Snapchat adds OpenAI-powered chatbot and proactively apologizes for what it might say

Snap announced today that it's adding an OpenAI chatbot (similar to ChatGPT) to Snapchat. "My AI" is an experimental feature initially available for $3.99-per-month Snapchat subscribers, although the company reportedly wants to expand it to all users eventually. My AI will appear as a regular Snap user profile, suggesting the company is marketing it less as an all-purpose writing machine and more as a virtual friend. "The big idea is that in addition to talking to our friends and family every day, we're going to talk to AI every day," CEO Evan Spiegel told The Verge. "And this is something we're well positioned to do as a messaging service."