Josephs: OpenAI sent Autopilot a cease and desist over ChatGPT portfolio
Chris Josephs · Meet the man who growth hacked his app to 1M downloads · Sep 30, 2024 · at 53:18
Chris Josephs, co-founder of Autopilot, explains why the company had to close their viral ChatGPT investing experiment.
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“OpenAI sent us a cease and desist, so we have to close that one down.”
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