“Thanks for verifying your student status! You can now claim two free months of ChatGPT Plus,” is what someone would see in their email if they clicked one of the many ads online, signed up for OpenAI’s ChatGPT and waited approximately five seconds for the site’s verification process to cross check their name with a database of college students.
ChatGPT, which has become a popular AI tool since its creation in 2022, is now offering its “Plus” version for free until the end of May, OpenAI announced in a press release given to the Texan on April 2.
The “Plus” version, which normally costs $20 a month according to OpenAI’s website, allows students to access a number of features unavailable in the free version, including a higher number of uses for its image generation, data analysis and text-to-voice options.
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