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Meanwhile, Anthropic has said that Claude will remain ad free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884883

OpenAI also started as a non profit. I don't trust any of these people and I propose no one should.

Did OpenAI ever say they wouldn’t do ads?

"I will disclose, as a personal bias, that I hate ads."

"They fundamentally misalign a user's incentives with the company providing the service"

"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me, I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model."

- Altman 2024

Soooo... No? Sort of the opposite, they confirmed they would do it. ;p