Chatgpt is the Warmer discussion in the technological industry. The Openai chatbot that answers questions in natural language has aroused the interest of users and developers. Some developers try to take advantage of the trend by making dubious applications – both on the App Store and the Play Store – which aim to earn money in the name of the professional versions or additional credits to obtain more AI answers.
It is important to remember that the chatpt is Free to use for anyone on the web And Openai did not publish any official mobile application. Although there are many applications that benefit from GPT-3, there is no official chatgpt API.
As Macrumors noted, an application called “Chatppt chat GPT AI With GPT-3“, Managed to reach the best graphics in the productivity category in several countries (update: after publication, this particular application was removed from the App Store. But many Other applications Reference to “chatgpt” in their name or its description remains.)
Although the application is free, it offers weekly ($ 7.99) and monthly ($ 49.99) packs to have unlimited conversations with the AI bot. Some of the application criticisms suggest that the subscription does not add any value and the application seems to be false. There is no way to know if the application produces tangible results because I could not exceed the loading screen.
In particular, the developer had a similar application on the Play Store with more than 100,000 downloads (archived link), but it has been deleted now.
During the weekend, the CEO of the startup Edtech Bloomtech Austen Allred tweeted that the App Store was full of applications – without association with OPENAI – which are trying to charge money for the use of chatgpt.
The iOS app store is full of people who put the Chatppt in a paid wrapper with an ambiguous language that would allow you to believe that you pay for the Chatppt pic.twitter.com/3w0rk14e5i
– Austen Allred (@Austen) January 7, 2023
Google Play Store is also filled with Summary chatgpt applications With thousands of downloads that do not offer any usable feature.
Meanwhile on Google Play… Failing 1star chatgpt application with> 100K Downloads. pic.twitter.com/5fj5seitwp
– nisen (@nisten) January 6, 2023
The playbook of these applications is to include chatgpt in the name of the application and appears favorably in the search results by strengthening their own notes. Some people also develop several applications with similar names in the hope that one of them attracts the attention of users.
It is not clear if Apple and Google actively take measures on these applications. The two companies have not commented on history.
Application developers cloning websites or other popular applications is not a new trend. Previously, we have seen the Apple and Google application stores flooded from clones Mess,, Three And Flaming bird. The question is how these platform guards act quickly and strictly, if all.
Updated, 1/10/23, 3:05 p.m. HE to note the deletion of a prominent chatgpt application.