Fax Reimagined: German AI Startup Connects ChatGPT with Fax Machines
The German startup Simple Fax has integrated ChatGPT into faxes, allowing users to interact with artificial intelligence through a convenient online form. This is digitalization the German way!
Have you ever wondered how great it would be if your good old fax machine could chat with you? Well, the German startup Simple Fax decided that this is exactly what we all have been missing.
Meet your new old friend - the fax bot
In January of this year, they launched a communication line with ChatGPT via fax machine. Yes, you heard that right. Now, to communicate with artificial intelligence, all you need to do is send a request to a dedicated number, and boom! - the machine will send you a response back on your favorite piece of paper.
What’s the cost?
The startup doesn’t charge for connecting to the chatbot, but there is a separate fee for sending each fax to a landline number. Well, good things in life come at a price, don’t they?
Who even needs this?
The service emerged as a gentle mockery of German bureaucracy: despite the advent of high-speed internet, over 80% of German companies still use fax machines, requiring paper documents with signatures and stamps. And yes, the typewriter just got a worthy competitor for AI! Who would have thought we’d be laughing about this in the 21st century?
