{"id":968910,"date":"2025-10-22T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968910"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:43:45","slug":"openai-responds-to-whatsapp-ban-on-chatgpt-says-thankfully-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/22\/openai-responds-to-whatsapp-ban-on-chatgpt-says-thankfully-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI responds to WhatsApp ban on ChatGPT, says: Thankfully we have &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT will stop working on Meta from January 15 next year, the company said. In a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI wrote that Meta has changed its policies, \u201cso 1-800-ChatGPT won&#8217;t work on WhatsApp after Jan 15, 2026\u201d, adding \u201cLuckily we have an app, website, and browser you can use instead to access ChatGPT\u201d. For those unaware, Meta updated its Business Application Programming Interfaces (API) terms recently, banning general-purpose AI chatbots. The updated policy adds a dedicated clause for &#8220;AI Providers,&#8221; restraining developers of large-language models or generative-AI assistants from distributing their bots via WhatsApp&#8217;s business infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s statement on WhatsApp ban on ChatGPT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT will stop working on Meta from January 15 next year, the company said. In a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI wrote that Meta has changed its policies, \u201cso 1-800-ChatGPT won&#8217;t work on WhatsApp after Jan 15, 2026\u201d, adding \u201cLuckily we have an app, website, and browser you can use instead to access ChatGPT\u201d. For those unaware, Meta updated its Business Application Programming Interfaces (API) terms recently, banning general-purpose AI chatbots. The updated policy adds a dedicated clause for &#8220;AI Providers,&#8221; restraining developers of large-language models or generative-AI assistants from distributing their bots via WhatsApp&#8217;s business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}