OpenAI recently announced that users can now freely access and utilize ChatGPT without the need for an account.

This change allows for easier and more convenient use of their popular AI conversation platform. Nevertheless, this generosity only applies to ChatGPT.

For other OpenAI products like DALL-E 3, an account will still be required for access. This highlights the company’s dedication to making AI available to everyone while still maintaining the value of their premium offerings.

“We are gradually introducing this, with the goal of making AI accessible to anyone interested in its capabilities,” OpenAI stated in a recent blog post, emphasizing their commitment to expanding access to AI technologies.

Ever since its introduction in late 2022, ChatGPT has garnered immense popularity worldwide, prompting users to create an OpenAI account. The incredible popularity of ChatGPT has propelled it to become one of the fastest-growing services in history.

Later on, OpenAI decided to offer a subscription-based option for accessing premium products like DALL-E 3 and advanced models. However, users still needed an account to use features like saving chat history, sharing conversations, and engaging in voice interactions.

OpenAI revealed that ChatGPT has an impressive weekly user base of over 100 million people in 185 countries. Despite facing increasing competition from Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT continues to be the most popular AI chatbot site, attracting an estimated 1.6 billion visitors in February.

Although there has been a slight decline from the peak in May 2023, when visits surged to over 1.8 billion, ChatGPT remains unrivaled.

Alongside this announcement, OpenAI also introduced “additional content safeguards for this experience.” These safeguards are designed to limit prompts in a wider range of categories, although the specific details of these categories were not disclosed.

It’s worth mentioning that users, even those without accounts, have the ability to opt out of model training. This gives ChatGPT users the power to control how their interactions are used to improve OpenAI’s AI models.