Apple is sued as a large number of fake apps of 'ERNIE Bot', which can be called Chinese version ChatGPT, are occurring in the App Store



Baidu, a major Chinese search engine, claims that counterfeits of its proprietary chat AI, ERNIE Bot , are popping up in Apple's App Store. , sued the developer of the copy app and Apple.

Baidu sues Apple, app developers over fake Ernie bot apps | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-sues-apple-app-developers-over-fake-ernie-bot-apps-2023-04-08/



Baidu sues Apple to remove Ernie AI chatbot apps from App Store
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/04/08/apple-sued-to-stop-app-store-clones-of-baidus-ernie-ai-chatbot

Baidu's chat AI 'ERNIE Bot' is a highly versatile Chinese-compatible chat AI that can automatically generate text, images, sounds, dialects, videos, etc. It was rumored that Baidu was developing a conversational AI like ChatGPT even before the announcement of ERNIE Bot.




Baidu announced the ERNIE Bot on March 16, 2023, and at the time of the announcement, Baidu announced that 650 companies, including media, banks, and automakers, had already signed contracts to use the ERNIE Bot technology. was

At the time of writing the article, ERNIE Bot was at the stage where people who participated in the waiting list received an access code and could use it, and as of March 21, ``More than 870,000 people are waiting on the waiting list.'' reports The Register . However, Baidu issued a warning to anyone selling access codes in a statement, suggesting that access codes are being resold.



Baidu filed a lawsuit at the Beijing Haidian People's Court, saying that such ERNIE Bot copy apps are occurring in large numbers on the App Store. Baidu has issued a statement on Baidu AI, one of WeChat's official accounts, that ``Currently, there is no official app for ERNIE Bot,'' and it seems to be an ``app version ERNIE Bot'' that exists at the time of writing the article. mentions that they are all copy apps. Baidu also wrote in a document submitted to the Beijing Haidian People's Court that ``All ERNIE Bot apps in the App Store and other app stores are fake until we officially announce it,'' and the existing ERNIE Bot app is supposed to be fake.

Reuters has asked Apple to comment on this matter, but no response has been received at the time of writing.

When Reuters searched the App Store for the Chinese name of ERNIE Bot, ``Wenshin One Word'', it said that it was able to find at least four ERNIE Bot copy apps (fakes).

In addition, Baidu has also released the image generation AI 'ERNIE-ViLG', and you can see what kind of images can be generated using this by reading the following article.

Summary of how to install and run 'GUI Tool ERNIE-ViLG version' on Google Colab that makes it easy to create illustrations from a browser with Chinese image generation AI 'ERNIE-ViLG' - GIGAZINE



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