Fears of declining quality are rippling through the ChatGPT user community as OpenAI confirms plans to introduce advertising alongside the global rollout of its new low-cost subscription, ChatGPT Go. While the company insists ads will not interfere with answers, many users remain sceptical, worried that the platform may be entering a familiar cycle of gradual degradation.
The concern comes at a pivotal moment for ChatGPT. Once positioned as a largely ad-free alternative to traditional search and social platforms, it is now expanding aggressively with multiple paid tiers and, for the first time, advertising baked into lower-cost access.
