OpenAI is driving the adoption of GPT, third-party applications powered by its ai models, by allowing ChatGPT users to invoke them in any chat.
Starting today, paid users of ChatGPT, OpenAI's ai chatbot interface, can add GPT to a conversation by typing “@” and selecting a GPT from the list. The chosen GPT will comprise the entire conversation, and different GPTs can be “tagged” for different use cases and needs, jumping into the conversation with the context of things that were said previously.
“This allows you to add relevant GPTs with the full context of the conversation,” OpenAI said in a tweet.
The move to make GPTs more discoverable comes weeks after the launch of the GPT Store, a marketplace for GPTs that can be accessed through the ChatGPT dashboard. Creating GPTs requires no coding experience and GPTs can be as simple or complex as the developer wishes. Some available today include a route recommender from AllTrails, a code tutor from Khan Academy, and a content designer from Canva.
OpenAI plans to eventually introduce monetization for developers who wish to sell access to their GPTs. But the company may have to increase traffic first. According ai-news/chatgpt-custom-gpts/”>data According to web analytics company Similarweb, custom GPTs account for only about 2.7% of ChatGPT's global web traffic so far, and custom GPT traffic has been declining month over month since November.
Moderation is proving to be another challenge. In the first week of its launch, the GPT Store was flooded with “romantic” chatbot apps, some of which were sexually suggestive, a clear violation of OpenAI terms. Developers also rushed to create political campaign bots such as a chatbot posing as US presidential candidate Dean Phillips, another obvious violation.
OpenAI, which claims to use a combination of human and automated review to flag GPT, has since removed some of the offending apps. But if GPT volume grows as the company clearly expects, one imagines the problem will only get worse.
