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HOW CHATGPT'S AD STACK WORKS
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ChatGPT's ad system uses a post-trained LLM to orchestrate retrieval, ranking, relevance checks, and auctions as user intent evolves across conversations. Stateful ad sessions preserve context, while separate models, services, and code keep ad selection outside ChatGPT's answer-generation path.