You can bring your group chat shenanigans to ChatGPT now.
Well, some of you can.
OpenAI announced in a company blog post that it’s testing out group chats in ChatGPT. You can get as many as 20 people together to collaborate on projects and get ChatGPT’s input. If you’re trying to plan a dinner party, camping trip, or group-anything, you can now do that with the help of an AI companion. These chats will live separately from your regular ChatGPT conversations, and OpenAI promises that your private chats will not be shared with anyone in the group chats.
How to try OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Group Chat
You’re probably wondering how to try this yourself. Well, we have bad news for anyone in the United States: It doesn’t seem like you can, yet. This is a small-scale pilot program for users in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. Readers in the West will simply have to wait a while, it seems.
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OpenAI’s blog post states: “Group chats are starting to roll out on mobile and web for logged-in ChatGPT users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. This pilot is a small first step toward shared experiences in ChatGPT, and we expect to learn from early user feedback to inform how we expand to more regions and ChatGPT plans.”
If you are able to try out this feature, OpenAI provided some instructions. You can tap the people icon in the upper-right corner of any chat you’re viewing, and get a link you can share with others. Doing so will create a new, separate chat just for the group. Everyone in the chat will have to set up a quick user profile so everyone else knows who they are, and all group chats will be kept in their own special part of the sidebar.
We’ll keep an eye on this pilot and tell you if and when it’s available in the U.S.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.
