In case anyone at Advertising Week New York had lost track of why ChatGPt carries ads, OpenAI’s Samantha Jacobson offered a reminder that the company pursued it “so that all of humanity could benefit from AGI”. Jacobson, OpenAI’s vp of monetization partnerships, made the claim during a panel question about privacy and consumer trust, and her version of the ad-funded bargain sounds a lot like the ones that came before it. Ads cover the people who won’t pay for ChatGPT, since “not everyone’s going to be able to,” she said. She then drew comparisons to Paramount’s subscription tiers, priced by how many ads a viewer will sit through, with owner…
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