ChatGPT is a service that is currently in vogue, as we have already told you in recent months, to the extent that it has come to steal much of the attention from other AIs, such as image generation, which has become so popular for a large part of the last year . We must realize that it is not a perfect service and that it is not the first one capable of generating text from a query (we also have the amazing GPT 3 there), but for various reasons ChatGPT has become much more relevant than others.

One of these reasons is the chat format, as its name suggests. That is, unlike other AIs in which we have to tread very thinly when typing you wantChatGPT proves to be much more capable of correctly interpreting our words, even if we do without punctuation marks, make some mistakes and of course with idioms and localisms. What matters is what we want to ask, not how we ask, and that is a big step forward.

Another reason that we obviously cannot ignore is that, at least for now and for private use, ChatGPT is free. To use it, you just need to create a user account with Open AI, the company that created the service, and from that moment you can start chatting with this amazing AI without worrying about hypothetical economic costs. We don’t know if this free model will be maintained in the future or if we will instead have to resort to other services that integrate it, such as perhaps Bing, to continue raising our doubts.

The iOS App Store is full of people putting ChatGPT in a paid wrapper with ambiguous language to make you believe you’re paying for ChatGPT pic.twitter.com/3w0rK14E5I

— Austen Allred (@Austen) January 7, 2023

Be that as it may, the truth is that today it is a free service, but of course there is always someone who tries to take advantage of these cases and this time is no exception. As some users have started to point out in social networks, the iOS app store was filled with apps to access ChatGPT. That in itself is fine, isn’t it? The problem is that the creators of these apps do they charge fees (weekly, monthly and yearly) to access the service.

Some link directly to ChatGPT, while others state that the service is based on GPT 3. On the other hand, the description of these apps is ambiguous enough that the user might think that ChatGPT is a paid service and that everything the app does uses the billing mentioned. But of course, this is not the case, and in addition, this use of the service probably violates the terms of the ChatGPT license.

At this point it is appropriate to slap Apple on the wrist, a company that watches day and night to keep the App Store clean of all kinds of threats to users, but it seems that on this occasion it looked for a different direction, because the presence of this type of application is more than abundant. I don’t want to be wrong and assume that by offering in-app purchases with a matching commission for Apple, the company has decided to be more lax, but of course there’s either a clear and emphatic answer about these apps, or there isn’t.