Policy & Ethicsgenerative aiconversational aiopenaiprivacy
AI Companies Monetize User Attention Through Advertising
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A security expert and data scientist warns that the AI industry is adopting social-media-style advertising, citing OpenAI's late-2024 ChatGPT Search and October 2025 ChatGPT Atlas launches, plus Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Perplexity adding ads. The piece argues ad-driven conversational AI risks manipulating users, lowering information quality, and urges government action, public AI investment, and enforceable consumer data rights to preserve trust.
Scoring Rationale
Highlights industry-wide ad shift with policy recommendations; slightly limited by opinion format and single-source analysis.
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