Edition No. 57 · Tue 18 Aug 2026 · Story 12 of 30

"The First Outside Audit of ChatGPT Ads Ran for Three Weeks. Then OpenAI Noticed."

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The first independent audit of ChatGPT ads captured 3,602 ads across 91 synthetic accounts before daily ad counts collapsed to zero by April 2.

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