Good news for artificial intelligence lovers! ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI, will no longer require you to log in with an account to use it. However, this only applies to ChatGPT, as other OpenAI products, such as DALL-E 3, will still require an account to access them. Additionally, users will need an account to save and review chat history, share chats, and have voice conversations.
“Starting today, you can use ChatGPT instantly, without the need to register,” says OpenAI in a blog post. “We are doing it gradually, with the goal of making AI accessible to anyone who is curious about its possibilities.”
Users interested in ChatGPT had to create an account to be able to use the chatbot, which was launched in late 2022. With an increasing popularity, ChatGPT ended up becoming one of the fastest-growing services in history, even introducing paid subscriptions to access other products like DALL-E 3 and more advanced models.
More than 100 million people from 185 countries use ChatGPT weekly, according to OpenAI. SimilarWeb, a web traffic tracker, found that ChatGPT remains the most visited AI chatbot, with an estimated 1.6 billion visits in February, despite Google Gemini starting to gain some momentum. However, its traffic has slightly declined since reaching its peak in May 2023, when the estimated number of visits exceeded 1.8 billion.
OpenAI claims to have introduced “additional content safeguards for this experience,” including blocking prompts in a wider range of categories, but has not provided further details on what these categories are. The option to opt out of model training will still be available, even for those without an account (ChatGPT users can choose whether their activity in ChatGPT can be used to train OpenAI’s AI models).
