OpenAI, unwilling to set aside any of the tried and true engagement bait that other companies have rolled out, is getting in on the end-of-year wrap-up action by introducing a Spotify Wrapped-esque feature called \u201cYour Year with ChatGPT.\u201d The roundup of your yearly activity launched Monday and is available to users in English-speaking markets, including the US, Australia, Canada, the UK, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
The feature includes a bunch of slides designed to help recap your year for you. It starts with a poem that is supposed to capture the general vibe of your year based on your conversations with ChatGPT. It also shows you stats about your usage, including total chats and your most talkative day. To acknowledge that the company has a sense of humor, it also tells you how many em-dashes you and the chatbot exchanged. That\u2019s probably an easier quirk for the company to acknowledge than a metric like \u201challucinations generated.\u201d<\/p>\n
The chatbot will also offer you an \u201caward\u201d based on the types of tasks you tackled with ChatGPT, an \u201carchetype\u201d that suits your usage, an AI-generated \u201cportrait\u201d of your general vibe, and an analysis of your conversational style that includes a review of several messages you sent. For instance, ChatGPT reminded me that the last time I used it, I had to specifically give it instructions not to make up statistics for which it couldn\u2019t find sourcing.<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s decision to roll out its year-in-review followed a viral trend<\/a> among the AI-inclined online, who had already started asking ChatGPT<\/a> to give them a recap<\/a> of their year. But the official \u201cYour Year with ChatGPT\u201d does something that the ad hoc version can\u2019t do: provide a reminder to update your privacy settings.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s yearly wrap-up only works for free, Plus, and Pro users who have the \u201creference saved memories\u201d and \u201creference chat history\u201d options turned on, per TechCrunch<\/a>. Those settings, which allow ChatGPT to remember past conversations and pull information from them, are both turned on by default. To turn these off, open Settings, select Personalization, and look under the Manage Memories heading. Here, you should see toggles for memory-related settings. You can also manage saved memories, removing specific information you\u2019d like the chatbot to forget.<\/p>\n