Snapchat is launching a chatbot based on the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT? According to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, AI chatbots will increasingly become a part of more people’s daily lives.
Snapchat’s chatbot, named “My AI,” will be pinned to the app’s chat tab, above and beyond conversations with friends. the goal is to eventually make the bot available to all of Snapchat’s 750 million monthly users.
At launch, My AI was basically just a quick mobile-friendly version of Snapchat’s ChatGPT. The main difference is that Snap’s version has more restrictions on answering questions, and Snap employees have trained it to adhere to the company’s trust and safety guidelines by not giving answers that include dangerous topics like profanity, violence, pornographic content, or politics.
My AI has also been stripped of features that have gotten ChatGPT banned in some schools, such as the inability to have it write academic papers on a variety of topics.
My AI’s profile page looks just like any other Snapchat user’s profile, albeit with its own alien Bitmoji. this design suggests that My AI is meant to be another friend inside Snapchat, for users to hang out with, rather than a search engine.
