ChatGPT to Become More Social Media-Like with Direct Messaging Feature
OpenAI’s New Social Shift:
OpenAI is planning to make ChatGPT more interactive and community-oriented by introducing a direct messaging (DM) feature. This move will allow users to communicate with each other and even form group discussions, giving ChatGPT a social media-like experience.
Towards an All-in-One Social AI App:
With this update, OpenAI aims to transform ChatGPT into a complete social and creative hub. The new direction follows the launch of Sora 2, the company’s advanced AI video generation model, and a TikTok-like AI video app, signaling OpenAI’s growing focus on social interaction and multimedia creativity.
New Apps SDK for Developers:
Earlier this month, OpenAI released the Apps SDK, enabling developers to build and publish custom AI applications within ChatGPT. This step positions ChatGPT as a potential rival to major app ecosystems such as the apple App Store and google Play Store, offering a new platform for AI-based innovation.
Direct Messaging and Collaboration:
According to Tibor Blaho, lead engineer at AIPRM.com, OpenAI is actively testing a DM feature that will let users chat directly, collaborate on projects, brainstorm ideas, generate images, and search together within ChatGPT. Despite this social integration, privacy protections will remain in place — users will not have access to each other’s personal ChatGPT memory.
Group Chats, Invite Links, and Privacy Concerns:
Reports suggest that users will soon be able to create or join group chats via invite links, enhancing teamwork and community discussions.
However, it is not yet confirmed if these conversations will be end-to-end encrypted, like on whatsapp or Signal.
OpenAI continues to face data privacy challenges — notably, in August, private chat links were accidentally made public on google search after the “share” feature launch. The company later resolved this issue by collaborating with google to remove the exposed data.
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