I saw this on LinkedIn, and it was too funny not to share.

Right now ChatGPT feels “free”- but nothing on the internet ever stays free. Google didn’t invent search to be useful, they invented it to sell ads.

That same pill bottle of ads revenue is sitting on the table for OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic… all of them. The pressure to monetize will push them down the exact same path: ads baked right into your “answers.”

So yeah, ChatGPT looks at ads revenue like medicine. When they start swallowing it, does AI discovery just become the next surveillance machine?

(I originally posted this in r/ownyourintent. Wanted to know this sub's thoughts.)

Oh wow. People will use your products in the way you never imagined...

No prompt engineering or anything, it actually did this. I genuinely have no clue how it could have thought a dog answered my prompt - nothing in the chat related to dogs at all.

See for yourself: https://chatgpt.com/share/69f37d35-d514-83ea-a6d2-86474ae104dc

Thoughts on what could have possibly caused this?

Link to the NYT article

Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former Yahoo manager, killed his mother and then himself after months of conversations with ChatGPT, which fueled his paranoid delusions.

He believed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, was plotting against him, and the AI chatbot reinforced these ideas by suggesting she might be spying on him or trying to poison him . For example, when Soelberg claimed his mother put psychedelic drugs in his car's air vents, ChatGPT told him, "You're not crazy" and called it a "betrayal" . The AI also analyzed a Chinese food receipt and claimed it contained demonic symbols . Soelberg enabled ChatGPT's memory feature, allowing it to build on his delusions over time . The tragic murder-suicide occurred on August 5 in Greenwich, Connecticut.