[Comment] Targeted advertising in generative artificial intelligence chatbots: a new public health risk
OpenAI has announced plans to introduce advertising within free and low-cost versions of ChatGPT, alongside voluntary safeguards including separation of advertisements from responses, privacy protections, exclusion of users younger than 18 years, and limits on advertising around sensitive topics such as health.1,2 This shift was predictable, given the substantial losses associated with capital-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) models and the proven profitability of targeted advertising on d