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Last thing I searched for on the Apple App store was the OpenAI chat app, to converse with ChatGPT plus. The assessment that the App Store is full of scams and

• tagyro 3y ago
  This actually hits very close. As the developer - disclosure - of AKME, an iOS app that uses the OpenAI API, in a fairly private manner, I also noticed the myriad of apps that use misleading descriptions (as in, advertising the use of GPT-4, when, in fact, they use GPT-3.5 - ask me how I know), or don't actually use OpenAI at all (again, ask me how I know), buy reviews etc and charge user exorbitantly priced subscriptions. Part of the generated profits are then invested in Search Ads, which pushes them to the top and trick more users into downloading ...rinse and repeat. I made sure my app has no tracking, users that have an OpenAI account can use their own API key (via a Bring-Your-Own-Key model) while those that don't have one can buy in-app tokens (if I may say, decently priced, taking into account the "Apple tax") while also investing a lot of work into crafting dedicated prompts to improve the quality of answers.