OpenAI has launched its App Store for AI chatbots that can be customized.
OpenAI has opened up the world of GPT AI chatbots to developers, allowing them to create custom chatbots that can be used by anyone with access to the GPT store. This is basically like the App Store, but for AI chatbots created by OpenAI to continue their progress after the success of ChatGPT over the past 12 months.
The GPT Store was supposed to come out in December, but a month’s delay is fine for everyone, especially if the product keeps its promises and works as expected.
OpenAI wants people to introduce AI and publish their chatbots that can become part of everyone’s tools. The only catch with the GPT Store is that you need to sign up for OpenAI’s paid tiers, such as ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise, or the all-new ChatGPT Team.
Like any app store, the GPT Store aims to encourage developers who release their chatbots for public use. It plans to launch a revenue sharing program to attract more people to its GPT Store, which is understandable at this early stage.
The company has pointed out that revenue sharing is based on user engagement with their chatbots, which most likely looks at metrics such as time spent in the chatbot.
But chatbots have created chaos and fear of misinformation. How does OpenAI plan to combat such chatbots infiltrating the GPT Store?
The company is developing guidelines and a review policy that should take care of potential issues and add a reporting mechanism for users to report if they think the chatbot is malicious or dangerous. Chatbot commerce was always likely to be part of the next phase of development for OpenAI, which will also help make money to run the systems for these AI applications.
