OpenAI is widely rolling out group chats inside ChatGPT, allowing you to invite up to 20 other people to your conversation with the AI chatbot.

According to The Verge (OpenAI is launching group chats in ChatGPT, written by Emma Roth and available here), the feature is now available globally to all logged-in users, following a short pilot earlier this month.

OpenAI positions the feature as a way to collaborate with friends, family members, or coworkers when doing things like organizing a dinner, creating travel plans, and drafting an outline — all with ChatGPT on board.

You create a group chat by selecting the “people” icon in the top-right corner of the ChatGPT app. ChatGPT will then copy your existing chat to a new group chat, where you can add others by sending them a link to your conversation (which they can also share). ChatGPT will prompt you to enter a name, username, and photo the first time you enter or create a group chat, making it easier to see who’s talking.

OpenAI says it trained ChatGPT to go along with the “flow of the conversation,” which means it will try to determine the best times to chime in and when to stay quiet. I wonder if it will ever “hold court” like some humans I know? 🤔

You can directly mention “ChatGPT” in a message if you want a response from the chatbot. ChatGPT can also react to messages with emoji and reference profile photos when doing things like creating personalized images.

You can access various settings by selecting the group chat icon on the top-right corner of the screen, which houses options to add or remove people, mute notifications, and give custom instructions to ChatGPT. OpenAI notes that ChatGPT won’t use memories from your personal chats inside group conversations, nor will it create new memories based on your group chats.

ChatGPT uses GPT-5.1 Auto to power its responses in group chats, “which chooses the best model to respond with based on the prompt and the models available to the user that ChatGPT is responding to.” Rate limits (i.e., number of messages or tokens that free users are limited to over a period of time) will only apply when ChatGPT sends a message in the chat.

I guess this truly puts the “Chat” in ChatGPT! 😉 And it means that eDiscovery professionals now have yet another new source for human messages and communications.

So, what do you think? Are you looking to try ChatGPT’s group chat feature? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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