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- OpenAI is testing a new 'Writing Style' feature for ChatGPT that learns how users write by referencing examples from connected apps, currently limited to a small user group
- Users can configure examples across three categories — Messaging (Slack), Documents (Google Drive, Notion), and Email (Gmail) — with onboarding text reading 'ChatGPT will write in your voice by referencing examples from your connected apps'
- Once configured, ChatGPT would draft new content in the user's natural voice across those services without requiring repeated tone explanations or manually pasted samples
- Anthropic previously launched a similar personalization feature called Styles that required users to manually upload or paste writing samples to generate a custom style
- OpenAI's experiment differs by referencing writing already existing inside connected services, potentially giving ChatGPT a much larger set of real examples spanning emails, messages, and longer documents
- OpenAI confirmed it is testing Writing Style but has not announced when the feature will roll out to users more widely
Why it matters: The feature moves personalization from manual sample-pasting to automatic ingestion of live email, message, and document data. Users get more natural-sounding drafts without curating examples, but linking Gmail, Slack, Google Drive, and Notion means ChatGPT can pull from a far deeper corpus of personal communication than competitors' manual-upload tools — a wider dataset for voice mimicry but also a broader surface of personal content being read by the assistant.
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