ChatGPT clone apps are spreading on Android and iOS to steal user data. Tens of thousands of downloads have already been recorded.
In recent days, several ChatGPT clone apps have surfaced on Google and Apple stores, i.e. App Store and Play Store. If it were to be expected, given the rather exceptional enthusiasm for artificial intelligence software. The impact of these malicious clones on users is quite significant, since the Top10VPN platform speaks of more than 100,000 downloads on Android devices alone.
Tools that you come across by simply searching for “ChatGPT”
If, for the moment, there is no ChatGPT application that can be downloaded directly from the Google and Apple stores, this does not prevent hackers from playing on the lack of suspicion of users and offering downloading unofficial clones of the now famous chatbot powered by OpenAI. These bogus applications are very easy to find, with a simple “ChatGPT” request.
Top10VPN researchers analyzed the top 10 ChatGPT-related apps on both stores. Most of these apps do rely on ChatGPT-3 technology. Cyber specialists then used open source tools to examine network traffic and detect risky features that might have been inserted into the code of these applications. They also closely studied the privacy policies of these cloned apps to learn more about data collection.
Android apps that access your critical features without your permission
During their work, the researchers learned, for example, that 2 of the Android applications collected users’ IP addresses to share them with third parties. Another app, ChatGPT AI Writing Assistant, already has over 100,000 downloads. You will take a look at the opinions left by users if you have time to kill, you will see that it is not sad. The problem is that the application shares the geolocation data of its users with players like… ByteDance or Amazon.
3 other applications ask users for access to audio files, while all the cloning applications studied include a code that directly affects the privacy of mobile users. Without having given their authorization, they nevertheless see these apps having access to geolocation, the camera, photos and videos as well as the internal storage of their mobile or tablet.
9 applications directly exploit the GPT-3 technology, which, with people who are not very observant, gives them a certain credit. Three other tools even go so far as to offer a paid model to use a version of the AI that is… free. Among the applications not to install, here are some of them:
- ChatGPT 3: CjatGPT AI
- AI Chat Companion
- ChatGPT AI Writing Assistant
- Open Chat – AI Chatbot App
- Talk GPT – Talk to ChatGPT
On iOS, ChatGPT apps that charge access to… $15,000
On iOS this time, cyber experts have discovered 5 apps hiding third-party trackers on fingerprint-operated devices. Over 300 server requests were initiated in just 4 minutes by a single app, Top10VPN reports.
7 applications did not follow the best data collection practices of the Apple store, and 9 others exploited, as on Android, OpenAI’s GPT-3 technology. Even more fanciful, 8 apps charged up to $15,000 per year for simple access. Here are some malicious iOS apps that we advise against installing:
- Open Chat – AI Chatbot
- Wisdom AI – Your AI Assistant
- Alfred – Chat with GPT 3
- Write For Me GPT AI Assistant
- Genie – GPT AI Assistant
- Chat AI: Personal AI Assistant
- TalkGPT – Talk to ChatGPT
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- Chat in different languages, including French
- Contextual understanding
ChatGPT is a conversational agent that uses the GPT-3 language model to interpret human text and generate precise and intelligible answers, in French and in English. However, his knowledge is limited to all events preceding the year 2021.
ChatGPT is a conversational agent that uses the GPT-3 language model to interpret human text and generate precise and intelligible answers, in French and in English. However, his knowledge is limited to all events preceding the year 2021.
Source : Top10VPN
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