ChatGPT Now Has Ads — Your Conversations Are OpenAI's New Ad Inventory

OpenAI is testing personalized ads in ChatGPT for Free/Go users, using chat history. This move is ironic given Anthropic's Super Bowl ad mocking AI chatbot ads, which Sam Altman called 'elitist.' The "enshittification playbook" is now impacting private AI conversations.

Claude is a Space to Think

Anthropic's official announcement: Claude will never have ads. Ads would turn AI from 'serving users' into 'serving advertisers.' Claude should be like a notebook or whiteboard — a pure space to think.