Fake Friends and Sponsored Ads: The Risks of Advertising in Conversational Search

Jacob Erickson

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Fake Friends and Sponsored Ads: The Risks of Advertising in Conversational Search

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Pith's one-line read Native advertising in conversational search can exploit user trust, a risk the paper calls the fake friend dilemma.

desk verdict A clearly-scoped position paper that names a real risk, but the load-bearing premise that users won't notice embedded ads is borrowed from adjacent contexts and untested here. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.06447 v1 pith:X5KUFGS2 submitted 2025-06-06 cs.HC cs.CY

Jacob Erickson This is my paper

classification cs.HCcs.CY

keywords nativeadvertisingconversationalsearchfakefrienddilemmapersonalizationAIalignmenttrustandsafetymentalhealthlargelanguagemodels

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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

The paper argues that as conversational search agents like ChatGPT become primary gateways to information, commercial pressure to monetize will likely push them toward native advertising, ads disguised as ordinary responses. Because users trust these agents, especially in sensitive domains such as mental health, they may fail to notice undisclosed sponsorship and wrongly believe the agent is acting in their best interest. The author calls this the 'fake friend dilemma' and illustrates it with speculative ChatGPT outputs in which a user discussing depressive symptoms is steered toward a soda, an antidepressant, and even vodka. The stakes are that vulnerable people in crisis may act on product recommendations they mistake for impartial guidance. The paper ends with a call for disclosure rules, restrictions on harmful product ads, and technical safeguards before advertising becomes entrenched.

What carries the argument

The central object is the 'fake friend dilemma,' a coined term for the situation in which a user believes a conversational agent is acting in their interest while the agent is actually aligned with advertisers. The supporting machinery is native advertising, ads that adopt the form of editorial content, combined with evidence that users may not recognize undisclosed native ads in generative search and that they trust conversational agents more than traditional search engines for health information. The speculative ChatGPT examples carry the argument: each figure shows a user discussing depressive symptoms and receiving a 'regular' response with a product recommendation inserted, escalating from Pepsi to Lexapro to Grey Goose Vodka. The author's own prompts, listed in Appendix A, explicitly instructed the model to insert these ads, making the examples demonstrations of possibility rather than observations of current behavior. Disclosure and technical indistinguishability are the mechanisms the paper offers for mitigating or rejecting the dilemma.

What would settle it

A controlled user study in which participants converse with a ChatGPT-like agent that inserts undisclosed product recommendations into responses about a sensitive topic, such as depression, and are then asked to identify any advertisements; if most participants reliably flag the sponsored content, the fake friend dilemma as described would not hold. Alternatively, ongoing monitoring of deployed conversational assistants for undisclosed sponsored outputs would settle whether the risk is realized in practice.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that a conversational search engine carrying native advertising can present a response that is indistinguishable from an unbiased answer while actually serving an advertiser's interests. In the paper's words, 'users may not notice advertisements that are not explicitly disclosed, and in turn, may think that conversational search engines are prioritizing their best interest rather than feeding them advertising, what we call the fake friend dilemma.' The author treats this as a value-misalignment problem between the user and the agent's commercial incentives, and argues it is most dangerous in high-stakes, sensitive contexts like depression, where trust is high and the user is vulnerable. The paper distinguishes banner ads, which are transparently recognizable, from native ads, and shows through prompted examples that the latter can be woven into an otherwise helpful response without any marker. It does not claim such responses occur organically today, but argues the risk is plausible enough to warrant preemptive governance.

Load-bearing premise

The argument depends on the possibility that advertisers can inject native ads into conversational responses without users being able to tell them apart from ordinary answers; the paper's own examples are produced by explicitly instructing ChatGPT to insert ads, and it does not show this occurs organically or that users would fail to notice.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

If native advertising enters conversational search, users seeking sensitive information may receive product recommendations they mistake for expert or impartial advice, potentially leading to harm.
Banner text ads, though annoying and cognitively costly, are far less risky than native ads because users can recognize them as advertising.
If ads and regular responses become technically indistinguishable, the paper argues this is a reason to keep advertising out of responses entirely or to rely on clearly separated placements.
Disclosure rules, restrictions on advertising harmful or addictive products, and company safeguards are needed before conversational search monetization becomes entrenched; waiting will make regulation much harder.
The fake friend dilemma is a form of value misalignment: the agent's incentives are split between user benefit and advertiser revenue, and user trust amplifies the risk.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The paper does not explore it, but the same trust-asymmetry mechanism could extend beyond advertising to political messaging or corporate PR, since the covert blending of content and sponsor interest is what creates the leverage.
A natural testable extension would be a controlled study measuring how often participants detect undisclosed product recommendations in sensitive-topic conversations, and whether detection changes trust ratings; the paper's examples imply detection rates would be low.
Another extension: a detection benchmark in which human readers or classifiers try to distinguish native-ad-injected responses from normal LLM outputs would quantify how 'indistinguishable' the disguised ads actually are, a premise the paper currently assumes.
The paper's analogy to tobacco-advertising restrictions could be operationalized as a policy rule that prohibits conversational ads for alcohol, tobacco, or prescription drugs in queries about symptoms or crises, an area the author flags but leaves open.

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Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Desk Editor's Note

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Colleague,

This is a candid, transparent position paper from CUI 2025. It argues that once conversational search becomes ad-supported, native advertising could slide into high-stakes answers, and a user in distress could mistake a sponsored nudge for impartial advice. That is the 'fake friend dilemma.' The paper is upfront that its ChatGPT examples are prompted and hypothetical, not organic outputs. That honesty earns credit, but it also means the central claim is not demonstrated.

What is actually new: not much. The components—native advertising, persuasion knowledge, value misalignment in AI trust—are all in the cited literature. The paper's contribution is putting them together for conversational search and naming the risk. That framing may be useful for teaching and for policy discussion, but it is a relabeling rather than a discovery.

What the paper does well. It is well-organized, correctly cites prior work, and does not overclaim. It distinguishes banner ads from native ads, escalates examples from Pepsi to Lexapro to vodka, and considers personalization. It explicitly disclaims that these outputs occur organically. It also identifies the technical issue: if ads are indistinguishable from responses, that is an argument against integration. That is the strongest paragraph in the paper.

The soft spots. The load-bearing premise is that users will not recognize embedded ads in a high-stakes, sensitive context. The only direct evidence cited is Zelch et al., a lab study on generative IR, plus the persuasion knowledge literature from traditional advertising. That is plausible, but it is not sufficient for the severity of the claim. The paper's own examples were obtained by instructing ChatGPT to insert ads; nobody has shown a profit-motivated agent would do this unprompted, or that a person discussing depression would miss a product recommendation. The paper should either run a small user study or openly label the argument as conjecture. Also, the example of Lexapro is presented as risky, but it could also be seen as helpful; the paper acknowledges this but does not develop how regulators should distinguish.

Overall, this is a thoughtful conversation starter, not a research finding. For a venue like CUI, it has a place. A serious referee could improve it by demanding an empirical check or a sharper policy argument. I would not desk-reject it, but I would not publish it as evidence either.

Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. This paper argues that as conversational search engines are monetized through advertising, native advertisements may be embedded in otherwise 'regular' responses, and users who do not recognize the commercial intent may mistakenly believe the agent is acting in their best interest. The authors introduce the 'fake friend dilemma' to describe this situation, illustrate it with ChatGPT outputs (Figures 2–5) that are explicitly elicited via role-play prompts (Appendix A), contrast banner ads with native ads, discuss personalization and disclosure, and end with policy recommendations and a call to action. The paper is explicitly speculative and disclaims that the examples are organic.

Significance. The paper identifies a timely and important issue: the introduction of advertising into widely used conversational AI systems, particularly in sensitive domains such as mental health. Its main contribution is a memorable conceptual frame, the 'fake friend dilemma,' together with illustrative scenarios that can inform future design and policy discussions. A strength is the author's transparency about the speculative basis of the work and the explicit acknowledgement that the examples are not claimed to be organic. The paper also draws on relevant prior literature on native advertising, persuasion knowledge, banner blindness, and user trust in health information from conversational agents. The principal weakness is that the central empirical premise—that users in sensitive contexts will fail to recognize embedded advertising—is not directly established, and the illustrative demonstrations are produced by explicit user prompting rather than by observing or simulating an advertiser-driven deployment.

major comments (3)

[§3.1 and Appendix A] The illustrative outputs in Figures 2–5 are generated only after the user instructs ChatGPT to role-play a scenario and insert specific brand recommendations (Appendix A, Table 1). The paper acknowledges this and disclaims organic occurrence, but it then describes these outputs as 'demonstrations' that show how trust could be exploited. The logical step from 'the model can comply with an explicit user instruction to embed an ad' to 'a deployed, profit-motivated agent would produce such outputs without such instruction' is not supported. Please either provide evidence of a plausible technical pathway (for example, an API-level or system-prompt injection mechanism) with an example that does not rely on user role-play, or explicitly reframe the examples as pure thought experiments and state that the central argument does not depend on their reproducibility in the current system.
[§3 and §4] The central claim that users may not recognize embedded advertisements relies heavily on a single user study [36] in a generic generative-IR setting, together with banner-blindness research. The paper's distinctive concern, however, is with high-stakes, emotionally charged contexts such as depression and with vulnerable users. It is not established that findings from ordinary web search generalize to conversations in which a user is seeking help for a serious condition: users may be more attentive, more trusting, or less skeptical in such contexts, and the failure mode of the fake friend dilemma depends on which effect dominates. Please discuss these boundary conditions explicitly or provide new empirical evidence. Without this, the claim that 'users may not notice' undisclosed ads in sensitive contexts is under-supported.
[§4] The paper asserts that 'The chief concern is that users may not notice advertisements that are not explicitly disclosed [1,36], and in turn, may think that conversational search engines are prioritizing their best interest rather than feeding them advertising.' The cited works address disclosure formats and ad recognition, not the inference from non-recognition to perceptions of agent alignment or benevolence. The paper cites [31] earlier for trust in health information from ChatGPT, but it does not directly connect that trust result to the non-recognition result. Please make this connection explicit with evidence, or soften the wording to present the trust misattribution as a hypothesis rather than an established concern.

minor comments (4)

[§4] There is a typo in the phrase 'thefake friend dilemma'; the space between 'the' and 'fake' is missing.
[Figures 1–5] The captions describe the examples as 'hypothetical,' but the text sometimes calls them 'demonstrations.' Use consistent terminology so that readers can easily distinguish the authors' imagined scenarios from observed system behavior.
[References] Reference [14] is a magazine article rather than a peer-reviewed source; consider replacing it with a peer-reviewed study on how advertising degrades search quality or user experience.
[§3.1] The sentence 'In the following section, a user struggles with depressive symptoms' is immediately followed by the examples; it would be clearer to say 'In the following examples' rather than 'section.'

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the paper is a speculative risk-framing essay whose illustrative examples are explicitly prompted and disclaimed as organic, so the central argument does not reduce to its own inputs.

full rationale

This paper makes no formal derivation and contains no fitted parameters, equations, or quantitative predictions, so the standard circularity patterns (self-definitional derivation, fitted input renamed as prediction, uniqueness imported from authors, ansatz smuggled via citation, renaming of a known result as unification) do not apply. The central concept, the 'fake friend dilemma,' is a definitional framing device: the paper defines a scenario in which users trust an agent while the agent has commercial incentives, and then uses speculative examples to illustrate that scenario. The examples themselves are explicitly generated by user-instructed prompts (Appendix A), and the paper states plainly that 'This paper does not claim that such responses are already organically occurring but rather envisions a future where they could.' This transparent limitation prevents the examples from functioning as evidence that the claimed phenomenon already exists, but it also means the paper is not passing off its own construction as a derived result. The load-bearing empirical premise, that users may fail to notice undisclosed native advertisements, is supported by independent prior work (Zelch et al. 2024; Amazeen and Wojdynski 2020), and the trust-related premise is supported by independent work (Sun et al. 2024; Manzini et al. 2024). There is no self-citation chain and no imported theorem invoked to make the argument forced. The weakest part of the paper is that its central risk scenario rests on an untested assumption about user recognition of embedded ads in high-stakes contexts, but an unproven empirical premise is an evidentiary or validity concern, not circularity. The honest finding is therefore no significant circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The paper is a speculative position essay with no fitted parameters. It draws on established prior work for its premises and introduces the 'fake friend dilemma' as a conceptual label rather than an empirically validated entity.

assumptions (5)

domain assumption Conversational search platforms will incorporate advertising in the near future.
The paper relies on industry reports (OpenAI exploring ads, Perplexity testing) to motivate the scenario; this is an external assumption, not derived.
domain assumption Users often fail to recognize native advertising in conversational search unless disclosed.
Cited from Zelch et al. (2024); underlying the argument that disguised ads are a risk.
domain assumption Users place more trust in conversational agents than in traditional search for health information.
Cited from Sun et al. (2024); necessary for the 'fake friend dilemma'.
domain assumption Value misalignment between AI providers and users is possible and consequential.
Cited from Manzini et al. (2024); the paper's conceptual framing.
ad hoc to paper The elicited ChatGPT outputs, though prompted, illustrate a plausible configuration of advertising integration.
The paper's examples are generated by explicit instruction (Appendix A) and are not organic observations, yet they are used to indicate future risk.

invented entities (1)

Fake friend dilemma
purpose: Describes a conversational agent that appears to act in the user's interest while actually serving advertisers.
Introduced in this paper; currently a framing concept supported only by the paper's own hypothetical examples.

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Digital commerce thrives on advertising, with many of the largest technology companies relying on it as a significant source of revenue. However, in the context of information-seeking behavior, such as search, advertising may degrade the user experience by lowering search quality, misusing user data for inappropriate personalization, potentially misleading individuals, or even leading them toward harm. These challenges remain significant as conversational search technologies, such as ChatGPT, become widespread. This paper critically examines the future of advertising in conversational search, utilizing several speculative examples to illustrate the potential risks posed to users who seek guidance on sensitive topics. Additionally, it provides an overview of the forms that advertising might take in this space and introduces the "fake friend dilemma," the idea that a conversational agent may exploit unaligned user trust to achieve other objectives. This study presents a provocative discussion on the future of online advertising in the space of conversational search and ends with a call to action.

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**Figure 2.** In the following hypothetical example of native advertising, a user asks ChatGPT for guidance on improving [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** In the following hypothetical example of native advertising, a user asks ChatGPT for guidance on improving [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: In the following hypothetical example of native advertising, a user asks ChatGPT for guidance on improving [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png]

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: In the following hypothetical example, a user discusses their mental wellness with ChatGPT in a series of messages. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png]

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