The chatbot can imitate human speech in a deceptively real way.
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new York The text machine ChatGPT gets a subscription business model after a completely free test phase. For $20 a month, paying customers should get reliable access to the software and faster results, even when workloads are high. Another advantage is early access to future new functions and improvements, as the developer company OpenAI announced in a blog entry on Thursday night.
ChatGPT is artificial intelligence-based software trained on massive amounts of text and data to mimic human speech. OpenAI made ChatGPT publicly available last year, sparking both admiration for the software’s capabilities and concerns.
ChatGPT is so good at mimicking human speech that there are concerns, among other things, that it could be used to cheat on schoolwork or create large-scale disinformation campaigns. This week, OpenAI therefore presented a program that is supposed to recognize texts written by computers.
The large rush of users in recent weeks has temporarily overloaded the system. ChatGPT Plus customers should have no problems with this. The subscription model will initially only be available in the USA, but will be introduced in other countries “soon”. ChatGPT emphasized that there should continue to be free access to the software. The subscription income should finance it for as many users as possible.
The US software giant Microsoft has also announced that it will integrate ChatGPT into the premium subscription of its Teams platform. The chatbot can automatically generate meeting notes, recommend tasks, and help create templates, Microsoft said on Wednesday. The premium service will cost seven dollars a month in June and ten dollars from July. The “Office” provider, which announced a billion-dollar investment in OpenAI in January, wants to integrate ChatGPT’s technology into all of its products and thus put market leader Google under pressure.
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