ChatGPT hype encourages fake apps trying to cash in: Here’s what to keep in mind

ChatGPT quickly grew to become one of the biggest tech buzzwords post its launch in November last year, thanks to its ability to generate incredibly convincing human-like responses to people’s queries. Of course, whenever something achieves such popularity levels, people immediately start thinking of ways to cash in on it. So it is not surprising that a number of fake apps based have begun popping up across App Store and Play Store, defrauding people by charging for an otherwise free product.

If you search on the Play Store for ChatGPT, a number of results pop up.