Beware: OpenAI is going after the global engagement-economy

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The GPT Store is available to OpenAIs enterprise customers and anyone who pays $20 a month to use ChatGPT Plus, offering a selection of specialized versions of the tool for research, education, design, etc, that are created by third-party developers..

But OpenAIs store is similar to Facebook in a more disturbing way too: It has an engagement-based revenue structure..

Builders will be paid based on user engagement with their GPTs," OpenAI has said, which means that the more popular and potentially addictive a GPT service is, the more money its developers can make..

YouTubes model has led creators to focus on sensational or controversial content to drive views, motivating influencers to post provocative videos, while news sites have gravitated towards click-bait headlines, many of them focused on trending topics, instead of in-depth journalism..

Based on a cursory search of whats currently available, dozens of developers have already submitted girlfriend bots to OpenAIs store..