ChatGPT users who pay for premium tiers recently found themselves doing a double take when the chatbot began surfacing “app suggestions” mid conversation that looked a lot like ads.  Screenshots shared by Plus, Pro, and Enterprise subscribers showed promotional style messages pointing to recognizable brands like Peloton and Target, prompting a blunt question: why does a paid AI service appear to be selling something while you are trying to work?. As complaints spread, OpenAI

OpenAI’s viral chatbot is approaching a major shift, as new leaks strongly suggest that ChatGPT will soon include advertising across its platform.  The discovery arrives just after ChatGPT’s third anniversary, a milestone that highlights the chatbot’s extraordinary rise since late 2022, when it went mainstream and rapidly accumulated hundreds of millions of users (Yahoo). With an estimated 800 million people using ChatGPT today, most of them on the free tier, the introductio