Is ChatGPT considered Ubuntu Third Party Software?

Question

Is ChatGPT considered Ubuntu Third Party Software?

Are questions about using it on Ubuntu on-topic?

Answer 1

You're not running ChatGPT. Your browser handles input and output, but it's not running on Ubuntu. It's running in datacentres rented by OpenAI.

A question about it —in the way it exists at the time of writing— is likely off-topic but there probably are questions about it, its API and ways to develop and improve Ubuntu that do integrate its service that could be on-topic, so it's important to note that "likely" explicitly does not mean "always and forever more".

There are other AI packages that you can run locally, and getting them working would be on-topic.

Answer 2

Generally no, but possibly

If your question is simply about using ChatGPT itself in your browser and your OS happens to be Ubuntu, then no, it isn't on-topic anymore than asking for help with other web applications is (i.e., it would be off-topic). If you're having an issue using the web version that is Ubuntu-specific, I suppose that could be on-topic, but I'm having trouble imagining such a question.

If a user asks ChatGPT how to do something on Ubuntu, and then has trouble, and wants to ask what their mistake was/how to do it correctly, then I think that would be on topic (although bear in mind that that last statement is my opinion, and I don't have a policy/Meta post backing that up)

That said, a question about how to get it or related software running locally would be on topic. Of course, AFAIK, you can't run it locally, but I know we already have (at least) one well-received question asking how to get a ChatGPT detector running locally.