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Autotrader ads in ChatGPT just surfaced

This has the potential to be a huge new advertising play, but my opinion is that it's all going to come down to how people react.
If the average ChatGPT users feels that this is OpenAI "selling their information" or "watching their chats", the relevance of ads will fall off a cliff.

If nobody revolts, this could be hyper-targeted AI ad placements at a time of consumer need.. could work.
 
@craigh in my circles ppl have not connected AI to 'getting shit done'.

I had a 40yr old that wanted instructions on how to figure out what was wrong with their home theater (I use to own a HT company). I told her "do you have GPT?" ;-) Of course she did, I walked her thru the steps of talking to it " tell it only what you know, nothing more, and GPT will walk you thru this" She had the app, and the idea never crossed her mind lol!

I'm thinking in the early days of AI will be like in the early Internet days. The AI shopper will be a different breed and we'll need a special pay lan for that traffic (just like the internet did back when)