You can now bring your group chats to ChatGPT.
Well, some of you can.
OpenAI announced in a company blog post that it is testing group chat in ChatGPT. You can bring up to 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 so with the help of an AI companion. These chats will remain separate from your regular ChatGPT conversations, and OpenAI promises that your private chats will not be shared with anyone in the group chat.
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How to try OpenAI’s new ChatGPT group chat
You may be wondering how to try it yourself. Well, we have bad news for anyone in the United States: just yet it doesn’t look like you can do that. This is a small-scale pilot program for users in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. It looks like readers in the West will just have to wait a while.
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OpenAI’s blog post said: “Group chat is rolling 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 hope to learn from early user feedback as we expand to more regions and ChatGPT plans.”
if you Are To be able to try out this feature, OpenAI provided some instructions. You can tap the people icon in the upper-right corner of whatever chat you’re viewing, and get a link that you can share with others. Doing this will create a new, separate chat just for the group. Everyone in the chat needs to set up a quick user profile so everyone else knows who they are, and all group chats will be placed in their own special section of the sidebar.
We’ll keep an eye on this pilot and let you know when it becomes available in the US
Disclosure: Mashable’s parent company Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in the training and operation of its AI systems.