Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS
by lancesells on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:18PM
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> So, on what ground do you suggest they should be blocked from submission? Slapping a custom UI on a third party API is fine, if a bit distasteful in certain situations.
I recall about a month of Show HN being largely populated by this same soft of thing. I'm definitely not arguing with misrepresentation of an official OpenAI app but there's a lot of this happening inside and outside the app store.
> They would be "fake" if they claim to be made by OpenAI, which they don't.
Very many did that or implied an association with OpenAI, which is why OpenAI had to release updated branding guidelines (https://openai.com/brand) and started enforcing takedowns against apps/domains using GPT in their name.
Sure, I was looking at the top apps just now. Apparently OpenAI is explicitly okay with WhateverChat powered by ChatGPT.
This is pretty typical for the App Store / Play Store and isn’t anything particular to OpenAI. If there is a third-party service Foo that app Bar uses, then “Foo Bar” is questionable for trademark reasons and the common practice is to use “Bar for Foo” instead.
Here’s an interesting real-time shift in language happening.
You just referred to these things as ‘chat apps’.
And that seems reasonable - they use a chat interface.
But they aren’t ‘chat apps’ as we would have understood them a few months ago. They don’t let you chat with people. They let you chat with an LLM.
Is the word ‘chat’ changing its meaning?
Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS
by personjerry on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:52PM
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The term "chatbot" has been around for a while so it's not really new to "chat" with a bot rather than a human
Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS
by wahnfrieden on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:48PM
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it changed the moment the product and api were named chatgpt …
So, on what ground do you suggest they should be blocked from submission? Slapping a custom UI on a third party API is fine, if a bit distasteful in certain situations. Tons of people on this very forum work on glorified wrappers.