Google and Online Services Blacklisting for ChatGPT Application

Bertha Kgokong
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I am curious to hear if anyone in this community has experienced anything like this before, I am completely mind-blown at the reaction I am getting from online service providers since releasing my last product MobileGPT: https://www.producthunt.com/products/mobilegpt Let me start by saying I have been building Software Products for years now and have a few SaaS applications under my own company and many more that I have built for other clients, in all that time I have never experienced anything like this before. After releasing my last product, my website was immediately flagged. When I tried getting ads for MobileGPT - I was blocked and suspended by LinkedIn, Google and even TikTok. This includes my personal accounts, I was just shocked. So upon further investigation, it turns out all the sites have flagged me for running a scam, the MobileGPT I developed triggered spam alerts. Which is just unbelievable, for the following reasons: šŸ‘‰šŸ½ The product is built using publicly available APIs, legally provided by OpenAI which I pay for to access via API key šŸ‘‰šŸ½ There are many other similar products out there šŸ‘‰šŸ½ I never got this type of suspension notices, even when I was in crypto. I could create a site, and an ad without even having to provide my ID documents What has the community experience been with ChatGPT, are you also getting blocked and suspended, or is it just me? Because I have my suspicions that I am caught in a racial profiling classifier net that has decided my app must be a scam because black women from South Africa do not develop complex AI powered applications.

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Rebecca Harris
It appears that the individual is facing issues with their last product, MobileGPT, as online service providers have flagged it for spam, despite using publicly available APIs from OpenAI and seeing similar products being unaffected, leading to suspicions of possible racial profiling.