This was either from April or early December. In either case, I’ve never heard this repeated anywhere else since.

Edit:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt-sponsored-ads

I do not believe their models are good enough to accurately and organically “prefer” one result over another. Not to say they won’t try, just that it sounds futile. How do you even train a model to pick advertisers over non-advertisers? Feels like they’re just going to start shipping prepackaged “assistants” with a big, stupid list of company sugar daddies to fluff up.