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This Week in Startups · 2025-12-09 · 62 min · 12,434 words

What's REALLY going on with those "ads" in ChatGPT | E2220

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Oh, let me guess. Let me guess. Hit me. I I have some concepts here because that ad is for target. It's a generic ad.

The copy up there was for some sort of technical memory. It went by pretty quick, but some memory technology hardware. It looked like discussion it was having with ChatGPT. So it's not a targeted ad. It's an ad for Target.

Kind of. Keep going. Okay, it says shop at Target. So here's what I think happened. I think this person downloaded a Chrome extension or some other third-party app that was inserting ads covertly or sneakily, and that they wound up conflating that with OpenAI.

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