OpenAI launches ‘instructions’ for ChatGPT, letting it remember who you are and what you want

Feature is not available in the UK and EU, where regulators have shown concern about company’s data gathering practices

OpenAI has launched new “custom instructions” for ChatGPT, aimed at letting the system know who you are and what you want.

The tool allows users to “share anything you’d like ChatGPT to consider in its response”, the company said.

That might mean always starting conversations with the chatbot being aware that you are a teacher of young children, for instance, so that it can word its responses accordingly. Or a user might set an instruction that they are a computer programmer in a specific language, so that it can know how to format its responses.

They can also be more specific instructions to the chatbot itself. Users might opt to tell it what tone to use in its responses, for instance, or to keep to a word limit.

The new tool comes with a range of warnings about the way that the data itself is used. Those instructions might be shared with the developers of any plug-ins, for instance, and it will also be used gathered by OpenAI.

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