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What makes a great ChatGPT app | OpenAI Developers
How to build capabilities that make conversations better.

Do Self-Promotional “Best” Lists Boost ChatGPT Visibility? Study of 26,283 Source URLs
Just last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that more than 800 million people use the platform each week. But what does it take to get mentioned and

OpenAI For Countries Will Give ChatGPT A Huge Advantage, But That's Not Good News - BGR
OpenAI announced a new OpenAI for Countries initiative that might help ChatGPT become an even bigger AI force than it already is.

OpenAI may soon let you 'sign in with ChatGPT' for other apps | TechCrunch
OpenAI may soon let users sign in to third party services with their ChatGPT accounts, and is currently trying to gauge developer interest.

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.

OpenAI launches a sub-$5 ChatGPT plan in India | TechCrunch
This plan will offer 10x more messages and image generation than the free tier, among other benefits.

Ads in ChatGPT | OpenAI Help Center
Explore general FAQs about ads in ChatGPT, including eligibility, personalization, privacy, and controls.

Ads in ChatGPT | OpenAI Help Center
Explore general FAQs about ads in ChatGPT, including eligibility, personalization, privacy, and controls.


Platform Obscurantism
ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and enterprises. When OpenAI positions ChatGPT primarily as a conversational interface, it obscures this platform identity, one that extracts value not only from user data and app store partnerships, but ...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads business hits $1 billion run rate as Europe gets self-serve access
That figure comes from multiplying current monthly ad revenue by 12, so it's a snapshot of where things stand today.

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

ChatGPT ads are becoming a real business - Sensemaker
OpenAI says its ad business reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days. The bigger shift is what conversation context is becoming.
Age prediction in ChatGPT | OpenAI Help Center
Learn how ChatGPT uses age prediction and age verification to support age-appropriate experiences for teens.

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

This is, at it's core why I hate what openai launched with ChatGPT. It's also why I think social agents are interesting and why Claude Code, as a power tool enabled interesting conversations with my collaborators.
tweety fish
there is a strong intellectual tradition in cognitive science (that goes well beyond Chalmers) around thinking of many of the tools we create (rulers, books, maps, whathaveyou) and a lot of our social interactions as necessarily integrated parts of our cognition and integral parts of our humanity