Recently, the chat robot ChatGPT has become popular. This intelligent chat robot developed by OpenAI is considered to be likely to replace the search engine. Google and Baidu have also announced that they will launch their own "ChatGPT".
The popularity of ChatGPT has aroused the enthusiasm of many domestic publics for "trial play". The Beijing News Shell Finance reporter found that because ChatGPT has not opened a service directly facing the country, many domestic small programs and public accounts have been called ChatGPT. , to provide intelligent robot chat service for netizens.
After testing a variety of domestic "ChatGPT" chat services, Shell Finance reporters found that the replies of some programs are very similar to the real ChatGPT replies, suspected to be linked to the ChatGPT interface, while the replies of other programs are quite different from ChatGPT.
In addition, many APPs or small programs that attract netizens to click in the name of "ChatGPT" have many restrictions on their services. They even have to watch a 30-second advertisement to answer a question, or have to recharge 9.9 yuan to continue after answering four questions. ChatGPT "cottage" products.
However, as of February 8, the names of many public accounts or small programs directly under the banner of "ChatGPT" have been unable to be searched.
Official accounts and small programs get together "ChatGPT" to ask questions to see advertisements
"I tried to use ChatGPT, but I felt that the questions answered were not professional, and there was a charge, which was not as magical as the legend said." After ChatGPT became popular, some netizens reported that they found the ChatGPT service on the WeChat official account, but the experience was not good.
A reporter from Shell Finance and Economics found that there are currently many public accounts and small programs in China that claim to provide ChatGPT services.
On February 8, a reporter from Shell Finance entered a small program with more than 1,000 users. Its brief introduction is "OpenAI official interface, probably the most useful ChatGPT question-and-answer small program on the entire network."
A reporter from Shell Finance and Economics found that the mini program can provide a question-and-answer service similar to ChatGPT, but the answer is often only half, and it cannot continue due to the "word limit".
The applet stated in the pop-up window that it provides a ChatGPT registration-free user interface, and also "synchronizes updates" with the ChatGPT official website. It also issued an announcement saying that it will suspend use for half a day on February 8 for "maintenance and upgrade".
A reporter from Shell Finance and Economics found that the official account authentication subject pointed to in the mini program link is an information consulting studio in Haikou, the IP address is Hubei, and the authentication type is "self-employed". The official account was registered as early as December 14, 2022. , the name is "AIChat Intelligent GPT Service Assistant", and later changed its name to "chattGPT Chinese Answer Assistant" (one more t than the official name).
The profit model of the official account/mini program operator is to open a "super membership" to unlock unlimited conversations, remove the word limit for answers, and quickly respond to exclusive lines.
And another official account that claims to provide "ChatGPT intelligent dialogue and super AI members" is a "science and technology studio" in Jiangxi. ChatGPT dialogue web version”, but the reporter found that in the dialogue window provided by it, you have to watch the advertisement for 22 to 30 seconds before you can receive a reply. If you don’t want to watch the advertisement, you must register as a member. /3 months.
In addition, spending 88 yuan can also become a "senior partner", whose duty is to help promote, and can have "20% commission, earning 10-30 yuan per order".
It is worth noting that before searching for "ChatGPT" on WeChat, you can see the search results of dozens of public accounts that claim to provide ChatGPT services, but perhaps too many "fake" accounts triggered the platform's review mechanism. On the afternoon of the 8th, the Beijing News Shell Finance reporter searched with the keyword "ChatGPT" and found that there is no official account or applet directly named after it. Many official accounts previously named "ChatGPT" or similar names have been deleted. With the removal of the name, the "chattGPT Chinese Answer Assistant" mentioned above also became an "unnamed official account" on February 8, but the content of the official account is still there.
How to identify "Li Gui" ChatGPT? Answer quality is key
Shell Finance reporters tested multiple domestic versions of the "ChatGPT" service and found that some of the service providers blurred their relationship with the official ChatGPT, while others made it clear that they only provided the official ChatGPT service interface.
For example, the person in charge of Shanghai Entropy Cloud Network Technology Co., Ltd., which provides ChatGPT services ranging from 9.99 yuan to 999.99 yuan in its WeChat service account, has publicly stated that all dialogue replies sent through its platform are obtained through direct connections to OpenAi’s interface. Each question and answer needs to be paid to Open AI, and the specific cost is determined by the length of the characters in the dialogue.
The reporter asked a number of domestic ChatGPT service providers direct questions and compared with the official ChatGPT and found that, from the perspective of reply quality, some domestic service providers do provide interfaces for ChatGPT with a high probability, while others may not. Linked to the ChatGPT service, a different AI conversational model was used instead.
For example, when a reporter asked a domestic "ChatGPT service provider" for self-introduction information, he did not answer that he was ChatGPT, and did not actually write a program for the request for "writing a crawler program". The official ChatGPT not only directly answered except In addition to his own identity, he also wrote a real crawler program.
For the questions answered by domestic "ChatGPT service providers", each time you answer a question, you need to see an advertisement.
In this regard, some network security practitioners told the Shell Finance reporter that there are currently only two models of "ChatGPT service providers" in China: one is to obtain the official interface of ChatGPT, and then provide it to domestic users. The other is a complete "cottage", the quality of the AI dialogue model used is not as good as that of ChatGPT, and naturally it cannot give high-quality answers.
Regarding the technological breakthrough of ChatGPT compared with other artificial intelligence chatbots, Liu Jie, director of Ronglianyun AI Research Institute, told the reporter of Shell Finance that ChatGPT introduced a reinforcement learning mechanism. Data to learn, also introduced manually labeled data in the new version, through human feedback, targeted optimization.
ChatGPT testing service is currently available for free Plus fee-based membership is limited to the United States
ChatGPT’s official website clearly stated in the Q&A column that ChatGPT’s current testing service is provided to users for free.
From February 7th to 8th, Shell Finance reporters encountered network congestion many times when logging on to the official website of ChatGPT. In response, ChatGPT stated that its service was running at full capacity, please try again later, but provided a "ChatGPT Plus member" to log in options.
According to foreign media reports, ChatGPT Plus membership is $20 a month, and it is only available to US users for the time being.
The main reason for setting up the Plus membership is that ChatGPT uses cloud computing services, and the cost of generating each word is 0.0003 US dollars, and if an answer is 30 words, the cost is 1 US dollar.
According to the current number of users and frequency of use, ChatGPT has to bear the server cost of 3 million to 4 million US dollars a month.
Liu Jie told the Shell Finance reporter that the current industrialization path of ChatGPT is likely to be on the C side, "ChatGPT allows us to see a promising general AI path, and its ability performance is very good, whether it is the understanding of user language or language generation. The ability to express and reason about some complex issues is a level that many of our models did not have before, and the interaction with users for complex tasks is very natural and open."
Charging for the C-side is one of the ways for ChatGPT to monetize. Regarding whether it will focus on the B-side in the future, Liu Jie believes that due to the creativity of the large model displayed by ChatGPT and the ability to understand the context of the long text, it may focus on some openness , creative and versatile tasks.
However, in the To B industry, which requires more serious and rigorous artificial intelligence and emphasizes data security, especially customer service, voice, marketing and other fields, it is necessary to fully consider industry characteristics and business knowledge, and use targeted design and training for lightweight pre-training The model is more suitable to meet the needs of customers in AI applications under the current IT infrastructure conditions.
For non-open source large-scale model applications such as ChatGPT, how to balance cost, flexibility, and data privacy is a key issue for its fine-tuning on downstream tasks. Enterprise-level customers, especially the step of large enterprise customers.”
Luo Yidan, Shell Finance reporter of the Beijing News