OpenAI is planning to introduce ads to ChatGPT for the first time, according to newly discovered code within the AI chatbot’s app.

First spotted by computer engineer Tibor Blaho, the code suggests that OpenAI is testing ads and shopping features within a beta version of the ChatGPT Android app.

“ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta includes new references to an ‘ads feature’ with ‘bazaar content’, ‘search ad’ and ‘search ads carousel’,” Mr Blaho noted in a post to X.

ChatGPT has been completely free of ads since it launched in November 2022, with chief executive Sam Altman once describing them as a “last resort”.

The tech boss appears to have softened his stance in recent months, saying that he was open to the idea of introducing them.

“I’m not totally against it,” he said on his c

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