iPhone ChatGPT app charges $7.99 per week for free AI chatbots

The hottest new thing on the internet is Chat GPTAI tools have captured the attention of the online world in recent weeks.Press and technical analysts predicted platform, or other similar platform, May eventually replace Google— Completely change the way you navigate the web.new york public school banned itReportedly, Microsoft $10 billion investment At the startup behind the chatbot.

And whether all the hype is justified or not, at least there is no charge check itYou may have to wait a bit on a virtual circuit to access your machine-learning-powered chatbot, but OpenAI’s text generator is free for everyone on the internet. Unless, of course, you choose to sign up for a $7.99 weekly subscription from an unaffiliated app.

In the cloud of excitement surrounding ChatGPT, some cunning actors are looking to profit. An avalanche of unidentified mobile apps claiming to be ChatGPT app store When play storeBut none are actually associated with OpenAI.

One app in particular made it to the top “free” apps in the App Store’s productivity category. At the time of writing, “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI with GPT-3‘ ranked as the 5th most popular download, overtaking Google Docs. The app uses the OpenAI logo and a name that is clearly meant to maximize search hits.

Although free to download, this fake ChatGPT app starts charging a comically high weekly subscription fee of $7.99 after 3 days. Alternatively, you can choose to pay a monthly fee of $49.99. This is more expensive than subscribing for four consecutive weeks. The app appears to be an interface that allows users to send prompts to the bot and receive generated text. however, report According to MacRumors, different apps have very different results. Unlike real ChatGPT, sometimes the app responds well to prompts, and sometimes what it spits out is completely irrelevant.

Open AI teeth Someone said they are working on an iOS app using ChatGPT. LinkedIn post Venture capitalist and podcaster Jason Karakanis claims to have been given access to the beta. However, the official mobile version of ChatGPT has not yet been published. For now, if you want to use your smartphone to get her AI-generated, human-like responses to your questions without excessive charges, you’ll have to stick to her web browser, which is available on your smartphone.

website A link to the App Store encourages visitors to “Experience the power of AI from your smartphone!” and offers an opportunity to “Try ChatBot GPT now!” However, once I tried to enter the prompt in the box it came with, I got a pop-up window saying I had reached my “limit” and had to download the app.

The “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3” app currently has a rating of 4.6 out of 5 and over 13,000 ratings. This is probably one of the reasons for its continued popularity. However, many of the written reviews focus on the app’s unreliability. , the cost, and the complete non-existence of a support team. Other criticisms include OpenAI-mimic providing incorrect answers to basic questions (to be fair, also a problem When using the real ChatGPT), it provides very short responses, simply doesn’t work and sends a lot of notifications.

According to MacRumors, “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3” has passed the Apple App Store review process multiple times since it was first released three weeks ago. On the other hand, deleted as originally reported By TechCrunch. Over 100,000 downloads before the Play Store version was removed.

Gizmodo reached out to both Apple and Google for more information about how they both manage these mock ChatGPT apps, but did not hear back immediately.