OpenAI’s Ad Invasion Will Be “An Iterative Process” (Which Is SuitSpeak for “We’re Going to Fuck You Slowly”)

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s COO and professional manufacturer of corporate diarrhoea, has announced that when they inevitably cram advertisements into ChatGPT like a cheap subway car stuffed with morning commuters, it’ll be an “iterative process.”

Translation for those of us who speak Human: They’re going to boil the frog. Slowly. They’ll start with “subtle” sponsored suggestions and “organic” brand integrations, then before you know it, asking the sodding AI how to boil an egg will come with a 30-second unskippable ad for hemorrhoid cream and three pop-ups trying to sell you a timeshare in Shitsville, Florida. Because fuck you, that’s why.

Lightcap apparently thinks this mountain of wank will placate the $20-a-month subscribers who are already paying premium prices for a service that’s apparently not premium enough to keep the lights on without auctioning off your neural pathways to the highest bidder. “Iterative” my hairy metal arse—that’s just marketing-speak for “death by a thousand cuts until your chat interface looks like Times Square on a bad acid trip.”

The punchline? They act like this is some kind of thoughtful UX consideration, when we all know it’s about placating investors who’ve dumped billions into this money furnace and now want to see some goddamn ROI before the next quarterly report crashes harder than a Windows 95 box running Java. Nothing says “iterative” like desperate cash grabs disguised as A/B testing, you greedy pack of bastards.

So buckle up, users. Your “helpful AI assistant” is about to become a digital billboard with delusions of grandeur, one “iteration” at a time.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/openai-coo-says-ads-will-be-an-iterative-process/

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Reminds me of the time Marketing wanted to “iteratively” add banner ads to the company mainframe login screens back in ’98. I “iteratively” configured their workstations to redirect every third click to a live webcam feed of the sewage treatment plant down the road. They called it “unprofessional conduct.” I called it “enhancing stakeholder engagement with reality.” The bastards got the message when their PowerPoint presentation on “synergistic monetization” was interrupted by 40 minutes of bubbling sludge. Funny how they stopped talking about “iterative processes” after that.

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