OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now available as a free (and ad-free) mobile app for Apple phones in the U.S. According to the app description, it offers: instant answers, tailored advice, creative inspiration, professional input and personalized learning.
Since the ChatGPT artificial intelligence text generator launched in November 2022, it has been met with both interest and concern. KNX recently held a town hall event about the future of A.I. technology such as ChatGPT.
“So, your feeding in a lot of information, and then you give this algorithm a task, and then it spits out a result based on the information that you’ve given it,” explained town hall participant Justine Bateman, an actress and screenwriter who has a degree in computer science and digital media management from the University of California, Los Angeles. “So, the problem with that is – a lot of the information you’re giving it, most of the information you’re giving it – is work that humans have done. Say, for example, screenwriters.”
Essentially, it replaces writers with their own work, she said. Writers in the entertainment industry are already on strike over unfair treatment.
In the months between ChatGPT’s launch and its recent appearance on the app store, it has been making headlines. One report from Audacy chronicled the rise and fall of “Nothing, Forever,” a ChatGPT-fueled animated streaming project that was removed from Discord when its characters started spouting homophobic and transphobic content.
Over the past few months, other AI writing apps have also popped up on the iPhone store, but the recent launch is the first official offering from ChatGPT, according to WIRED. It is offered for users who are at least 12 years old and it is compatible with the iOS 16.1 operating system for iPhone 8 or newer hardware models.
“As with the original web model of the chatbot, the free-to-use version is built on GPT-3.5, and its most capable persona built on GPT-4 is accessible only if you’re paying $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus,” said WIRED. It also said that OpenAI expects to expand the app to other countries in the coming weeks and to release an Android version soon.
According to WIRED, the biggest difference between the browser and app versions of ChatGPT is that “you can now talk to the chatbot instead of just typing,” thanks to the OpenAI speech recognition system Whisper. Per the outlet, “it’s unclear whether ChatGPT will have the same freewheeling personality in the new iOS app as the original form of ChatGPT on OpenAI’s own website, given Apple’s strict content moderation policies in its App Store.”
Previously, Apple delayed approval of the BlueMail email app over concerns about artificial intelligence technology, according to a Wall Street Journal report. According to WIRED, Apple’s app store requirements prohibit “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content,” or content that is “offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust, or in exceptionally poor taste,” as well as overtly sexual or pornographic material inflammatory religious content, and “false information and features.”
“ChatGPT has some limitations built in, but they can be sidestepped, and the chatbot, like other generative AI tools, is widely documented to sometimes present falsehoods and fabrications as fact, a phenomenon known as hallucination,” WIRED reported. It said OpenAI did not respond to questions about any additional parameters it may have included in its iOS model.
With the new app, OpenAI could collect new data from the speech recognition feature and potentially location data, the outlet added.
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