Taking advantage of the popularity of ChatGPT, scammers are already pointing the tip of their nose. Clone apps quickly flourished on the App Store and Google Play Store. You obviously have to be wary of them, as they have been designed to suck up your data and make you pay colossal sums.
Malicious uses of OpenAI’s chatbot soon emerged. While hackers are already using ChatGPT to carry out their attacks, fake apps are trying to scam users. This is particularly the case of ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3, a copy accessible on the App Store against a very expensive subscription. And it’s far from the only fraudulent app on the two biggest app stores.
As Top10VPN reveals, there are a whole bunch of them on the App Store and Google Play Store. While there is no official ChatGPT mobile app yet (only a web version is available), developers have flooded app stores with their cloned apps in order to suck up your data.
What are some fake ChatGPT apps to avoid at all costs?
On Android:
- AI Chat Companion
- ChatGPT 3: CjatGPT AI
- Talk GPT – Talk to ChatGPT
- ChatGPT AI Writing Assistant
- Open Chat – AI Chatbot App
On iOS:
- Open Chat – AI Chatbot
- Wisdom AI – Your AI Assistant
- Chat AI: Personal AI Assistant
- Alfred – Chat with GPT 3
- TalkGPT – Talk to ChatGPT
- Write For Me GPT AI Assistant
- Genie – GPT AI Assistant
ChatGPT Cloned Apps Harm Your Privacy and Wallet
After a series of in-depth analyzes of the most popular apps based on ChatGPT-3, Top10VPN came to the following conclusion: “What we found were a handful of filthy, spurious apps that added no value for users and instead intruded on their privacy to profit from their data.” The ChatGPT AI Writing Assistant app shares your location data with ByteDance, Amazon, Appodeal, and InMobi, among others.
The platform also criticizes the indecent billing required by certain applications for a free service: “One app charges $290 per week, which equates to over $15,000 per year”, she laments. As a reminder, ChatGPT is a totally free tool. OpenAI certainly offers a subscription at $20 per month which offers some advantages (priority access, better responsiveness, testing of new functions).
Here, jumbled up, are the different ways these scam apps infringe on your privacy.
- Intrusive collection of personal data.
- Sharing your IP address.
- Authorization request to record audio when voice functions are inaccessible in the app.
- Access without authorization to geolocation, camera, photos and videos and device storage.
- Recording of requests and responses.
- Identification of the device by third-party trackers.
Source : Top10VPN
