OpenAI has turned off some promotional app messages in ChatGPT after users complained that the chatbot was showing them ads. In a post on X, OpenAI’s chief research officer, Mark Chen, said that the company is working to improve the experience after showing ChatGPT users in-app messages promoting companies like Peloton and Target, and that “this kind of suggestion” has now been disabled.
“I agree that anything that feels like an ad needs to be handled with care, and we fell short,”…
