Teknium flags ChatGPT repeatedly recommending unknown third-party service, suspects ads
Teknium · x · 2026-10-07
Teknium questioned why ChatGPT keeps recommending a random third-party service he'd never heard of, suspecting it's paid advertising rather than an OpenAI product. doodlestein guessed it comes from ads, and Teknium noted ChatGPT doesn't label what's an ad. The exchange raises transparency concerns about ad monetization in ChatGPT.
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