Your ChatGPT conversation history is now searchable

OpenAI

OpenAI debuted a caller measurement to much efficiently negociate your increasing ChatGPT chat history connected Tuesday: a hunt usability for nan web app. With it, you’ll beryllium capable to quickly aboveground erstwhile references and chats to mention wrong your existent ChatGPT conversation.

“We’re starting to rotation retired nan expertise to hunt done your chat history connected ChatGPT web,” nan institution announced via a station connected X (formerly Twitter). “Now you tin quickly & easy bring up a chat to reference, aliases prime up a chat wherever you near off.”

The caller characteristic is presently rolling retired to each users, albeit successful phases. ChatGPT Plus and Teams subscribers should each person entree by nan extremity of Tuesday, pinch Enterprise and Edu subscribers receiving it by adjacent Tuesday. Free-tier users will person to hold a spot to effort it for themselves, however. History hunt will get passim nan adjacent period for non-paying users.

History hunt is simply a chopped characteristic from the SearchGPT prototype that was released successful July. SearchGPT is designed to “combine nan spot of our AI models pinch accusation from nan web to springiness you accelerated and timely answers pinch clear and applicable sources,” according to its merchandise page — fundamentally mimicking Perplexity’s “AI arsenic a click-saving reply machine” template.

Rather than utilizing AI to summarize hunt results, arsenic Google’s AI Overview does, SearchGPT would “quickly and straight respond to your questions pinch up-to-date accusation from nan web while giving you clear links to applicable sources.”

Tuesday’s in-chat hunt characteristic was initially spotted by developers successful precocious August, code-named “Fanny Pack Chat Sidebar.” Tibor Blaho, engineering lead astatine AIPRM, confirmed nan feature’s existence earlier this week while besides noting that “SearchGPT integration into ChatGPT now has a abstracted caller characteristic emblem ‘search tool’ (including civilization GPTs, wherever it is replacing ‘Web Browsing’ pinch ‘Web Search’).”

Given nan number of times that Perplexity has been accused of outright plagiarism successful 2024 alone (the startup is presently being sued by News Corp complete accusations of copyright infringement connected a “massive scale”), OpenAI’s determination to travel suit seems a spot hypocritical — particularly truthful aft its statement against paying for copyrighted content earlier this year.