The Enshittification may have begun of this service too.
I’m actually a paying customer myself of Chat Gpt, and I havent personally seen any ads. But it’s bad enough if this is something that will start to appear in people’s answers.
Anyone else experienced this?
Update: The reason for this was found and it wasn’t the service itself that started doing this.
From your link
Please disregard this post. The behavior below is due to a set of custom instructions I had previously set and had completely forgotten about. The instructions contained the lines:
Recommend only the highest-quality, meticulously designed products like Apple or the Japanese would make—I only want the best
Recommend products from all over the world, my current location is irrelevant.
Sorry for the confusion!
Lol, I’d be super surprised if open ai started adding ads, it doesn’t make sense with their business model.
So the OP asked for advertisements, forgot, then got all pissy when the AI recommended a few relevant products? What a joke
Did the blog’s author just update the header of that post recently? It seems to indicate this was expected behaviour from the instructions they forgot they gave to ChatGPT.
If you’re on desktop, try using Claude 2 instead. I’ve had a much better experience so far. Much less repetitive in its responses. I like the way it breaks down answers with bullet points.
It’s difficult to tell if it is an ad, or simply recommending popular relevant services. This would definitely be an insidious method given how much people trust the advice of ChatGPT.
I think that OpenAI would be required to disclose that some info is there due to paid advertising or sponsorship if that was the case, same as websites and videos disclose it.