ChatGPT, the online artificial chatbot taking the world by storm, is being used for a lot, including messaging Tinder matches and writing essays. It was only a matter of time before replicas and chatbot spin-offs trickled our way. One such AI asks: what if ChatGPT was a cat?
Enter CatGPT(Opens in a new window), a chatbot answering that very question. In response to any query, the ChatGPT alternative will simply answer “meow” with increasing intensity and volume.
Credit: Screenshot: CatGPT
Data journalist Wouter van Dijke(Opens in a new window) created CatGPT, made the site for fun and enlisted the help of ChatGPT to do so. “I did use ChatGPT to help build the site,” he shared on Twitter. “My first question was ‘Create a website with HTML and CSS, that looks like ChatGPT.'”
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Van Dijke also said that it took “some back and forth” to get the site right; after ChatGPT generated the first version of the JavaScript code, he jumped in. He’s shared the code on GitHub(Opens in a new window), too.
The bot doesn’t actually do anything with given input(Opens in a new window), instead simply offering a whole lot of “meows” — but if you meow back at it, it might enjoy the imitation as flattery. Just try it.
