Silicon Valley didn’t invent it, but it wears the tactic as if it did. Offer something for free (or very cheap), and then once people are hooked, kick the price up or start stackin’ up the advertisements.

Speaking with The Verge’s Alex Heath in a well-crafted interview (seriously, go check it out) with OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, we got a peek into a not-yet-set-in-concrete, possible future timeline in which ads could come to ChatGPT.

one possible future for ChatGpt

Like any good journalist, Heath digs in and ekes out a statement from a reluctant Turley on whether OpenAI could ever see a future in which a version of ChatGPT (the free version, I’d wager) shows advertisements to its users.

Here’s a snippet of the interview:

Turley: “So I actually don’t view the fact that the

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