ChatGPT is now a smartphone app, which could be good news for people the artificial intelligence chatbot and bad news for all the clone apps that have tried to profit off the technology.

The free app became available on iPhones and iPads in the U.S. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android devices. Unlike the desktop web version, the mobile version on Apple91裸聊视频檚 iOS operating system also enables users to speak to it using their voice.

The company that makes it, OpenAI, said it will remain ad-free but 91裸聊视频渟yncs your history across devices.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檙e starting our rollout in the U.S. and will expand to additional countries in the coming weeks,91裸聊视频� said a blog post announcing the new app, which is described in the App Store as the 91裸聊视频渙fficial app91裸聊视频� by OpenAI.

It91裸聊视频檚 been more than five months since OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public, sparking at its ability to generate convincingly human-like essays, poems, form letters and conversational answers to almost any question. But the San Francisco startup never seemed to be in a hurry to get it onto phones 91裸聊视频� where most people access the internet.

91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檙e not trying to get people to use it more and more,91裸聊视频� OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a hearing over how to such as those built by his company.

The delay in getting the product on phones helped fuel a rise of clones built on similar technology, some of which the security firm Sophos described as 91裸聊视频渇leeceware91裸聊视频� in a report this week because they push unsuspecting users toward enrolling in a free trial that converts into a recurring subscription, or use intrusive advertising techniques.

Another privacy researcher, Simon Migliano, said the official ChatGPT app might eventually starve similar-sounding apps of new users, but that could take a while because many of those apps were given names deliberately intended to confuse people into thinking they already have the official app. They were also 91裸聊视频渉yper-optimized91裸聊视频� to rank highly in Apple91裸聊视频檚 App Store search results, said Migliano, head of research at Top10VPN.com.

91裸聊视频淔or many of those who have already downloaded a clone, it91裸聊视频檚 likely they will simply stick with the ChatGPT apps they already have and continue to have their personal data harvested and sold,91裸聊视频� Migliano said.

Altman told Congress this week that his company doesn91裸聊视频檛 try to maximize engagement because it doesn91裸聊视频檛 have an advertising-based business, and because it91裸聊视频檚 costly to train and run its AI models on computer chips known as graphics processing units.

91裸聊视频淚n fact, we91裸聊视频檙e so short on GPUs, the less people use our products, the better,91裸聊视频� Altman said.

The new app does include an option to pay for a premium version of ChatGPT with additional features. Along with those subscriptions, the company makes money from developers and corporations that pay to integrate its AI models into their own apps and products.

Its chief partner, Microsoft, of dollars into the startup and has integrated ChatGPT-like technology into its own products, including a chatbot for its search engine Bing.

The ChatGPT app will now compete for attention with the Bing chatbot already available on iPhones, and could eventually compete with a mobile version of . Versions of OpenAI91裸聊视频檚 chatbot technology can also be found in other apps, such as the 91裸聊视频淢y AI91裸聊视频� feature on Snapchat.

Matt O91裸聊视频檅rien, The Associated Press

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