GPT Store is online! No threshold to earn money, no threshold to plagiarize

Early this morning, OpenAI’s GPT Store went live! Over 3 million GPTs have been created by users in the past two months, and this release is aimed at ChatGPT Plus, team, and enterprise users.

Money-making tips?

I don’t think I need to tell you much about the GPT Store, which is primarily used to share user-built custom GPT assistants that developers can use to make money. Building GPTs is easy and requires no coding skills:

1. Create an OpenAI account, log in, and access the GPT Builder;
2. Choose a problem that you want to solve in your daily life or at work, preferably one that is bothering other people as well;
3. Customize the GPT with an appropriate name, photo, and description, and define the actions it should perform with natural language prompt words. Most importantly, assign it high-quality, unique and reliable data sources from which the model can extract relevant information;
4. Keep learning and tweaking until the model is able to output results that match expectations;
5. Validate your builder profile (Settings → Builder Profile → Enable your name or a verified website);
6. Saving and publicizing your GPT for everyone to use (sharing the link prevents it from showing up in the store).

However, OpenAI has not provided specific guidelines for how much passive revenue developers can expect to earn once the store goes live, and it’s not clear what percentage of the profits OpenAI will take. It’s worth noting that the GPT Store is currently only available to paid subscribers.

Tip from the webmaster: The GPT Store is likely to be flooded with hundreds of developer subscribers in a short period of time to quickly capture GPT market share. So think outside the box and consider what you can do for them beyond selling GPTs directly.

Additionally, OpenAI has released a new self-service program, ChatGPT Team, which allows teams to access GPT-4 through a 32K context window, have higher message caps for DALL-E 3, GPT-4, etc., create and share GPTs, and more.

Netizens: put it out to be copied in minutes

Given that developers have been using it for two months now, the GPT Store model is starting to reveal some problems.

Someone on the OpenAI developer forums posted that a site is stealing and copying our GPTs, how can we protect our GPTs?According to the poster, the site lists a number of GPTs, and it looks like they’re copying other people’s GPTs and listing them as their own.

“It looks like GPT will not be able to fulfill their promises — just like the plugin failed. We will have a huge number of GPTs, but no one will use them, especially when they can be copied so easily from other GPTs.” A netizen followed up.

The press commented that GPTs are not currently stand-alone applications and are therefore unlikely to generate a stand-alone business, and that while OpenAl offers what it calls an Assistants API for building native platforms and web applications outside of the OpenAl website, the GPT Store store appears to be a dine-in experience, with no “dine-in” experience at the moment. “There is no “take-out” option.