ChatGPT Reaches 100 Million Users Amidst 2023 Legal and Leadership Turmoil
OpenAI's ChatGPT experiences massive growth and major feature updates in 2023, despite facing a high-profile CEO firing and a major copyright lawsuit from The New York Times.
ChatGPT reaches a massive milestone of 100 million weekly active users as OpenAI heavily invests in the AI chatbot throughout 2023. At the company's first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, the organization unveils GPT-4 Turbo, a multimodal API, the custom GPT Store, and the upgraded DALL-E 3 text-to-image tool.
The year ends on a turbulent note as OpenAI faces sudden leadership chaos when the board briefly fires CEO and co-founder Sam Altman before swiftly reinstating him. This internal disruption raises industry concerns about the company's future direction and creates opportunities for competitors in the rapidly evolving AI market.
As the year closes, legal troubles emerge as The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement, claiming millions of articles train AI models without consent. Additionally, new research highlights that while the tool boosts productivity for creative tasks, it leads to more mistakes during analytical work among white-collar professionals.