{"id":155191,"date":"2023-01-11T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/openai-begins-piloting-chatgpt-professional-a-premium-version-of-its-viral-chatbot"},"modified":"2023-01-11T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:27:16","slug":"openai-begins-piloting-chatgpt-professional-a-premium-version-of-its-viral-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/openai-begins-piloting-chatgpt-professional-a-premium-version-of-its-viral-chatbot","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-begins-piloting-chatgpt-professional-a-premium-version-of-its-viral-chatbot3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI this week signaled it\u2019ll soon begin charging for <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/chatgpt\/\">ChatGPT<\/a>, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code. In an announcement on the company\u2019s official Discord server, OpenAI said that it\u2019s \u201cstarting to think about how to monetize ChatGPT\u201d as one of the ways to \u201censure [the tool\u2019s] long-term viability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The monetized version of ChatGPT will be called ChatGPT Professional, apparently. That\u2019s according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScwuQEWBkxsNftEkvUgFx2Ov7pKcrOx8IUlZ241lvet7ziXCQ\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waitlist<\/a> link OpenAI posted in the Discord server, which asks a range of questions about payment preferences including \u201cAt what price (per month) would you consider ChatGPT to be so expensive that you would not consider buying it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The waitlist also outlines ChatGPT Professional\u2019s benefits, which include no \u201cblackout\u201d (i.e. unavailability) windows, no throttling and an unlimited number of message with ChatGPT \u2014 \u201cat least 2x the regular daily limit.\u201d OpenAI says that those who fill out the waitlist form may be selected to pilot ChatGPT Professional, but that the program is in the experimental stages and won\u2019t be made widely available \u201cat this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI this week signaled it\u2019ll soon begin charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code. In an announcement on the company\u2019s official Discord server, OpenAI said that it\u2019s \u201cstarting to think about how to monetize ChatGPT\u201d as one of the ways to \u201censure [the tool\u2019s] long-term [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}