GPT App Store is officially launched: it is easy to use, but the ecology is very chaotic, and some people are still swiping the list

A while ago, ChatGPT's official app store, the GPTs Store, finally went live.

Although it has been postponed for nearly two months because of OpenAI's internal "Gong Dou", the popularity of GPTs Store has not gone down during this time.

This time it was officially opened, and the officials and developers have uploaded a total of more than 3 million apps in the GPTs Store, which can be said to be a very large number.

This time, OpenAI's newly released content has a test function in addition to the GPTs Store. This feature allows your GPT to be personalized and learns based on the context of the conversation, so everyone has their own GPT.

At the same time, OpenAI has also launched the ChatGPT Team plan, which can be used by teams of more than two people for $30 per person per month and $5 discount if paid annually.

The latter two changes are not particularly big for the time being, so today, we will mainly focus on the most important GPTs Store.

To use, as long as you click "Explore GPTs" on the ChatGPT page, you can directly enter the GPTs Store.

However, it is worth noting that although OpenAI officially said that the GPTs Store is open to all Plus users, the editorial department found that there are still accounts that are still stuck in the old interface and do not have an entrance to the GPTs Store when they first tested it.

In terms of the page design of the store, GPTs Store still continues the minimalist style of OpenAI as always.

Through the search box at the top, you can directly find the relevant GPT app, and you no longer need to share it through links as before.

In order to prevent you from knowing what to use, the official has launched a popular recommendation, with three sections: Featured Weekly, Trending and By ChatGPT, each of which has recommended apps.

In addition, the store has seven subdivisions, such as writing, productivity, programming, lifestyle, and so on.

At first glance, it really feels like you're visiting the App Store.

This time, we also selected a few practical small programs from them to see if they can help our daily work with just the small programs in the store.

First, we tried Consensus, the second-highest ranking company on the list, which claims to include the results of 200 million academic papers, which is equivalent to an AI academic assistant that is very professional in answering scientific questions.

We asked him why he couldn't drink alcohol after eating cephalosporin, and he replied as follows:

Consensus not only answers questions in seconds, but also lists relevant citations that support the idea, giving the answer more credibility. If you use it as an efficiency tool for writing papers, then it should save you a lot of time, which is a powerful tool for scientific research.

In terms of productivity tools, there's also a tool called AlphaNotes GPT, which, as the name suggests, can help you distill lengthy videos and long articles to the main points. Analysis, introduction, main points, arguments, background, etc. are all available.

However, this tool is very similar to the AI video summary assistant that is more common in the comment area of station B, and it will not give people a sense of novelty when it looks at it.

So, let's take a look at an even more interesting one, which is also on the list of recommendations, is an icon design tool called Logo Creator.

We tried to make it an icon for the Year of the Dragon, and instead of rushing to draw it first, it asked for the needs first, such as the choice of style:

It also asked about complexity, whether we needed text, and finally, whether we needed an icon, a letter logo, a mascot logo, or a badge.

Once we had all the selections, Logo Creator designed the icons according to our needs.

This effect is still good, if the requirements are not very high, it is no problem to use it directly.

Overall, compared with the previous beta version, the GPTs officially launched this time have a larger number of GPTs and a more diverse type.

Of course, GPTs Store can do this mainly because it lowers the threshold for GPT application development, allowing users and developers to seamlessly switch between their identities.

For example, now we can refine a GPT in GPT Builder, and it can also be listed in the store, as long as the refined GPT is set to be visible to everyone.

The certification process is also relatively simple, just fill in a name or a website.

At the same time, the fact that "everyone can use the GPTs store to make money" mentioned by Ultraman at the last OpenAI developer conference is also eyebrow-raising.

According to the latest official statement, they are preparing to launch the first developer revenue plan in the first quarter of this year, starting with developers in the United States.

How much money they can make depends entirely on how users use it.

In this way, in addition to startups and indie developers who have some development experience, people who have not learned to code can now have multiple ways to make money.

However, the impact of the low barrier to entry for GPTs development is not all beneficial.

For example, if you search for "translation" in the search bar, you can jump up a lot of related translation GPTs, and the same is true for other types of GPTs.

At the same time, the management of GPTs Store is still very, very chaotic for the time being, and it doesn't even care about duplicate name plagiarism.

For example, on the immediate, some bloggers shared their experiences of plagiarism in GPTs:

In the GPTs Store, the bridge between the real and fake Monkey King is also outrageous, and an app can search for a bunch of pictures with the same name and avatar:

Perhaps, you said that you can tell by the number of evaluations. But what if this data can be manipulated?

Where there is a list, there is data fraud, and now the ecology of GPTs Store has been so chaotic that some people are ready to take advantage of loopholes to plan for mutual assistance to brush the list:

We believe that OpenAI must pay attention to the GPTs Store ecosystem, but judging from the current situation, the entire app store is still very chaotic.

Overall, GPTs Store is still very useful, but it will take some time to build and maintain the ecosystem.

We believe that this time will not be slow, and 2024 will definitely be the year of the blowout of large model applications. Those big companies that are one step behind OpenAI in the field of large models, after a year of rolling up models, it is time to focus on the application layer.

After all, no matter how well the model is developed, without ecology and application, the final outcome is mostly extinction.