OPENAI 📢 OpenAI officially bringing ads to ChatGPT Image source: OpenAI The Rundown: OpenAI just announced it will begin testing targeted advertisements in ChatGPT for free and Go tier users in the U.S. — putting into motion a major (and controversial) monetization shift for the AI giant as it eyes a late-2026 IPO. The details: - Ads will appear below responses as "Sponsored Recommendations," targeted based on conversations but excluded from health, politics, and underage users. - The move coincides with the company’s $8/month ChatGPT Go tier launching globally, with ads included to offset the lower price point. - Premium tiers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) remain ad-free, with OAI pledging to never sell user data or let ads influence ChatGPT's answers. - Sam Altman had said in 2024 that ads in ChatGPT would be a “last resort”, but more recently said he “wasn’t totally against it” if it didn’t violate user trust.

Looking forward to trying. Let me know if you used it. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-new-chatgpt-images-model-2025-12

OpenAI has integrated an upgraded AI image generator directly into ChatGPT and text-to-video model, Sora (called “Images in ChatGPT”), effectively replacing its original text-to-image model, DALL-E, which marks the first major update to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in over a year. - ‘Images in ChatGPT’ is powered by OpenAI’s reasoning model, GPT-4o, so it has better world knowledge and contextual understanding, meaning itcan create/modify more accurate and detailed images and photos. - Although it will “think” for longer before creating an image, it will understand contextual prompts and it will also produce coherent and accurate text within images, something AI image generators struggle with. - OpenAI has openly confirmed that to power the new image generator, it trained it on “publicly available data” and proprietary data from its partnerships with companies like Shutterstock. - - Although many AI companies, including OpenAI, usually prefer to keep what data they used to train their AI models close to their chests, OpenAI has chosen to reveal its training data sources because it wants to respect “artists’ rights,” and has confirmed it has “policies in place” that prevent it from generating images that “directly mimic any living artists’ work,”as they continue to battle several ongoing copyright lawsuits.

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Over the last couple of months ChatGPT has become less and less responsive if you do anything very complex with it. It does not follow instructions, tells you it has completed a step when it hasn't done anything, and doesn't deliver the end product when it has finished. And even worse, after you have worked with it several hours to get the work done, it cannot deliver the finished product to you. It tells you "The system is blocking downloads, which means I cannot provide the file directly." It then offers alternative methods of delivery. But then gives you the same error message for each of the alternative methods it offers. I am looking for a good replacement that actually works, the way ChatGPT worked up to a couple of months ago. I don't mind paying for it. I switched to ChatGPT Plus for two months, at $200 per month, thinking that was the problem and ChatGPT would work better at the higher price level. So, I wasted $400 as there was no improvement.