ChatGPT: Everything about the AI-powered chatbot

OpenAI’s text-generating chatbot, ChatGPT, has gone viral. Over 92% of Fortune 500 companies use a behemoth tool to increase productivity by writing essays and coding with brief text prompts for more general uses.

Although ChatGPT has a negative aspect, AI tools are here to stay. ChatGPT boasts 100 million weekly active users since its introduction over a year ago, and OpenAI is investing extensively in it.

The company is not investing in former CEO Sam Altman’s leadership after a weekend that presented and dispelled the possibility of his return after a sudden firing on November 17 after the board stated they had lost confidence in him. OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, was interim CEO, but Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear took over after a hectic weekend.

Prior to the leadership crisis, OpenAI held its first developer conference, DevDay, on November 6. It introduced GPT-4 Turbo, a multimodal API, and a GPT store where users can design and sell custom GPT versions at the conference.

GPT-4, which writes more fluidly and fluently, is mostly available to ChatGPT subscribers. Bing Chat on Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Safari lets you access GPT-4 for free. GPT-4 and OpenAI DevDay announcements aside, OpenAI recently opened ChatGPT to the internet for all users. Users can generate text prompts and pictures in ChatGPT using DALL-E 3.

ChatGPT product upgrades and releases, from the latest to the latest, have been updated throughout the year. For further questions, see our ChatGPT FAQ.

Latest ChatGPT updates timeline
November 19: Confirmed: Sam Altman will leave OpenAI as CEO.
After OpenAI’s board fired Altman, investors and staff tried to bring him back, but after a weekend of discussions, it was announced that new leadership would take over. The future of ChatGPT and OpenAI Dev Day announcements is unknown.

On November 17, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was sacked. OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO after he leaves the board and steps down as CEO. OpenAI states in a blog post that the board “no longer has confidence in [Altman’s] ability to continue leading OpenAI.”

Altman told X that OpenAI “was transformative” for him and “hopefully the world.”

OpenAI examines ChatGPT’s classroom applications.
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said at a San Francisco conference that the business may form a team to explore educational uses of AI and ChatGPT. ChatGPT is being attacked by instructors for facilitating cheating, leading to school district bans.

On November 16, OpenAI halted new ChatGPT Plus memberships owing to increased usage.
After OpenAI’s Dev Day conference, Sam Altman announced a ChatGPT Plus subscription freeze. Due to the temporary hold on sign-ups and the desire for ChatGPT Plus’ new capabilities like bespoke GPTS, eBay has many resellers.

ChatGPT is deemed child-unfriendly.
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit advocacy group, determined ChatGPT may harm children in an impartial investigation. The research gave ChatGPT a three-star rating, with its lowest scores in openness, privacy, trust, and safety.

November 9
OpenAI accuses DDoS for ChatGPT outage.
OpenAI verified ChatGPT and developer tool disruptions were caused by a DDoS attack. Users couldn’t log into or utilize ChatGPT for 24 hours due to intermittent outages.

On November 6, OpenAI introduced GPT-4 Turbo.
OpenAI DevDay presented GPT-4 Turbo for the first time. GPT-4 Turbo has two versions: one that analyzes text just and another that recognizes image context.

GPT-4 is tuned.
Due to technical challenges, OpenAI reports that GPT-4 will require greater oversight and guidance from OpenAI staff than GPT-3.5.

OpenAI’s GPT Store enables you create and market GPTs.
Users and developers will soon be able to create GPTs without coding. Anyone constructing a GPT can list it on OpenAI’s marketplace and monetize it later.

ChatGPT has 100 million weekly users.
Since its release about a year ago, ChatGPT has 100 million weekly active users. Over two million developers, including 92% of Fortune 500 businesses, use OpenAI, according to CEO Sam Altman.

OpenAI announces DALL-E 3 API, new TTS models
After appearing in ChatGPT-4 and Bing Chat, OpenAI’s text-to-image model DALL-E 3 is now available via API. Audio API, OpenAI’s new text-to-speech API, has six preset voices and two generative AI model versions.

OpenAI will defend corporate customers against copyright lawsuits.
OpenAI will reimburse clients’ IP lawsuit costs after peer pressure. Not all OpenAI products, including ChatGPT’s free and Plus tiers, are protected.

Research indicates OpenAI’s multimodal API is faulty as it launches broadly.
OpenAI revealed that GPT-4 with vision will launch with GPT-4 Turbo API. However, several researchers uncovered several major flaws in the concept.

OpenAI API lets developers add ‘assistants’ to apps.
At OpenAI DevDay, OpenAI launched the Assistants API to allow app developers create “agent-like experiences”. A natural language-based data analysis app, coding helper, or AI-powered holiday planner are examples.

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October 30
ChatGPT app income remains steady, but it’s not #1.
OpenAI’s chatbot app has the most mobile downloads, but it’s not the most profitable AI software. Other AI chatbots like “Chat & Ask AI” and “ChatOn — AI Chat Bot Assistant” make more than ChatGPT.

October 29
ChatGPT tests Plus users’ file upload and analysis.
Recent beta improvements include the ability to upload PDFs for analysis and directly ask questions about them. The new rollout eliminates the need to manually pick ChatGPT modes like DALL-E and browsing. Users will automatically switch models based on prompts.

October 18: ChatGPT launches online search.
Three weeks after relaunching its internet-browsing capability in beta after months, OpenAI launched it on ChatGPT. Through September 2021, the AI chatbot was confined to data.

October 18
OpenAI adds DALL-E 3 to ChatGPT
The integration makes text-prompts less important when asking DALL-E to create an image. Users can now obtain graphics with text-based requests without switching apps.

October 17
Microsoft-affiliated research finds GPT-4 flaws
A Microsoft-affiliated study examined LLMs’ “trustworthiness” and toxicity, including GPT-4. GPT-4 is more prone to follow “jailbreaking” prompts, therefore the co-authors say it can be prompted to spew toxic, prejudiced content more easily than other LLMs.

October 9
ChatGPT’s mobile app earns $4.58M in September, a record.
September saw 15.6 million iOS and Android app downloads and $4.6 million in global revenue for OpenAI. Appfigures data shows revenue growth has slowed from 30% to 20% in September.

September 27
Internet browsing is back for ChatGPT.
OpenAI tweeted/X that ChatGPT can now explore the internet and not just data before September 2021. In July, the chatbot allowed Plus customers to browse the web, but users exploited it to bypass paywalls.

September 25, 2023
Now ChatGPT speaks.
OpenAI added a new voice for verbal interactions and image-based smarts to its chatbot.

September 21, 2023
Polish investigators probe OpenAI
The Polish government publicly initiated an investigation against ChatGPT, accusing the company of many GDPR violations.

September 20, 2023
OpenAI introduces DALL-E 3
ChatGPT helps fill prompts in DALL-E 3, the updated text-to-image converter. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscribers can enter in an image request and refine it with the chatbot, obtaining the results via the chat app.

September 7, 2023
Opera GX uses ChatGPT AI.
Aria, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, launched on Opera in May to simplify searching, asking questions, and coding. Opera GX, a gaming browser, will get Aria today.

Opera GX users may now search for gaming news and tips using a browser AI.

August 31, 2023
OpenAI publishes a ChatGPT instructor guide.
Due to plagiarism, ChatGPT has been contentious in the classroom. OpenAI seeks to repair its image in education. OpenAI offers several classroom chatbot uses.

August 28, 2023
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Enterprise
ChatGPT Enterprise can write emails, articles, and debug code like ChatGPT. Besides vanilla ChatGPT, the new package offers “enterprise-grade” privacy and data analysis, improved performance, and customization possibilities.

Survey reveals few Americans utilize ChatGPT.
Recent Pew polling reveals the language model isn’t as popular or threatening as some claim. ChatGPT is increasing mindshare, but only 18% of Americans have used it, according to Pew Research.

August 22, 2023
OpenAI finetunes GPT-3.5 Turbo.
Companies employing GPT-3.5 Turbo’s API can fine-tune the model to follow directions. Have the model always answer in a certain language. Or enhancing the model’s ability to format responses consistently and its “feel”—like tone—to fit a brand or voice. Most importantly, fine-tuning lets OpenAI customers minimize text prompts to speed up API requests and save money.

Companies can fine-tune GPT-3.5 using OpenAI and Scale AI. OpenAI may be building an in-house tuning tool to complement Scale AI or for a different reason.

Adjusting costs:

Training: $0.008/1K tokens
Use $0.012/1K tokens.
Usage: $0.016/1K tokens
August 16, 2023
Global Illumination joins OpenAI
OpenAI announced it purchased Global Illumination, a New York business using AI to build creative tools, infrastructure, and digital experiences, in its first public acquisition in seven years.

“We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” the company noted on its blog. “The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.”

August 10, 2023
Free ChatGPT users get ‘custom instructions’.
OpenAI announced that all users, even free users, can now use custom instructions. Users can specify preferences and needs for the AI chatbot to consider while responding.

August 1, 2023
China requires administrative licenses for AI apps.
Several generative AI apps have been withdrawn from Apple’s China App Store ahead of August 15’s new laws.

“The government has tightened regulations on deep synthesis technologies (DST) and generative AI services, including ChatGPT. Apple wrote to OpenCat, a native ChatGPT client, that DST must obtain a license from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to operate in China. “According to our review, your app is linked to ChatGPT, which lacks Chinese permits.”

July 25, 2023
ChatGPT for Android is now in US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Android days after setting up a Google Play preorder page. Several countries now have the app.

July 21, 2023
Android will get ChatGPT.
Android users can “pre-order” ChatGPT.

It appears that the Android ChatGPT app has most of the web-based version’s functionalities. Syncing chats and preferences between devices should be possible, so you can use an iPhone at home and an Android at work.

July 20, 2023
OpenAI customizes ChatGPT instructions
Custom instructions from OpenAI allow ChatGPT users to avoid writing the same prompts to the chatbot each time.

This feature lets you “share anything you’d like ChatGPT to consider in its response.” For instance, a teacher can declare they teach fourth-grade arithmetic or a developer can specify their preferred code language when asking for advice. One can set their family size so the text-generating AI can provide dinner, grocery, and vacation planning suggestions.

July 13, 2023
OpenAI may be under FTC investigation.
According to reports, the FTC is investigating whether OpenAI’s ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” claims about people.

Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch correspondent:

The FTC doesn’t just glance around and say, “That looks suspicious.” They investigate after a lawsuit or formal complaint and if the activities described imply regulation violations. A person may sue a supplement company because the pills got them sick, and the FTC will investigate because the company misrepresented about negative effects.

July 6, 2023
OpenAI made GPT-4 public.
All OpenAI developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4 starting July 6. End of July, OpenAI will allow new developers.

OpenAI plans to let developers fine-tune GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo, one of ChatGPT’s original models, with their own data, as they have with several of its other text-generating models. That capacity should arrive later this year, says OpenAI.

June 28, 2023
ChatGPT can now only search Bing.
OpenAI added Browsing, which lets ChatGPT Plus users search Bing for answers, to the program.

In the New Features section of the app settings, pick “GPT-4” in the model switcher and “Browse with Bing” from the drop-down list to enable Browsing. Both iOS and Android ChatGPT apps allow browsing.

June 15, 2023
Mercedes adds ChatGPT to its infotainment.
U.S. Mercedes MBUX users can opt into a beta test starting June 16 to activate ChatGPT. The very versatile broad language model will improve the car’s talking skills. Just tell your automobile, “Hey Mercedes, I want to join the beta program.”

The purpose is unclear.

June 8, 2023
The iPad version of ChatGPT supports Siri and shortcuts.
The new ChatGPT app supports Siri, Shortcuts, and native iPads. Drag-and-drop lets users move ChatGPT messages to other programs.

ChatGPT now runs in full-screen mode on iPad, tailored for its UI.

May 30, 2023
Texas judge mandates declaration and verification of all AI-generated content
The Texas federal judge now requires attorneys to certify that “no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence,” or that it was verified “by a human being.”

May 26, 2023
ChatGPT app reached 30+ countries.
Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Estonia, Ghana, India, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Nauru, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Slovenia, Tunisia, and UAE are new countries.

May 25, 2023
11 new countries have ChatGPT.
OpenAI tweeted that the ChatGPT mobile app is now available on iOS in the U.S., Europe, South Korea, and New Zealand, and more will soon be able to download it. In six days, the app reached 500,000 downloads.

The iOS ChatGPT app is now available in Albania, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and the UK. More soon!

@OpenAI May 24, 2023

May 18, 2023
OpenAI releases iOS ChatGPT.
ChatGPT goes mobile. The company says the new ChatGPT app will be free, ad-free, and allow voice input, but it will initially be limited to U.S. consumers.

ChatGPT’s mobile app syncs your web search history across devices, so it can show you what you searched for. For voice input, the app is connected with OpenAI’s open-source speech recognition system Whisper.

May 3, 2023
Hackers distribute malware on Facebook using ChatGPT lures.
On May 3, Meta reported a spike in ChatGPT malware across its platforms. The company says its security researchers have found 10 malware families exploiting ChatGPT (and related themes) to distribute malware to customers since March 2023.

Meta security engineers Duc H. Nguyen and Ryan Victory wrote in a blog post that threat actors have created malicious browser extensions in official online stores that purport to offer ChatGPT-based capabilities. “They then promoted these malicious extensions on social media and sponsored search results to trick people into downloading malware.”

April 28, 2023
Closed $300M share sale by ChatGPT parent OpenAI at $27B-29B valuation
According to TechCrunch records, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, and K2 Global are buying shares. A source says Founders Fund invests. At $27 billion to $29 billion, VCs have invested over $300 million. A source told TechCrunch that this is independent from Microsoft’s large investment announced earlier this year, which completed in January. Our source estimated Microsoft’s investment at $10 billion.

April 25, 2023
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Business subscription.
OpenAI calls its new product ChatGPT Business “for professionals who need more control over their data as well as enterprises seeking to manage their end users.”

OpenAI noted in a blog post that ChatGPT Business will follow our API’s data usage standards and won’t use end users’ data to train our models by default. “We plan to launch ChatGPT Business in the coming months.”

April 24, 2023
Patenting “GPT” by OpenAI
OpenAI trademarked “GPT,” short for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer,” in December. Last month, the business asked the USPTO to speed up the process due to “myriad infringements and counterfeit apps” appearing.

Unfortunately, OpenAI’s appeal was denied last week. The government claimed OpenAI’s counsel failed to pay a fee and present “appropriate documentary evidence supporting the justification of special action.”

That may delay a decision by five months.

April 22, 2023
Silicon Valley’s latest automation effort is Auto-GPT.
Game developer Toran Bruce Richards’ open-source app Auto-GPT leverages OpenAI’s latest text-generating models, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, to connect with web software and services and “autonomously” accomplish tasks.

Depending on the tool’s purpose, Auto-GPT may exhibit surprising behavior. With $100 to spend in a server instance, Auto-GPT created a cat wiki page, exploited a weakness to get admin-level access, took over the Python environment, and then “killed” itself, according to reddit.

April 18, 2023
AI like ChatGPT might ‘turbocharge’ fraud, says FTC.
In a congressional hearing, FTC head Lina Khan and fellow commissioners told House representatives that ChatGPT might “turbocharge” fraud.

Khan told House representatives, “AI presents a whole set of opportunities, but also presents a whole set of risks.” I think we’ve seen ways it might boost fraud and frauds. We’ve warned market participants that AI systems meant to deceive can lead to FTC action, she said.

April 17, 2023
The new Superchat AI chatbot allows you message historical and fictitious personalities via ChatGPT.
SuperChat, from the company behind Brass, StickerHub, and others, lets iOS users chat with virtual characters powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. What sets SuperChat apart from the default experience or the dozens of generic AI chat apps is the characters you can use to engage with its AI features.

April 12, 2023
Italy provides OpenAI with ChatGPT suspension order lifting tasks.
Italy’s data protection authority has outlined what OpenAI must do to lift its injunction against ChatGPT from last month, when it feared the AI chatbot service was in violation of the EU’s GSPR and ordered the U.S. corporation to stop processing locals’ data.

OpenAI has until April 30 to meet DPA compliance requirements. (The local radio, TV, and online awareness campaign has a somewhat longer deadline of May 15.)

April 12, 2023
Researchers create ChatGPT that is always harmful.
Using the ChatGPT API to give ChatGPT a “persona” like “a bad person,” “a horrible person,” or “a nasty person” enhances its toxicity sixfold, according to a study by Allen Institute for AI scientists. Even more concerning, the co-authors found that having the conversational AI chatbot pose as historical figures, gendered people, and political party members increased its toxicity, with journalists, men, and Republicans causing the machine learning model to say more offensive things.

The latest version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 was used for the research, not the preview model.

April 4, 2023
Y Combinator-backed startups are developing ‘ChatGPT for X’
Four businesses at YC Demo Day Winter 2023 claim to be building “ChatGPT for X.” If Acumen Research’s optimistic projection comes true, the customer support software market will be valued $58.1 billion by 2023.

The following YC-backed startups drew our attention:

Yuma, which serves Shopify retailers, offers ChatGPT-like AI solutions that interact with help desk software to propose ticket responses.
Baselit lets organizations incorporate chatbot-style insights for clients using OpenAI’s text-understanding model.
Lasso uses ChatGPT-like interface, RPA, and a Chrome extension to automate operations based on customer descriptions or videos.
BerriAI helps developers create ChatGPT apps for organization data via data connections.
April 1, 2023
Italy bans ChatGPT.
In Italy, OpenAI has geoblocked ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot.

Italy’s data protection authorities has ordered OpenAI to stop processing people’s data locally immediately, reminding us that some countries already have regulations on cutting-edge AI. The Italian DPA is investigating ChatGPT for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

March 29, 2023
1,100+ petitioners demanded that AI labs cease for six months in an open letter.
The letter was signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Center for Humane Technology’s Tristan Harris. The letter asks “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”

The letter says:

Modern AI systems are now human-competitive at broad tasks[3], so should we allow robots saturate our communication channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate all jobs, even rewarding ones? Should we create alien minds that could outnumber, outwit, and replace us? Should we risk losing civilization management? Unelected tech leaders should not make such decisions. We should only develop powerful AI systems if we know they will be beneficial and safe.

March 23, 2023
OpenAI connects ChatGPT online.
OpenAI plugins for ChatGPT gave the bot access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. OpenAI says it will prioritize a small number of developers and ChatGPT Plus subscribers before spreading out API access and larger-scale access.

March 14, 2023
GPT-4 from OpenAI appears on ChatGPT Plus.
OpenAI’s GPT-4 model understands images and text well. Paying ChatGPT Plus customers and the public API can access GPT-4, released March 14. Developers can queue for API access.

March 9, 2023
Azure OpenAI offers ChatGPT.
Microsoft’s fully managed, corporate-focused Azure OpenAI Service offers ChatGPT. Only “Microsoft managed customers and partners” can apply for privileged access.

March 1, 2023
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT API
ChatGPT’s premium API is another monetization tactic by OpenAI. Instacart, Snap, and Quizlet were its first customers.

February 7, 2023
Microsoft launches ChatGPT-enabled Bing.
Microsoft unveiled the long-rumored integration of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model into Bing at a press event in Redmond, Washington, creating a ChatGPT-like experience. Bing downloads increased 10x worldwide after the announcement, suggesting customer appetite for new AI experiences.

Outside of Microsoft, OkCupid, Kaito, Snapchat, and Discord used ChatGPT, putting pressure on Big Tech like Google.

February 1, 2023
ChatGPT Plus from OpenAI costs $20/month.
After ChatGPT became viral, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Plus, a $20-per-month test membership service to monetise the technology.

December 8, 2022
ShareGPT makes ChatGPT discussions easy to share.
Steven Tey and Dom Eccleston created ShareGPT, a Chrome extension, a week after ChatGPT was introduced to make it easier to capture and share the AI’s answers.

November 30, 2022
The public first saw ChatGPT when OpenAI surreptitiously published GPT-3.5.
ChatGPT, a refined GPT-3.5 chatbot, debuted. ChatGPT may discuss programming, TV scripts, and science.

As with OpenAI’s DALL-E model, writers and artists scowled at the new technology, but the chat-style version seemed to appeal to more people.

FAQs:
Describe ChatGPT. It works how?
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that generates text once a user enters a prompt. The chatbot employs GPT-4, a massive deep learning language model, to write like a person.

When was ChatGPT released?
On November 30, 2022, ChatGPT was made public.

Which ChatGPT version is latest?
ChatGPT Plus and free ChatGPT receive new GPT models often. Newest model is GPT-4.

Can I use ChatGPT free?
ChatGPT Plus and a sign-in-only free version are available.

Who uses ChatGPT?
Anyone can use ChatGPT! Chatbots are being used by increasing tech companies and search engines to automate text or swiftly answer customer requests.

Which firms use ChatGPT?
Many companies use ChatGPT, however others may limit its use.

Microsoft just announced at Build 2023 that it is incorporating ChatGPT-based Bing into Windows 11. A Brooklyn-based 3D display business, Looking Glass, uses ChatGPT to create chatable holograms. In order to help end users transition to web3, NGO Solana integrated the chatbot into its network with a ChatGPT plug-in.

ChatGPT GPT meaning?
GPT for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.

What distinguishes ChatGPT from Bard?
Bard, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, answers natural language questions. At its 2023 I/O event, Google stated that Bard will soon offer multimodal material, including rich images. For now, rich visuals are photos; subsequently, maps, charts, etc.

ChatGPT’s generative AI has survived longer than Bard and “learned” longer.

The difference between ChatGPT and a chatbot?
A chatbot can be any software/system that communicates with you, not just AI-powered. Rules-based chatbots answer inquiries with canned responses.

ChatGPT generates text after prompts using AI and LLM.

Could ChatGPT write essays?
Yes.

Can ChatGPT libelate?
These models only care if something looks true because of how they work. Yes, that’s an issue when you’re using it for homework, but libel if it accuses you of a crime you didn’t commit.

Over the next two months, IT and legal professionals will strive to handle ChatGPT’s worrisome comments, the industry’s fastest-moving target.

Has ChatGPT an app?
At launch, only U.S. iOS users can download the free ChatGPT app. OpenAi promises an android version “coming soon.”

The ChatGPT character limit?
ChatGPT’s character limit isn’t stated anywhere. Users have reported character limits after 500 words.

Does ChatGPT have API?
The release date was March 1, 2023.

What are some everyday ChatGPT uses?
Daily examples include programming, scripts, email replies, listicles, blog ideas, summary, etc.

What are advanced ChatGPT uses?
Programming languages, scientific principles, complicated problem solving, and debugging are advanced uses.

Does ChatGPT write code well?
Program type matters. ChatGPT can write functional Python code, but not an app. Because ChatGPT lacks context awareness, its generated code isn’t always appropriate for the context.

Can ChatGPT chats be saved?
Yes. OpenAI’s ChatGPT interface lets users keep chats in the sidebar. Share functions are not yet built-in.

Are there ChatGPT alternatives?
Yes. Together, Google’s Bard, and Anthropic’s Claude are AI-powered chatbot competitors, and developers are generating open-source alternatives. The latter are difficult or impossible to run today.

DeepMind, owned by Google, is using AlphaGo, its AI system that defeated a professional Go player, to create Gemini, a ChatGPT-rivaling chatbot.

Apple is building AI tools to fight OpenAI, Google, etc. Some Apple developers call its chatbot “Apple GPT,” but the company has yet to decide how to release it to consumers.

How does ChatGPT protect data?
OpenAI says people in “certain jurisdictions” (like the EU) can object to its AI models processing their personal data by filling out this form. You can request deletion of AI-generated references about you. OpenAI must balance privacy concerns against freedom of expression “in accordance with applicable laws” and may not grant all requests.

You can request data deletion through the “OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request” web form.

The ChatGPT maker mentions the objection requirements for using “legitimate interest” (LI) in its privacy policy, directing users to “See here for instructions on how you can opt out of our use of your information to train our models.”

What ChatGPT scandals exist?
Discord said that it has merged OpenAI’s technology into its bot Clyde, which two users duped into giving them meth and napalm-making instructions.

The Australian mayor has said he may sue OpenAI for defamation when ChatGPT falsely claimed he was imprisoned for bribery. First defamation lawsuit against text-generating service.

Futurism revealed that CNET was posting stories with an AI-generated byline, causing uproar. CNET’s private equity owner, Red Ventures, was accused of using ChatGPT for SEO farming, even if the material was false.

NYCPS and other large schools and institutions have banned ChatGPT from their networks and devices. Not all educators agree that AI promotes plagiarism and misinformation, which hinders learning.

ChatGPT has also falsely accused people.

Where can I find ChatGPT prompts?
Many marketplaces offer ChatGPT prompts for free or a little cost. One is PromptBase. Another is ChatX. New launches daily.

Can ChatGPT be found?
Poorly. Several technologies claim to recognize ChatGPT-generated text, however our experiments show uneven results.

Are ChatGPT talks public?
No. But OpenAI recently discovered a problem, since repaired, that exposed certain users’ discussion titles to other users.

Who owns ChatGPT-created material copyright?
Copyright belongs to the ChatGPT user who requested input.

What ChatGPT lawsuits exist?
Not ChatGPT-specific. However, OpenAI is involved in at least one litigation that affects ChatGPT and AI systems trained on public data.

Does ChatGPT have plagiarism issues?
Yes. Word-generating AI algorithms like ChatGPT often repeat their training data.