OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Plus, a Paid Subscription Plan, Starting at $20 per Month

The owner of ChatGPT OpenAI said on Wednesday that it is introducing a $20  per month test subscription plan for its well-known AI-powered chatbot, named ChatGPT Plus.

Subscribers will have priority access to new features and enhancements, access to ChatGPT during peak hours, and quicker responses.

The business announced ChatGPT Plus, which will initially be available solely to consumers in the United States, in a blog post published by OpenAI on Wednesday. The corporation will likely over the next few weeks increase access availability by inviting customers on its waitlist. In the near future, OpenAI will expand the availability of ChatGPT to new locations.

Users of ChatGPT Plus will enjoy a number of advantages, such as normal platform access during times of high traffic, speedier response times, and priority access to new features and upgrades. The business will continue to offer its users free access up until the subscription model is expanded to new locations.

On Wednesday, OpenAI also unveiled a piece of software for identifying text produced by AI. Since its release in November, ChatGPT, a free tool that generates writing in response to a prompt, has been quite popular, raising questions about copyright and plagiarism. This material can include articles, essays, jokes, and even poetry.

The AI classifier, a language model trained on a dataset of pairs of texts on the same subject produced by humans and by AI, tries to identify texts created by AI. The company said that it employs a range of suppliers to solve problems like automated disinformation campaigns and academic dishonesty.

OpenAI notes that the detection tool is very unreliable for texts under 1,000 characters and that AI-written material can be altered to deceive the classifier in its open beta version.

Some of the biggest US school districts, including New York City, have banned ChatGPT since it launched in November and amassed widespread popularity among millions of users due to worries that kids will use the text generator to cheat or plagiarize.

GPTZeroX and other third-party detection programs have been developed to assist schools in spotting AI-generated writing.

In addition to working on the detection of AI-generated language, OpenAI said it is talking with educators about ChatGPT’s strengths and weaknesses.