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 Apple害羞草研究所檚 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 害羞草研究所渟yncs your history across devices.害羞草研究所�

害羞草研究所淲e害羞草研究所檙e starting our rollout in the U.S. and will expand to additional countries in the coming weeks,害羞草研究所� said a blog post announcing the new app, which is described in the App Store as the 害羞草研究所渙fficial app害羞草研究所� by OpenAI.

It害羞草研究所檚 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 害羞草研究所� where most people access the internet.

害羞草研究所淲e害羞草研究所檙e not trying to get people to use it more and more,害羞草研究所� 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 害羞草研究所渇leeceware害羞草研究所� 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 害羞草研究所渉yper-optimized害羞草研究所� to rank highly in Apple害羞草研究所檚 App Store search results, said Migliano, head of research at Top10VPN.com.

害羞草研究所淔or many of those who have already downloaded a clone, it害羞草研究所檚 likely they will simply stick with the ChatGPT apps they already have and continue to have their personal data harvested and sold,害羞草研究所� Migliano said.

Altman told Congress this week that his company doesn害羞草研究所檛 try to maximize engagement because it doesn害羞草研究所檛 have an advertising-based business, and because it害羞草研究所檚 costly to train and run its AI models on computer chips known as graphics processing units.

害羞草研究所淚n fact, we害羞草研究所檙e so short on GPUs, the less people use our products, the better,害羞草研究所� 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 OpenAI害羞草研究所檚 chatbot technology can also be found in other apps, such as the 害羞草研究所淢y AI害羞草研究所� feature on Snapchat.

Matt O害羞草研究所檅rien, The Associated Press

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