Don’t Pay for This ChatGPT Scam Clone
ChatGPT took the internet by storm late last year , proving that AI has come a lot further than most of us thought. You can use ChatGPT to write an essay, plan your weekly recipes, tell you a story, code an app, just about anything you can think of. But you must use it from the official OpenAI ChatGPT website and not from an unaffiliated 3rd party app. Spoiler alert: they are all scammers.
While ChatGPT technology has attracted millions of curious users, what made it so accessible was OpenAI’s decision to release ChatGPT for free, at least in its current state. While the company charges for the use of its other AI tools, such as DALL·E 2 , anyone with an Internet connection can try ChatGPT for themselves and ask it whatever they want without any restrictions.
That’s why it’s so frustrating to see sneaky 3rd party non-OpenAI developers trying to charge people for ChatGPT. One app, according to MacRumors , is particularly egregious: “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3” (catchy name) is free to download, and it very cleverly looks like OpenAI’s official ChatGPT app, while having absolutely nothing to do with the company. generally.
ChatGPT Chat GPT AI with GPT-3 connects you to ChatGPT through a native app rather than a web browser, but it puts limits on what you can do. Unlike the real deal, the scam app limits the number of requests you can make to the bot and shows you ads. If you want to remove the question limit and ads in the app, it will cost you $7.99/ week or $49.99/year, which is complete bullshit. If that wasn’t enough, according to MacRumors, the app doesn’t even always produce relevant results to your question, so it doesn’t care what it claims to exist for.
The app is still available on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store at the time of writing, and I want to be clear: don’t pay for it. Don’t even download. There is no need to add to the application metrics, which are depressingly good. It is currently the second busiest productivity app on the iOS App Store, with over 12,000 ratings, with an average of four and a half stars. However, some users are talking about the scam nature of the app, so hopefully these reviews will float up as more attention is given to them. Apple even displays advertisements for the app in its App Store, further exacerbating the problem.
Oddly enough, while ChatGPT is relatively new, the app is over four years old, which means it used to be something completely different. This is a common tactic used for apps that distribute malware, and while there are no reports that this particular app is anything more than a manipulative money grab, you’d better be safe than sorry.