What a surprise Open AI gave us, it has presented a new way to access its excellent ChatGPT: now we can add it as a WhatsApp contact. We have tried it and we liked it, despite the drawbacks: it is like a know-it-all friend to whom we can ask almost anything. As long as it has happened beyond January 2022.
Although the flagship messaging application is basically used for what it was designed for, there are many other ways to take advantage of WhatsApp. And generative AI is expanding its possibilities: chatbots like LuzIA, or Meta AI itself, allow everything from resolving doubts to creating text. Everything within the chats. Are you looking for more options? ChatGPT joins the party.
Open AI officially brings its ChatGPT to WhatsApp
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There were already ChatGPT-based bots within the messaging app, LuzIA itself is one of them. With the novelty recently presented by Open AI you should no longer trust third-party companies, since ChatGPT arrives as official contact. Everything you talk about in your conversation will stay on the Open AI servers, for better and for worse.
The ChatGPT assistant for WhatsApp is a contact number to talk to just like you would with any of your friends. He converses in a pleasant, quite natural way, he tends to go on too long in his answers (you can limit this length by just asking him) and he suffers from a major problem: Your training lasts until January 2022. Any event after that date is not recognized. And he doesn’t search the Internet either.
ChatGPT is a know-it-all, creative contact, he solves any problem and knows how to talk. The experience with it was very positive, even though it is very far from what Meta AI, the Artificial Intelligence that integrates WhatsApp at a native level, performs (it is not yet in Europe). It is also very far from the ChatGPT app, the messaging chatbot suffers a good number of cuts.
- Training only lasts until January 2022.
- Can’t search the Internet: Any data after the final training date will remain unanswered.
- Can’t make images.
- You can’t add it to groupsonly chat with ChatGPT as a private contact.
- ChatGPT works without an account and you cannot connect it with your user to, for example, take advantage of ChatGPT Plus.
- The model on which it is based is GPT-4. It can’t be changed.
- All data is sent to Open AI servers in the United States. Open AI claims to save messages for an undetermined period of time. Also the user’s phone number.
At a basic level, and as long as you only require text, ChatGPT in WhatsApp works quite well. If you need something advanced, updated answers, or creating images, you should go to the ChatGPT app or the web. The Open AI contact is useful for one thing:
You can use ChatGPT without an Open AI account when you use it within WhatsApp. In Europe this was not available until now
ChatGPT on WhatsApp is fine, but Meta AI is much better
Meta AI contact on WhatsApp
Open AI greatly facilitates access to its tool based on generative Artificial Intelligence, it is very convenient to have it as a WhatsApp contact. For basic use it is enough and there is more than enough, the problem comes when you want to go further. Especially with Meta AI integrated.
WhatsApp AI has more current models, the data is fresh, it supports the creation of images, you will soon be able to talk to it and it does allow its incorporation into WhatsApp groups; although He will only answer whoever asks him. In comparison, ChatGPT falls very short, both in options and in the quality of its results. So, if you already have Meta AI, it doesn’t make much sense to add ChatGPT.
If you don’t have Meta AI on your WhatsApp, adding ChatGPT as a contact is probably worth it. If you have Meta ChatGPT’s AI, it will not give you much
ChatGPT on WhatsApp arrives to facilitate access to AI and to avoid the possible privacy problems presented by other bots based on Open AI models. It is so easy to use that just click on this link to add the contact to your messaging application. It’s worth trying.
Cover image | Ivan Linares
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