Snap is rolling out an OpenAI-powered AI chatbot to users of its Snapchat subscription service.
The experimental "My AI" feature is described as a more restricted version of ChatGPT located within Snapchat.
Snap said the GPT-powered chatbot is customized to generate text specifically for Snapchat, with a "unique tone and personality" geared toward the platform's values on "friendship, learning, and fun."
- The AI service can "recommend birthday gift ideas for your BFF, plan a hiking trip for a long weekend, suggest a recipe for dinner, or even write a haiku about cheese for your cheddar-obsessed pal," it said.
- The feature was trained to avoid biases or harmful responses. However, Snap warned that the bot still has "many deficiencies," including a proneness toward AI "hallucinations" and the ability to be "tricked into saying just about anything."
- My AI is rolling out this week to subscribers of the $3.99-per-month Snapchat Plus service.
- Snapchat says it could eventually launch the bot to all of its 750 million monthly users.
