World-Shaking ChatGPT Tech — Now a $16/Month Commodity
ChatGPT tech — the auto-writing wunderkind that has turned the world on its ear with its stunning text-generation abilities — is already a commodity.
Writesonic — which offers an autowriter that runs on ChatGPT tech — is now offering unlimited use of the basic version of the tool for $16/month.
Like many AI writing firms, Writesonic licenses the basic version of ChatGPT from the software’s maker, OpenAI.
And also like many other firms that license basic ChatGPT, Writesonic dresses-up the software a bit by adding its own user interface.
Plus, Writesonic adds additional perks and tools, which make it easier to work with the groundbreaking software — also a common practice by many other firms that license ChatGPT.
Nearly a billion people have tried out the basic version of ChatGPT at OpenAI’s Web site since its debut November 30 of last year.
But as free users, they often have to ‘wait their turn’ for a crack at the software.
And they’re also sometimes booted-off the site after using ChatGPT for free for awhile.
Undoutedly, Writesonic’s decision to ‘mark-down’ basic ChatGPT is going to be a head-turner for bargain hunters.
But it’s also especially significant given that just a few months ago, untold numbers of people were paying hundreds of dollars-a-month to get that same kind of high-volume access to ChatGPT basic from AI writing service providers like Jasper.
Equally remarkable: Writesonic’s ‘bargain basement’ version of ChatGPT — which runs on the GPT-3.5 autowriting engine — also includes a free, AI-powered image-generator.
And the $16/month price also features 100+ pre-fabricated templates that make it easier to auto-write emails, blog posts, ads — and virtually every other format of writing you can imagine.
Those perks are not offered by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.
Granted, a $20/month subscription does get you access to basic ChatGPT directly from OpenAI.
But that deal comes with no ‘perks,’ other than extremely limited use of ChatGPT running on GPT-4 — OpenAI’s most advanced autowriting engine.
Apparently, with its move to become a ChatGPT-for-less service provider, Writesonic has concluded that even as much of the world remains dazed at ChatGPT’s capabilities, the only way the AI tool can retain its dazzle is to start a good, old-fashioned price war.
Essentially: During the past six months, we’ve gone from ‘Check-out this new, mind-blowing technology that will forever change the world as we know it’ to, ‘Hey, look what I’ve got in my discount bin.’
We live in amazing times.
In other analysis of AI-generated writing news:
*In-Depth Guide: Can’t Forget This! ChatGPT Competitor Claude2’s Unprecedented Memory Leaves Rivals Panting: Writers and others looking for a ChatGPT competitor that can hold texts as long as 75,000 words in memory will want to take a close look at Claude2.
Released by Anthropic — a rival to OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT — Claude2’s formidable memory enables users to work with a book-length text that can be:
*Auto-summarized
*Queried for analysis based on what’s featured in that text
*Prompted to auto-generate articles and blog posts based on that text
*Triggered to engage in similar auto-writing
The 75,000 words that Claude2 can retain in its memory is about the length of a typical novel.
In contrast, ChatGPT can only retain about 3,000 words in memory.
Observes Bret Kinsella: “The large context window also is beneficial if you have a lengthy interaction with Claude.
“It will remember the earlier parts of your chat — and keep that context in subsequent responses.”
For a great shoot-out review that pits Claude2 against top competitors ChatGPT and Google Bard, check-out this piece in Decrypt.
You can also play with the experimental Claude2 for free at its Web site.
*Beauty, Brains and AI: Virtual Newswoman Takes on Quaint Humans: India Today has rolled-out its first AI-generated news anchor, named Sana.
Fed by text-to-speech news stories, the photo-realistic, animated virtual newswoman is being pitched by the news outlet as ‘bright, gorgeous, ageless and tireless.’
Sana — and the growing number of virtual AI anchors like her — will be tough competitors against their human predecessors.
Unfortunately, those mere flesh-bags are unable to relentlessly deliver breaking news, 24/7.
*Gizmodo’s Writing Staff to AI: ‘Go Program Yourself!:’ The decision by tech pub Gizmodo to start running stories auto-generated by AI has triggered an angry backlash from its human editorial staff.
Observes writer Wes Davis: “Internal reaction to Gizmodo’s first chatbot-created story– a chronological list of Star Wars movies that wasn’t chronological — wasn’t exactly enthusiastic, with journalists reportedly writing in Slack that it was ‘actively hurting our reputations and credibility.’
“Gizmodo Deputy Editor James Whitbrook told the Post in an interview that he’d never dealt with ‘this basic level of incompetence with any of the colleagues that I have ever worked with.'”
Whitbrook added that “the chatbot’s seeming inability to even put Star Wars movies in the right order meant it couldn’t be trusted to report anything accurately.”
To be fair, AI writers are quite capable of auto-generating an unending barrage of error-free stories — when operated with the right expertise and oversight.
*For WordPress Users: Fifty Shades of AI Writing Automation: Top AI Tools reports there are now at least 50 AI-automation tools specially designed to work easily with WordPress.
Among the most unusual:
~ RankPress.io, an AI-powered auto-blogging platform that uses ChatGPT to scrape Google snippets and PAA questions and answers to create unique WordPress AI auto-blogs
~WPGPT, a plugin that enables users to create and customize their own AI-powered chat for a WordPress Web site
~Kardown, an auto-blog post creator that also auto-creates images for the post and optimizes the post for SEO
*When Data Talks Back: ‘Chatting’ With Your Business Data, Made Simple: Databricks has released a new AI chatbot — dubbed LakehouseIQ — that you feed with your propriety business data to auto-generate reports and analysis.
Observes writer Aaron Heienicle: “LakehouseIQ leverages the power of AI to enable users to ask natural language questions without the need for writing code.
“Behind the scenes, an intelligent AI system interprets the query, retrieves the relevant data, reads and analyzes it and produces meaningful answers.
“This groundbreaking approach eliminates the need for specialized technical knowledge, democratizing data analysis and making it accessible to a wider range of users within an organization.”
*Salesforce Gets an AI Writing Make-Over: Like many software titans, Salesforce has jumped into automated writing with both feet.
Key among its new AI writing tools is Sales GPT, designed to auto-generate customer emails, call summaries, account research and more.
A companion tool, ServiceGPT, is designed to auto-summarize customer interactions into easy-to-access knowledge articles for field service agents who deal directly with customers.
*ChatGPT: Lazier and Dumber?: A number of avid users of ChatGPT’s most advanced auto-writing engine — GPT-4 — complain that text produced by the engine is getting lazier and dumber.
Observes writer Alistair Barr: “Users vented their frustrations on Twitter and OpenAI’s online developer forum about issues such as weakened logic, more erroneous responses, losing track of provided information, trouble following instructions, forgetting to add brackets in basic software code and only remembering the most recent prompt.”
Peter Welinder, VP product, OpenAI, — the maker of ChatGPT — insists GPT-4’s performance has not been downgraded: “No, we haven’t made GPT-4 dumber.
“Quite the opposite: we make each new version smarter than the previous one.”
*ChatGPT’s Secret Recipe: Allegedly, Your Data: The hundreds of millions of Web users who have posted their writing on the Web and social media are due compensation from OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT — according to a new class-action lawsuit.
Also targeted in the lawsuit is Microsoft, which has funded OpenAI over the past few years to the tune of $12 billion+.
Observes writer Matthew Field: “The legal claim alleges OpenAI — which built the digital chatbot — and investor Microsoft, developed the artificial intelligence tools by ‘secret scraping of the Internet.'”
Big Picture AI: Professors Are So Yesterday — Harvard’s Newest Instructor is an AI Chatbot: Students taking an ‘Intro to Computer Science’ course at Harvard in September will have a chatbot similar to ChatGPT as their teacher.
Says David Malan, a professor who has taught the course at Harvard, coded as ‘CS50:’ “Our own hope is that, through AI, we can eventually approximate a one-to-one teacher/student ratio for every student in CS50, as by providing them with software-based tools that, 24/7, can support their learning at a pace and in a style that works best for them individually.”
In the olden days, it was called ‘phoning-it-in.’
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.