Chat GPT having apps? Not so fast

Hello folks,

This time, I’m going through email and found this very interesting chat GPT article from Kim Komando and staff.

The article is titled Security warning: How to spot fake ChatGPT apps hiding malware.

Lots of people within this community might be using this tool, and we know that it has been not very accurate in some situations. I myself have not used the app and I know that it apparently has been used to do some very interesting things.

With that said, the app is only available in a web based platform. A link is available within the article.

One of the items under the heading “How to avoid falling victim to fake ChatGPT apps and sites” caught my attention. It says:

It is best to always download apps from official app stores such as Google Play Store or Apple App Store, as they have strict security measures to prevent
fake or malicious apps from being published. Even though some malicious apps make it past security, you’re safer sticking with official app stores.

Really? When we post articles and hand out information to tell people about more malicious apps in Google’s store than IOS, the Google play store is just as bad. The goal is to be more secure, and it is true to always trust your platform’s app store, but I really wonder about Android.

Sure, IOS’s app store can have problems. There is no 100 percent security, but when we only had so far 40 plus apps this year to nothing for IOS to our knowledge, thtat pushes the Android count to at least 300 to at least 7 that we know of. That is a huge number. I’m not completely sure how to do the math, dividing 300 by 7 gives me 42.85% but I don’t think that’s even accurate.

In any case, check out the article I present here as it might be of interest to you.

Make it a great day!