LLMMedium
OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path
- Occurred
- Feb 11, 2026
- Published
- Feb 11, 2026
- Source
- Ars Technica - AI
Summary
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
Tags
- AI
- Biz & IT
- advertising
- AI behavior
- AI ethics
- AI sycophancy
- Anthropic
- chatbots
- ChatGPT
- generative ai
- machine learning
- openai
- sam altman
- sycophancy
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Researcher resignation over ChatGPT ad testing reflects internal controversy regarding LLM commercialization.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8