Your weekly update on how AI is changing our lives. Our experts keep it clear and simple, so you can stay ahead of the game. This week we are focussing on The GPT Store.
We’re barely halfway through November but the end-of-year lists are already being written up, and so far the subject of AI has a 100% success rate in dominating the top spots. Last week Collins Dictionary opened the hostilities by declaring, with blunt efficiency, that their word of the year was ‘AI’, and this week one of their main rivals has followed suit, albeit with more of a flourish; the Cambridge Dictionary word of 2023 is ‘hallucinate.’
The timing is doubly noteworthy with ChatGPT’s own first birthday approaching at the end of November; not only has this been a hallucinatory first year for chatbots, it’s also not getting any less strange as it comes to an end. OpenAI’s big GPT Store announcement has sparked chaotic reactions and confused questions across the industry, and also a good deal of old-fashioned drama. In the immediate wake of the new service’s launch, ChatGPT became unstable for a day before being taken offline completely for 90 minutes on Wednesday; OpenAI initially claimed this was due to increased demand, before acknowledging that they had also been on the receiving end of a DDOS attack carried out by unknown actors. A Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for the outage, but OpenAI then switched the narrative again, taking the remarkable step of 'pausing' new signups to ChatGPT Plus. It seems the increased demand was real after all!
That said, the question of exactly how popular ChatGPT’s subscriber services are is on a lot of people’s minds at the moment, as analysts attempt to unpack the new GPT Store announcements. Does OpenAI even have enough subscriber revenue to share with its creators? And perhaps more importantly, how much of it will be left following the firm’s promise to meet the legal costs of users facing copyright infringement claims? The GPT Store doesn’t just allow users to create and share their own bots, it also gives them the tools to upload their own training data, and many wonder how strong OpenAI’s commitment to defending their users will turn out to be when these tools are taken to their logical conclusion. Widespread copyright infringement on an industrial scale seems guaranteed, along with other worrying uses such as impersonation, misinformation and trolling. Have OpenAI hallucinated a brave new world where people won’t abuse their systems, or do they finally have the moderation tools necessary to keep their chatbots on the straight and narrow?
While we wait to find out, there’s no doubt that the GPT Store is a remarkable and powerful new tool, and we’ve prepared an essential guide to building your own chatbots to help you get started!
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