OpenAI's Chatbot Store is Filling Up With Spam

An anonymous reader shares a report: When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's first-ever developer conference in November, he described them as a way to 'accomplish all sorts of tasks' -- from programming to learning about esoteric scientific subjects to getting workout pointers. 'Because [GPTs] combine instructions, expanded knowledge and actions, they can be more helpful to you,' Altman said. 'You can build a GPT... for almost anything.' He wasn't kidding about the anything part.

TechCrunch found that the GPT Store, OpenAI's official marketplace for GPTs, is flooded with bizarre, potentially copyright-infringing GPTs that imply a light touch where it concerns OpenAI's moderation efforts. A cursory search pulls up GPTs that purport to generate art in the style of Disney and Marvel properties, serve as little more than funnels to third-party paid services, advertise themselves as being able to bypass AI content detection tools such as Turnitin and Copyleaks.

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