OpenAI tests ChatGPT group chats. How to try it.

You can now bring your group chat shenanigans to ChatGPT.

Well, some of you can.

OpenAI announced in a company blog post that it is testing group chats in ChatGPT. You can bring together up to 20 people to collaborate on projects and get feedback from ChatGPT. If you’re trying to plan a group dinner, camping trip, or anything, you can now do it with the help of an AI companion. These chats will be broadcast separately from your regular ChatGPT conversations, and OpenAI promises that your private chats won’t be shared with anyone in group chats.

How to try OpenAI’s new ChatGPT group chat

You’re probably wondering how to try it yourself. Well, we have bad news for everyone in the United States: It doesn’t look like you can do it yet. This is a small-scale pilot program for users in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. Western readers will just have to wait a bit, it seems.

The OpenAI blog post states: “Group chats are starting to roll out on mobile and web for ChatGPT users signed in 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 to inform how we expand to more regions and ChatGPT plans.

If you are able to try 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. This will create a new, separate chat just for the group. Everyone in the chat will need to create 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 driver and let you know if and when it’s available in the US.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, filed a lawsuit in April against OpenAI, alleging that it violated Ziff Davis’ copyrights in the training and operation of its AI systems.