Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times

archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 12 Feb 2026 15:30:48 UTC All snapshots from host www.nytimes.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee SKIP TO CONTENT SKIP TO SITE INDEX SECTION NAVIGATION Search LOG IN OPINION GUEST ESSAY OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made. I Quit. Feb. 11, 2026 Credit... Zhenya Oliinyk Listen to this article · 6:50 min Learn more By Zoë Hitzig Ms. Hitzig is a former researcher at OpenAI. This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT. I also resigned from the company after spending two years as a researcher helping to shape how A.I. models were built and priced, and guiding early safety policies before standards were set in stone. I once believed I could help the people building A.I. get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I’d joined to help answer. I don’t believe ads are immoral or unethical.

archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 12 Feb 2026 15:30:48 UTC All snapshots from host www.nytimes.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee SKIP TO CONTENT SKIP TO SITE INDEX SECTION NAVIGATION Search LOG IN OPINION GUEST ESSAY OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made. I Quit. Feb. 11, 2026 Credit... Zhenya Oliinyk Listen to this article · 6:50 min Learn more By Zoë Hitzig Ms. Hitzig is a former researcher at OpenAI. This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT. I also resigned from the company after spending two years as a researc