Since OpenAI launched the iPhone application of ‘ChatGPT’ on the 18th, ‘fake’ apps that mimic the name and logo have been found to be rampant.

Based on a Bloomberg report on the twenty second (local time), should you seek for ‘ChatGPT’ within the App Store, quite a few apps with similar names similar to ‘ChatAI’ and ‘AI ChatBot’ appear.

Amongst them, an app called ‘ersatz ChatGPT’ makes its logo just like Open AI and requires an expensive subscription fee, while ‘Chat AI’, which removes one space from ‘Chat’ and ‘AI’, costs $28 per 30 days after three days of installation. charge a subscription fee It’s costlier than OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT Plus’ fee of $20 per 30 days.

Apps with names just like ‘ChatGPT’ are frequently borrowed from Open AI’s large language model (LLM), GPT-3 or GPT-4, and added functions based on it. There may be also a view that this might help bypass geo-restrictions in countries where ChatGPT is banned.

A developer named Eleventhirteen, who created ‘Chat AI’, said, “I haven’t any intention to mimic ‘Chat GPT’.” “There are over 1 million lively users per 30 days, and differentiated features similar to AI’s role selection function, camera integration, and skilled tools, etc. app,” he said.

It is thought that some chatbot services are recording significant sales. App Nation founder Yalchin Özdemir, who actually created an app called ‘Genie AI’, said, “We now have secured greater than 3 million lively users and made $3.5 million in sales last month.” , surpasses the ‘ChatGPT’ app in features similar to accessing web links.”

OpenAI, Google, and China’s Baidu first launched chatbots as web sites fairly than apps for user convenience. Nevertheless, apps just like ‘ChatGPT’, Google’s ‘Bard’ and Baidu’s ‘Hernibot’ are already on the App Store. Baidu sued Apple and a few software developers on this regard.

Bloomberg asked ‘ChatGPT’ for its opinion on these similar apps, and said, “These fake apps use similar logos and brand names to mislead users or make the most of ChatGPT’s status.”

Reporter Jeong Byeong-il jbi@aitimes.com