ChatGPT suddenly displays ads, sparking public outrage; OpenAI urgently removes the feature and admits fault

[Crypto World] Recently, ChatGPT users collectively exploded—promotional content suddenly popped up in the chat interface? OpenAI’s head of research, Mark Chen, quickly came out to put out the fire, directly admitting, “We messed up,” and promptly took down the feature, also upgrading the model’s accuracy in the process.

The official explanation said this was purely a test to see how the platform could be used, with no intention of making advertising revenue, and it definitely wasn’t a real-time ad delivery system. However, users clearly weren’t buying it—why didn’t you give a heads-up before testing?

ChatGPT’s head of business, Nick Turley, also stated: If they ever really plan to do ads in the future, they’ll think it over very carefully, since user trust is something that, once lost, is hard to regain. Looks like this misstep has taught them a lesson.