Watercolour drawing of people talking to each other through colorful speech bubbles.

ChatGPT, the online artificial chatbot taking the world by storm, is being used for a lot, including messaging Tinder matches and writing essays. It was only a matter of time before replicas and chatbot spin-offs trickled our way. One such AI asks: what if ChatGPT was a cat?

Enter CatGPT, a chatbot answering that very question. In response to any query, the ChatGPT alternative will simply answer “meow” with increasing intensity and volume.

A screenshot of CatGPT answering "meow" in the chat.
Credit: Screenshot: CatGPT

Data journalist Wouter van Dijke created CatGPT, made the site for fun and enlisted the help of ChatGPT to do so. “I did use ChatGPT to help build the site,” he shared on Twitter. “My first question was ‘Create a website with HTML and CSS, that looks like ChatGPT.'”

Van Dijke also said that it took “some back and forth” to get the site right; after ChatGPT generated the first version of the JavaScript code, he jumped in. He’s shared the code on GitHub, too.

The bot doesn’t actually do anything with given input, instead simply offering a whole lot of “meows” — but if you meow back at it, it might enjoy the imitation as flattery. Just try it.

Mashable

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