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Post by codethief »

FranklinMaillot wrote: post #253

I've been using the Bing app for my mobile AI needs. It works on Android, has voice input and is allegedly powered by GPT4.

Thanks, I've been looking for an "official" GPT app for Android for ages!

Minor annoyances after trying it out for a few minutes: 1) The app requires you to sign up for conversations longer than 5 exchanges. 2) It disables my keyboard's word suggestions and instead forces its own – English – word suggestions upon me, making it very hard to write in e.g. Spanish. 3) Even typing in English is weirdly difficult – there is some lag and no autocorrection. 4) The text-to-speech and speech-to-text algorithm only supports English.

But hey, better than nothing.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by lstamour »

gnrlst wrote: post #148
aloer wrote: post #121

For people outside the US: use a second apple account with Region set to US. I have used this many times for country specific public transport or delivery apps but same thing works here. You do not lose access to other apps, sync features or subscriptions. Go into the App Store app, not your phone settings, click your profile and scroll all the way down to log out. Then log in with a US account, download the app and…

do updates work if i switch back to my original account?

Yes they work but you will be prompted to sign in with the account that bought the app by entering its password. Auto-updates sometimes work but only if you’ve entered the password for the account recently. Some work was done around iOS … 14 maybe? to try and improve this experience, but iOS is still not fully multi-account. And strange things sometimes happen to DRM content, in-app purchases and music libraries.

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Post by lstamour »

exitb wrote: post #30
rohitpaulk wrote: post #10

Only available in the US at the moment.

I wonder what’s the reasoning behind limiting availability of an app for a product that’s already widely available.

Legal, translation and limiting demand to a reasonable level with rolling release to other markets in future?

That said, I also find it somewhat unfair, as likely does anyone not in the US :)

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by johnmcd3 »

extr wrote: post #159

GPT-4 works great, super impressive, but I am significantly less impressed by OpenAI as a business. I'm still locked out of creating a work account because I used up the two accounts-per-phone number limit that they have hardcoded (with no way to free up one of those slots by deleting an account) and can't create a new account. Dozens of posts on their support forum about the same thing, basically impossible to get a…

Had the same experience. The solution is just to use a family member's phone number.

The phone number isn't ever used again and is just used to limit automated signups as far as I can tell.

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Post by NikolaNovak »

zamnos wrote: post #266
NikolaNovak wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I didn't mean to start an iPhone rant, but if we're going there... * Let me put the icon where I want it. seriously. if my OCD wants this icon on bottom right of my screen, let me! * Let me have an icon in multiple places. if my OCD wants this app in both "Media" and "Entertainment" folder, let me! * Allow me to put stuff onto the phone. Via USB. Like every other god damn device in the world. * Allow me to take s…

Not to get in the way of a good rant, but https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJYT2AM/A/lightning-to-sd... lets me copy photos to the phone just fine.

In which way does that allow me to move the files from computer to phone viabusb phone like every other device in the world?

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Post by moneywoes »

valgaze wrote: post #45
minimaxir wrote: post #4

This release is more relevant as there have been very many fake ChatGPT apps that leveraged OpenAI's branding. Case in point, the App Store release app subtitle is "The official app by OpenAI"

Can't find the chart, but several of those wrapper apps made $1MMs in revenue too https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fake-chatgpt-apps-raking-tho... The Chart: https://i.imgur.com/IYC0Pcb.png

Did they ask for api keys? If not wouldn’t that cost a lot to profess requests

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Post by behnamoh »

jeroenhd wrote: post #325
nicenewtemp84 wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a famous app for cars on Android called Torque. I accidentally told an average apple user to download it to head his OBD2 codes. 4 fake app downloads later he gave up and said "this is why I stick to apple apps" Lol what

If you just wait for Apple to copy their competition and give the apps away for free, you don't need to deal with the spammy app store!

Can’t argue with that. Given enough time, Apple solves everything!

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by wkat4242 »

qumpis wrote: post #305
wkat4242 wrote: post #177

I'd be worried downloading it because there's so many fake spyware ChatGPT apps in the store. But I have Android anyway.. Hopefully that will come too!

What does spyware mean in this context? Some phishing-like cover websites prompting users to input their credentials of openai? Apart from that, I thought Apple handled permission handling well?

I don't know exactly, I have not come across any myself.

But I heard it's a thing (probably read about it here): https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chatgpt-is-now-being-used-by-...

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Post by FranklinMaillot »

codethief wrote: post #331
FranklinMaillot wrote: post #253

I've been using the Bing app for my mobile AI needs. It works on Android, has voice input and is allegedly powered by GPT4.

Thanks, I've been looking for an "official" GPT app for Android for ages! Minor annoyances after trying it out for a few minutes: 1) The app requires you to sign up for conversations longer than 5 exchanges. 2) It disables my keyboard's word suggestions and instead forces its own – English – word suggestions upon me, making it very hard to write in e.g. Spanish. 3) Even typing in English is weirdly difficult – there…

Strange, I don't experience the issues you describe. I can type like in any other app, with keyboard suggestions, even in French.
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