Last week, OpenAI — still looking for opportunities to put its chatbot in new spaces – introduction of group discussions with ChatGPT integrated. Based on early feedback, it is now expanding the feature to all users connected to ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans globally over the coming days.
The feature is presented as a new way to use ChatGPT with other people, especially in collaborative efforts, such as planning a large event.
Up to 20 people can be added to a group chat, and messages between individuals are not counted against ChatGPT’s rate limit, only when it replies.
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Using group chats ChatGPT-5.1 Auto. OpenAI also introduced new implementations of how and when the chatbot responds. He has learned new social behaviors for group discussions and will seemingly follow the flow of the conversation and remain silent or interject depending on what is said.
Adding “ChatGPT” to a message you send will always result in a response from the AI chatbot. You can also provide custom instructions to ChatGPT for the entire chat if you want it to respond with a certain tone or personality, and it can react to messages with emoji.
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Group chats do not use memory from your existing personal chats, and new memory is not created from group conversations, although OpenAI says it is exploring a way for you to choose to use existing memory in the future.
If you’re worried about being thrown into a dozen chats without your permission, you’ll probably be happy to learn that you must accept an invitation before you can be added to a group chat with ChatGPT. Additional safeguards are also in place for users under 18, which will reduce sensitive content to all members of the group chat.
OpenAI says group chats are the start of its efforts to make ChatGPT more of a shared, collaborative space for people.
