OpenAI to Provide ChatGPT AI Chatbot Access to Users Without Sign-Up

OpenAI will make its ChatGPT AI chatbot available to users without requiring them to register for the service. The moves comes at a time when the company is trying to garner more and more customers amid a tough race with peers.

OpenAI to Remove Sign-up Option for ChatGPT AI Chatbot

According to Reuters, on Monday, the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI announced that users will no longer need to register in order to access its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot, which is available for free.

The goal of the feature, according to the San Francisco-based startup, is to “make AI accessible to anyone curious about its capabilities.”

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ChatGPT AI Chatbot Sees Slump in Customer Base

GenAI took off in late 2022 when ChatGPT, which mimics human speech, was able to write poems, summarize lengthy texts, and even come up with theme party ideas.

Reuters also highlights that according to data analytics company Similarweb, the well-known business, which broke the record for having the fastest-growing user base, has suffered a slowdown in growth since May 2023, when its traffic reached a height of 1.8 billion web views.

Will No Sign-up Pose Threat to Privacy?

ChatGPT AI Chatbot has already been under the radar for potential malwares. According to recent reports, researchers found that AI programs such as ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini can serve as havens for malware threats.

The study found a malware worm that “is not a vulnerability in the GenAI service and exploits bad architecture design for the GenAI ecosystem.” After the 1988 Morris worm, which brought down almost 10% of all internet-connected PCs, this malware worm is known as Morris II.

With the new no sign-up move, the question now arises if it will pose an issue for users of the application. For users visiting ChatGPT without creating an account, OpenAI claims to have added further content protections, including the ability to restrict prompts and generations over a larger variety of categories. These categories were not specified.

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