Go shopping on the ChatGPT store to customise your chatbot
It took longer than expected. The launch was postponed several times due to force majeure (see the immediate dismissal of Open AI CEO Sam Altam and his equally rapid reinstatement). His arrival was expected by the end of last year but that was not the case. Now we’re finally here. A big round of applause for the official release of the first GPT store by Open AI. Why so much trepidation, you may be wondering, for the debut of a banal virtual store? To be honest, it is not the container that arouses interest, but the content because inside it there is ample space to move the first personalised Chatbots from Mum Open AI.
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For those who don’t know or aren’t entirely sure of their knowledge, let’s briefly define chatbot. The chatbot or chatterbot is software designed to simulate a conversation with a human being and, in fact, constitutes the soul, mind, and body of ChatGPT, fully embodying the potential of artificial intelligence. Now, with the opening of the virtual shop, the possibility of customising and, why not, sharing Chatbot takes shape in an even more organic way.
Looking at it closely, the dazzling Open AI store looks more like a huge directory, an index of contents, than a showcase where you can show off your intangible “products” (mostly apps, as is obvious) that we are usually seen with Apple’s App Store or Android’s Google Play. Here, in the GPT Store, all the GPTs, a now essential nickname, find refuge, which have been modified, educated, and trained and which Open AI subscribers (for 20 dollars a month) can use as they wish.
How to use the GPT store
We started by saying that the new Open AI store is a collection of chatbots that the authors gradually add to it. But how do you create a custom GPT? The process is simple and does not require particular talents or specific knowledge such as for example, programming languages. Let’s see how to do it step by step:
- Login to ChatGPT ;
- Click on Create a GPT: a screen divided into two will open, the construction side of the chatbot and the preview side. This initial phase is critical because it is here that the chatbot is provided with the necessary instructions to make it understand what to do and how to behave;
- Create a chatbot profile picture;
- Go to the Configure tab which is already pre-filled and where you can add some additional information for the correct functioning of the tool;
- the chatbot is ready.
Now that you have your custom GPT you can publish it by following these simple steps:
- Access the ChatGPT home;
- Click on Explore GPTs ;
- Click on My GPTs;.
- Click on the pencil icon to make the changes you deem appropriate;
- Take one last look at the Preview and move on to publication;
- Click Save, set the publishing option to Everyone, and then, finally, select Confirm.
- Your custom GPT is now public, available, and shareable on the Open AI GPT store.
The question that the first authors who have published their personalised GPTs on the store are already asking themselves is: if and how this content will be monetised. There is still a lot of uncertainty on this aspect and we will have to wait for the next few months to fully understand how the Open AI marketplace will develop.
The case
Staying on the topic of AI, creative productions, and chatbots, we want to mention a rather recent fact that seems very emblematic to us. Despite the attempts still underway to regulate the use of tools and software based on artificial intelligence as much as possible, their increasingly widespread use continues to arouse controversy, especially when art is brought into play in whatever form it wishes to express itself. The latest news story that has raised quite a few choruses of disapproval dates back to a few days ago.
The fact is this: a Japanese writer, Rie Kudan, has won one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan, the Akutawaga Prize, for her political fiction novel entitled, Tokyo Sympathy Tower. So far nothing strange, it’s a pity that, after receiving the award, Kudan candidly confessed to having used ChatGPT to write some dialogues in her novel after having trained her chatbot to her liking. Approximately 5% of the book, therefore, would be the result of artificial intelligence.
Obviously, the reactions from the world of literature have been rather clear and some even maintain that the recognition attributed to Kudan is undeserved and, therefore, should be revoked. What will happen now? Will the prize be taken away from her as many have asked, or can we think that the contribution made by AI to the creation of the content does not at all harm the creativity, imagination, and talent of an author but is only technology at the service of writing? The debate is still open and, we are certain, will show no sign of dying out any time soon.
