Brace yourselves, for your cozy little conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT are about to be stuffed with ads.

At least, that’s the findings of a software engineer who dug through the code of an experimental build of the chatbot’s app.

The engineer, Tibor Blaho, flagged roughly a dozen lines of code in the latest beta release of the ChatGPT app for Android, 1.2025.329, labelled “feature ads,” with strings referencing commercial-sounding stuff like “search ad,” “search ads carousel,” and “bazaar content.”

It’s yet another sign that OpenAI is preparing to cash in on its hundreds of millions of users by showing them ads, amid growing pressure on the company to demonstrate it can make a profit while its spending — and AI capital expenditures at large — continue to balloon past what subscripti

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