Now you can use ChatGPT without an account

OpenAI does away with mandatory account registration, opening up ChatGPT to all users. However, registration will still be necessary, for example, for DALLE-3, the use of which is still chargeable. "We're rolling this out gradually with the goal of making AI accessible to anyone interested in its capabilities,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post.

Since ChatGPT was first introduced in late 2022, interested users have been required to log into an OpenAI account. The chatbot has proven extremely popular and ChatGPT has become one of the fastest growing services ever. The company then added paid subscriptions to access other products, such as the DALL-E 3 and more advanced models. Users will thus still need an account to store and view chat history, chat sharing, and voice conversations.

OpenAI reports that over 100 million people in 185 countries use ChatGPT weekly. Web traffic tracker SimilarWeb, however, announced that ChatGPT, with an estimated 1.6 billion visitors in February, remains the most visited chatbot, although Google's Gemini is also slowly gaining momentum. However, ChatGPT's traffic has declined slightly from the highs reached in May 2023, when the estimated number of visits exceeded 1.8 billion.

OpenAI adds that it has implemented "additional content management safeguards," including blocking solicitations in a wider range of categories. It is not yet clear what exactly these categories are. However, there will still be an option to opt out of model training – so ChatGPT users can choose whether their activity can be used to train OpenAI models.

Meanwhile, other OpenAI products, such as the newly announced AI voice cloning service Voice Engine and video creation platform Sora, remain available only to a limited number of users and partners and are not part of the benefits of an OpenAI account.