Chicago White Sox activate OF Austin Slater from the 10-day injured list

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago White Sox activated Austin Slater from the 10-day injured list on Monday after the outfielder made a speedy recovery from a knee injury.

Slater, 32, started in left field for Chicago's 5-1 loss to Seattle in the opener of a three-game series. He went 0 for 2 with two strikeouts, coming up empty when he batted with a runner on third and one out in the second inning.

To make room for Slater on the 26-man roster, infielder/outfielder Brooks Baldwin was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte.

Slater had surgery on April 15 to repair a meniscus tear in his right knee. He batted .385 (5 for 13) over four games in a rehab assignment with Charlotte.

“So imaging showed I had a slight tear,” Slater said before the loss to the Mariners. "So I went under and had surgery and that was almost five weeks ago. So way faster than I thought. I think when I initially hurt it, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s my season.’ That was my initial reaction, so pleasantly surprised by the recovery time I would say.”

Slater is batting .227 (5 for 22) with a homer in nine games with Chicago. He agreed to a $1.75 million, one-year contract with the White Sox in November.

“Anytime you miss an extended period, you know, and watching the guys, you just want to get back out there to help any way you can,” Slater said. “So that’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot.”

Baldwin, a 12th-round pick in the 2022 amateur draft, made his big league debut last year. He is batting .215 with three homers and 16 RBIs in 44 games with the White Sox this season.

“With some of these guys coming back and getting healthy, it’s going to be a little less playing time,” manager Will Venable said. “And he’s at a point in his career where he really needs to play. And we want to expose him to center field a little bit more, some more opportunity on the dirt. We just think really highly of him and want to give him a chance to have everyday at-bats.”

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Chicago White Sox's Austin Slater runs back to the dugout during the first inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in Chicago, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago White Sox's Austin Slater waits on a pitch during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in Chicago, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago White Sox's Austin Slater warms up before a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in Chicago, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago White Sox's Austin Slater waits on a pitch during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in Chicago, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago White Sox's Austin Slater, bottom, and Tim Elko warm up before a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in Chicago, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

OpenAI says it will soon start showing advertisements to ChatGPT users who aren't paying for a premium version of the chatbot.

The artificial intelligence company said Friday it hasn't yet rolled out ads but will start testing them in the coming weeks.

It's the latest effort by the San Francisco-based company to make money from ChatGPT's more than 800 million users, most of whom get it for free.

Though valued at $500 billion, the startup loses more money than it makes and has been looking for ways to turn a profit.

“Most importantly: ads will not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you,” said Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of applications, in a social media post Friday.

OpenAI said the digital ads will appear at the bottom of ChatGPT's answers “when there’s a relevant sponsored product or service based on your current conversation.”

The ads “will be clearly labeled and separated from the organic answer,” the company said.

Two of OpenAI’s rivals, Google and Meta, have dominated digital advertising for years and already incorporate ads into some of their AI features.

Originally founded as a nonprofit with a mission to safely build better-than-human AI, OpenAI last year reorganized its ownership structure and converted its business into a public benefit corporation. It said Friday that its pursuit of advertising will be “always in support” of its original mission to ensure its AI technology benefits humanity.

But introducing personalized ads starts OpenAI “down a risky path” previously taken by social media companies, said Miranda Bogen of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

“People are using chatbots for all sorts of reasons, including as companions and advisors," said Bogen, director of CDT’s AI Governance Lab. “There’s a lot at stake when that tool tries to exploit users’ trust to hawk advertisers’ goods.”

OpenAI makes some money from paid subscriptions but needs more revenue to pay for its more than $1 trillion in financial obligations for the computer chips and data centers that power its AI services. The risk that OpenAI won’t make enough money to fulfill the expectations of backers like Oracle and Nvidia has amplified investor concerns about an AI bubble.

“It is clear to us that a lot of people want to use a lot of AI and don’t want to pay, so we are hopeful a business model like this can work,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a post Friday on social platform X. He added that he likes the ads on Meta's Instagram because they show him things he wouldn't have found otherwise.

OpenAI claims it won't use a user's personal information or prompts to collect data for ads, but the question is “for how long,” said Paddy Harrington, an analyst at research group Forrester.

“Free services are never actually free and these public AI platforms need to generate revenue,” Harrington said. “Which leads to the adage: If the service is free, you’re the product.”

FILE - The OpenAI logo is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen with output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)