{"id":979004,"date":"2025-12-08T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979004"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:18:32","slug":"were-you-already-seeing-ads-in-chatgpt-openai-pulls-down-a-key-feature-after-backlash-from-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/08\/were-you-already-seeing-ads-in-chatgpt-openai-pulls-down-a-key-feature-after-backlash-from-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Were you already seeing ads in ChatGPT? OpenAI pulls down a key feature after backlash from users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI confirmed earlier in the day that it had not begun showing ads on ChatGPT, while also clarifying that there were no active tests running on the chatbot related to a new experience. However, with several users on social media complaining that they were seeing inadvertent suggestions about various apps and websites, confusion persisted about OpenAI\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Later, OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen confirmed that ChatGPT was indeed showing app suggestions to users and said that the company \u201cfell short\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI confirmed earlier in the day that it had not begun showing ads on ChatGPT, while also clarifying that there were no active tests running on the chatbot related to a new experience. However, with several users on social media complaining that they were seeing inadvertent suggestions about various apps and websites, confusion persisted about OpenAI\u2019s claims. Later, OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen confirmed that ChatGPT was indeed showing app suggestions to users and said that the company \u201cfell short\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}