The decision to open the service is limited only to using the free version of the “GPT Chat” robot, because the company’s other services, such as the “Dali-3” image generation service, require a paid subscription and registering an account (Getty).
OpenAI announced that it will allow the use of the free version of the “GPT Chat” chatbot without the need to register for an account on the site, according to what was reported by Reuters.
Since the company made the robot available at the end of November 2022, it required registering an account with an email and phone number on the site. However, users can now benefit from the services of the free version “GPT-3.5” and try them directly by entering the user interface, and the company also indicated in a post on its blog that it is “working to introduce the matter gradually, with the aim of making artificial intelligence available to everyone.” "Whoever wants to know his abilities."
We're rolling out the ability to start using ChatGPT instantly, without needing to sign-up, so it's even easier to experience the potential of AI. https://t.co/juhjKfQaoD pic.twitter.com/TIVoX8KFDB
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) April 1, 2024
The company also said it had put in place “additional content protections” for that experience, including blocking written commands for a wider range of content categories, but did not provide further details about the nature of these categories. She pointed out that creating an account on the site has many advantages, including the ability to save and review conversation history, share those conversations with others, and benefit from some additional features such as voice conversations and personalized instructions.
It is noted that the matter is limited only to using the free version of the “GPT Chat” robot, because the company’s other services, such as the “Dali-3” image generation service, require a paid subscription and account registration, as well as the latest version “GPT-4” (GPT). -4), which is the paid version of the “GPT Chat” robot.
OpenAI reported that more than 100 million people in 185 countries use the GPT chatbot weekly. The "SimilarWeb" website, which specializes in tracking the number of visits to websites, found that the "GPT Chat" website is still the most visited artificial intelligence website, and its number of visitors reached 1.6 billion visitors last February, despite an increase in... Using Gemini, a competitor to Google.
However, the number of visits to GBT Chat has decreased slightly from its highest levels reached in May 2023, when the number of visits exceeded about 1.8 billion visits at that time.
Making GPT Chat available without having to register an account means that the number of visits may reach new highs when the feature is made more widely available. These new updates may not only tell us about the extent of the development that artificial intelligence technologies have currently reached, but they prove that the use of these technologies has become more available to everyone, and that it is no longer limited to specialized people, which could change our lives in the near future in a way that we did not expect.
Source: Reuters