You Might Soon Be Able to Sign Into Other Apps Using ChatGPT

ChatGPT has been growing fast since its launch. In its first two months back in 2023, the app gained 100 million users, becoming the fastest app to ever reach that milestone, until Threads came along and stole the crown. Still, that record-breaking growth was only the beginning.

Today, ChatGPT boasts around 600 million monthly active users, making it one of the biggest consumer apps in the world. And now, OpenAI wants to take things a step further by helping you log in to other apps with your ChatGPT account.

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Just like you can “Sign in with Google” or “Sign in with Apple,” OpenAI is exploring a “Sign in with ChatGPT” feature. The company quietly previewed the experience inside Codex CLI, its open-source coding assistant, allowing developers to connect ChatGPT Free, Plus, or Pro accounts to their OpenAI API accounts. As a bonus, they offered $5 in API credits to Plus users and $50 to Pro users, a small incentive to test the waters.

But this isn’t just a login feature. It’s OpenAI signalling a bigger move into the identity and access space currently dominated by tech giants like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. These companies already offer seamless login systems that double as data and engagement funnels. OpenAI, riding the wave of ChatGPT’s popularity, clearly wants in on that game too.

For everyday users, signing into apps with ChatGPT could mean fewer passwords to remember and a more unified experience across apps, especially those powered by AI. For developers, it offers a new way to plug into the OpenAI ecosystem. OpenAI is already collecting interest through a developer form, asking companies about their user base size (from under 1,000 to over 100 million weekly users), their current AI pricing models, and whether they already use OpenAI’s API.

There’s also a focus on security. While details are still limited, OpenAI is expected to offer encrypted logins, two-factor authentication, and clear privacy policies to earn user trust from day one.

OpenAI clearly wants to be more than just an AI provider, it’s aiming for a spot alongside the likes of Google and Apple in the consumer tech space.

But I do have to address the irony. Most people have either used their Google or Apple account to sign into ChatGPT, so isn’t all this just signing in with the original account, but with extra steps? Oh well, the usefulness of this feature remains to be seen.

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