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In early 2023, ChatGPT started going viral on forums and social networks, especially in groups related to Marketing and technology; lucid Gen also found it good to start learning. Although OpenAI is limiting ChatGPT account registration to many countries, we still have a way to create a ChatGPT account right in our country. Many people think that it is too intelligent, it can be a product to replace Google, or it can replace human content creators quickly. So, how true is it? Let’s discover ChatGPT through this article on Lucid Gen.
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI, a company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT can answer many complex questions from many fields coherently and straight to the point of the question. In addition to answering questions, ChatGPT is very helpful in giving ideas or advice. Although ChatGPT has learned all of humanity’s knowledge until the most recent year, it cannot answer questions regarding future events.
Personal experience with ChatGPT
After creating a ChatGPT account and using it for a few days, Lucid Gen would like to give a few personal reviews as follows:
Good points
- Answer directly to the problem: I think this one is good because it saves us the trouble of searching in many places and a lot of time reading and synthesizing. However, search, and aggregation skills are still essential; these skills should not be lost because of using AI.
- The answer is coherent and clear: I had to “Oh wow” with ChatGPT when I first used it; the way it presented the responses was straightforward to read and understand. It even left comments to explain in its suggested code snippets.
- Can answer questions to find answers: There are subtle answers, and you can hardly find answers from Google and many websites.
- Write clean code: For questions related to code, such as Python programming, ChatGPT will give you an elegant sample code.
- Ability to think to answer: With questions related to situations and numbers, ChatGPT can analyze and give answers with clear explanations. This is something that Google has not done yet.
- More replies can be added: If you don’t like an answer by ChatGPT, you can ask it to give you another solution.
- Can learn while chatting with us: During the Q&A, ChatGPT is also learning from your responses. If the two work well together, it can intelligently answer questions later.
Bad points
- Often stopped before replying: Many complain that ChatGPT is stopped before replying. Lucid Gen also encountered this situation in Vietnamese, which is less common in English.
- Sometimes wrong answers: Because ChatGPT only relearns human knowledge to answer, sometimes it also gives wrong answers. For example, when Lucid Gen asks him to code a piece of Python, that code may not be correct, unusable, or modified to be usable.
How to create a ChatGPT account step by step
To create a ChatGPT account, you need a phone number in a foreign country, such as the US. Also, you need to access ChatGPT by IP in the countries that OpenAI supports. This is why many of you cannot create a ChatGPT account. Don’t worry; Lucid Gen will help you solve these two problems.
Install and use VPN
Step 1: Install the Touch VPN extension into Chrome before accessing the ChatGPT account registration page. This utility will help you to have an IP in another country.
Step 2: Select the location in the countries that ChatGPT is supporting, should choose the United States, then click Connect.
Step 3: Check if Touch VPN is working or not. You see the words You are browsing from the United States; then Touch VPN is active. You can also use sites like whatismyipaddress.com to see if your current IP has changed.
Create a OpenAI account
Step 4: Visit the chatgpt.com page and select Sign up to create a ChatGPT account.
Step 5: Enter your email and click Continue to create a ChatGPT account. You should not use the method of signing up with Google or Microsoft because you may not be able to get the password when you need it; Lucid Gen encountered this situation when he wanted to share the account with friends.
Step 6: Set a password for your ChatGPT account with at least eight characters.
Step 7: Open your email to get the email verification message. You can click Resend email if you do not receive an email from OpenAI.
Step 8: Click the Verify email address button to verify your email with OpenAI.
Step 9: Click the login button to log in with the ChatGPT account created after successful email verification.
Handling Not available error when verifying email
If, unfortunately, you get a Not available error while creating a ChatGPT account, please handle it as follows: Click F12 > go to the Application tab > select the website in the Local Storage section > select the line with the word access_token > click the delete button > reopen the path email verification instructions.
Verify phone number by SMS service
Step 10: Enter your full name when you first log in to ChatGPT and click the Continue button.
Step 11: Enter a phone number in the US country to verify the phone number. If you don’t have a US phone number, make sure you have any friends living in the US. If not, don’t worry; continue with the steps below.
Step 12: Use any SMS service to get a US phone number. I will guide with SMSPool because it is easy to use and cheap, the price is less than 1$. Registration is also fast and does not require authentication, so please create an account and log in to SMSPool.
Step 13: Top up SMSPool. Click Deposit, select the payment method as Creditcard, the amount is 1$ enough, then click the Deposit button.
Step 14: Fill in your Visa card information for payment. Creditcard or Debitcard are accepted.
Step 15: Enter OTP from your bank and send for payment.
Step 16: Check the amount in SMSPool after payment.
Step 17: Rent a phone number to receive phone number verification messages. Select Quick Order on the menu > select Service as OpenAI > select Purchase for Country as the United States.
Step 18: Copy the phone number from the provided SMSPool.
Step 19: Go back to ChatGPT, enter SMSPool’s phone number and click Send code to receive the verification code.
Step 20: Copy the verification code that SMSPool provides to enter the verification code for your ChatGPT account.
Congratulation! At this point, you have successfully created a ChatGPT or OpenAI account. Let’s start exploring it!
How to use ChatGPT
First, choose Dark mode or keep Light mode to suit your vision. Then send ChatGPT a question and wait for it to respond. If you are unsatisfied with that answer, click the Regenerate response button to have ChatGPT give you another answer.
Ask questions on the same topic in a chat session so that ChatGPT can learn and understand your wishes. If you have a question on a different topic, creating a new chat session would be better.
ChatGPT also supports many other languages, such as Vietnamese. However, the response speed will be much slower, and sometimes it will be stopped when the reply has not been completed. If you find yourself in this situation, text ChatGPT to “continue your answer”, and it will complete the missing reply.
If you get an error while chatting and can’t request ChatGPT Regenerate response, please revisit the ChatGPT homepage to eliminate this error.
Frequently asked questions
Can ChatGPT replace Google?
From Lucid Gen’s point of view, it is not possible. The most basic reason is that AI has to learn human-generated content; without Google and websites powered by humans, AI wouldn’t be able to learn much new knowledge. There are also many other reasons related to our habits, such as: citing the source of knowledge, discussing with each other on forums, searching and synthesizing.
Can ChatGPT replace content creators?
Cannot. ChatGPT is a good tool for us to refer to ideas, but it cannot do the content completely (For example, write an article like this). The first is that its style is entirely mechanical, and the second is that there is nothing “creative” because it only takes the content of previous creators to learn and answer for you, so you do not create new value for the reader.
ChatGPT is stopped when not replying; what to do?
You can message “reply to the above comment” so that ChatGPT can complete the unfinished answer. Asking in English will also help you avoid this error.
How to verify an account without a phone number?
As Lucid Gen instructed, you can borrow a friend’s phone number if they are abroad or use a service that receives authentic messages.
Conclusion
It can be said that the process of creating a ChatGPT account is the most elaborate and most extended ever that Lucid Gen knows. Many obstacles to using the correct IP and SMS verification are confusing, so not everyone can create a ChatGPT account. Do you see the future with ChatGPT? Please leave a comment below the article to interact with Lucid Gen.
hello, again thanks for all that hard work and hours to help us, unfortunately, i am in china, and can get through the first few steps and all that, but no friends in the US, no Visa … is there any other ways ? wechat pay maybe ? … i m stuck here
Hello, you have to find any SMS service that accepts your payment methods and provides US or UK phone numbers. Good luck!
Hi author,
Do you know how many code can be received per phone number in SMSPool service?
Thanks
Hello, only one code.
This is the best way to creata an account , thank you very much
Congratulations!