Using ChatGPT within a group of people!

Piloting group chats in ChatGPT | OpenAI

So the trial is on. Having AI as a member of your work team, family reunion committee, or a neutral member that can provide logistics and planning. 
Applications that come to mind: project management, content creation, real time language translation

How could you imagine using this?

I’m really curious about this experiment. What jumps out at me from the article isn’t just “group chat with an AI,” it’s shared context plus shared memory of the convo for a small group of humans who are trying to get something done together.
 A few things I’m noticing:

• Group chats sit in their own section of the sidebar, and they’re separate from your 1:1 chats. Your personal memory doesn’t leak into the group, and the group doesn’t write to your memory either, at least in this first version.
• You can spin up a group from any existing conversation and invite 1–20 people with a link, so it’s very low-friction to “pull others into” a thread you’ve already started.
• It runs on GPT-5.1 Auto, and ChatGPT decides when to chime in vs when to stay quiet, which feels closer to having an actual “participant” in the room versus just a bot you ping.

For me, that opens up a lot of use cases where I don’t just want an AI to answer my question, I want it to structure the conversation for everyone involved: clarify goals, summarize, track decisions, and propose next steps.