OpenAI Discovers That Chatbots Need Monetisation

OpenAI has finally abandoned the polite fiction of pure research to embrace the oldest business model on the internet: targeted advertising. With new Sponsored Agents and native integrations for HubSpot and Shopify, the company is turning generative chat into prime digital real estate.

• AI powered advertising is officially here, proving that even trillion-dollar technological revolutions eventually need to sell t-shirts and CRM software.
• E-commerce integrations mean your next existential AI debate will likely conclude with a targeted pitch for Shopify merch.
• Marketers finally get the holy grail: a captive audience trapped inside an endless chatbot monologue waiting for permission to buy.

Why should I care? Ehhh
Go ahead and test the ad tools before the novelty wears off and the chat interface becomes an unrecognisable billboard.

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