Just when you thought virtual collaboration couldn’t get worse, OpenAI stuffs a bot into your group conversations

Feel like your team's group chat is a bit lifeless? Remote coworkers not really collaborating as well as they should be? There's a new way to stir the pot now that OpenAI has piloted ChatGPT group chats: cram a chatbot into the conversation and let it chime in whenever it thinks it should.

Where there are chatty bots, there's OpenAI, naturally, which on Thursday announced the pilot of group chats in ChatGPT. The new feature is now available for mobile and web users logged into ChatGPT, be they free, Go, Plus, or Pro users - but don't go trying to suck your friends and coworkers into a ChatGPT group chat unless you're in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, or Taiwan, as those are the only places getting access to the pilot. 

OpenAI is pushing the new group chat feature as a way for people to collaborate ...