subtly reshape what these products become over time. Anthropic's published position is that even well-behaved ads introduce pressure to optimize for engagement, and that engagement metrics don't necessarily align with being genuinely useful.
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               That's a familiar worry from social media's evolution, now arriving in a new context where the conversational format makes the stakes feel more intimate.
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               Perplexity, the AI search startup that was among the first to introduce ads into 
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               same ad-supported playbook
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other companies are considering ads. Training and running these models costs billions. OpenAI spent an estimated $5 billion more than it earned last year. Venture capital has kept the industry afloat so far, but investors want returns, and free tiers don't generate them. Ads are the most proven monetization engine the internet has ever produced. It would be stranger if OpenAI didn't try them.
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               If that holds, companies may not need to buy ads inside the conversation at all. They just need the AI to recommend them. That's a promising signal 
for advertisers still weighing whether ChatGPT's $60 price tag is worth it. But it does nothing to solve OpenAI's problem.
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