Previously, people who were chatbot-curious needed an account of sorts to utilize OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT pre-generative artificial intelligence platform, but it looks like the company is set to remove that barrier to entry.
When logged in with an email account ChatGPT could save and store a history of prompts or conversations users made use of on the platform. However, account-less users will now have a slightly distinct experience that includes “additional safeguards,” such as “blocking prompts and generations” for a much wider number of categories enabling users to possess more granular privacy controls when using the platform.
As a partner with OpenAI, Microsoft will also support the removal of account-only access to ChatGPT on its end allowing users to play around with a more robust version of their in-box Windows Copilot experience.
In the face of several controversial experiences that include nude deepfakes of Taylor Swift, high profile hallucinations, cheating and ethical concerns as well as general consumer harm OpenAI marches on with its core mission that reads:
It’s core to our mission to make tools like ChatGPT broadly available so that people can experience the benefits of AI. More than 100 million people across 185 countries use ChatGPT weekly to learn something new, find creative inspiration, and get answers to their questions.
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For now, OpenAI has embedded the update regarding account-less access to its core mission statement simply acknowledging the updated policy with, “Starting today, you can use ChatGPT instantly, without needing to sign-up. We’re rolling this out gradually, with the aim to make AI accessible to anyone curious about its capabilities.”
