Carrot Weather update introduces snarky chatbot based on ChatGPT
by Jess Weatherbed from The Verge - All Posts on (#69V00)
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Carrot Weather, the forecasting app best known for its amusing (and often sassy) weather updates, has introduced a ChatGPT-based chatbot that allows users to chat directly with the app's irreverent personality using as much profanity as they can stand. Releasing globally today on iOS, version 5.10 of Carrot also expands its high-quality radar maps, notifications, and weather alerts to more countries.
You can ask the new Carrot chatbot for weather updates - which it'll provide with the app's usual scalding insults - alongside more recreational interactions we've come to expect from ChatGPT's generational AI, such as asking the bot to play a text-based adventure game or write a script for a crime drama. Users who find the chatbot's...