Ad industry foresees another publisher traffic hit as OpenAIs AI agent, Operator, arrives [Video]

While OpenAI’s new agent program, Operator, promises operational efficiencies and personalized marketing opportunities, it also raises concerns, as advertisers and publishers navigate web traffic fallout and evolving consumer behaviors.

OpenAI on Thursday announced its highly anticipated AI agent program, Operator. The debut represents a significant milestone in the proliferation of autonomous agentic bots and pits OpenAI against competitors including Anthropic, Oracle, Google and a handful of others that have already debuted similar tools.

AI agents like Operator can be deployed to autonomously perform specific tasks or achieve designated goals, independently collecting data and interacting with their environments to take action.

Unlike some existing AI tools that require user intervention for execution, Operator can independently handle tasks like booking travel and ordering groceries.

“You give it a task and it will execute it,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post today. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage and …

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