OpenAI, the research facility that created the ChatGPT chatbot that has become popular, will charge $20 per month for a premium subscription to utilize the service.

Although it intends to make the trial more accessible, it will initially only be made available to people on a waiting list.

According to the company, the free version will still be accessible.

Meaning, ChatGPT Plus will grant paying users access to the chatbot even during peak hours and grant them early access to new features.

The premium service is the most recent incarnation of OpenAI's growing chatbot approach, which was first made available as a research preview. It was met with unexpectedly high demand from a populace that rapidly started experimenting with it for a wide range of purposes, from the informal and routine to the professional, as well as more worrying duties like assignment cheating and spreading false information.

To assist readers in determining if information was created by an AI program like ChatGPT rather than a human, the business developed a tool this week. However, OpenAI noted that the tool is not identifying nearly three-quarters of instances of content that was generated by a bot.

The chatbot, which was made available for public preview in November and quickly drew one million users, has repeatedly experienced traffic overload as a result of users flooding the website at once. OpenAI, which finalized a $10 billion investment agreement with Microsoft Corp. last month, is also looking for workable business models to offset the high operating expenses of its products and turn a profit.

Using data from the internet, ChatGPT offers answers to inquiries that appear to be from real people.