Watch out for fake ChatGPT apps!

Beware of apps that copy the concept of ChatGPT. — Photography Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock/AFP Relaxnews

Following the success of ChatGPT, many dubious mobile applications are springing up in the App Store and on Google Play, often built to collect data without users' knowledge.

While OpenAI, the publisher of ChatGPT, is planning to launch a mobile application of its now unavoidable AI chatbot, others have gotten there first, already offering alternatives in the form of clone apps offering varying degrees of seriousness and security. The Top10VPN website has listed 10 of them, called TalkGPT, Open Chat, Chatteo or Chat GPT AI on Android, or Chat w. GPT AI, Alfred-Chat with GPT 3 and Wiz AI Chat Bot Writing Helper on iOS.