Snapchat launches ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot
Snapchat announced today that it is rolling out a new chatbot feature powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT to all Snapchat users. The chatbot will provide automated responses to users and engage in conversational interactions.
Snapchat has been testing the chatbot over the last few months and is now making it available to all users in the latest update of the Snapchat app. The chatbot uses OpenAI's conversational AI model, ChatGPT, which has been trained on a large dataset of human conversations.
ChatGPT allows the Snapchat chatbot to understand natural language, engage in complex dialogues, and generate coherent and contextually relevant responses.
The goal of the Snapchat chatbot is to provide an engaging experience for users and also help enhance certain features like Snapchat's "Visual Search" augmented reality tool.
The chatbot can provide information and recommendations for locations, events, products, and more based on a user's queries and interactions. Snapchat sees conversational AI as a key interface of the future and an opportunity to build more useful tools and experiences.
However, some industry observers worry that the public release of generative AI models like ChatGPT, which can conduct open-domain conversations, may lead to issues like the spread of misinformation.
Snapchat says they have put various safeguards and filters in place to prevent inappropriate responses, but AI experts argue that fully mitigating these risks will be challenging.
The new chatbot feature is launching globally to all Snapchat users with the latest version of the app. Snapchat is planning to continue improving the chatbot's capabilities over time based on user feedback and interactions.