ChatGPT is coming for your group chat. But do you want it there? (www.businessinsider.com)

OpenAI has begun rolling out a group chat feature in ChatGPT (announced Nov. 20, 2025) after an early-tester pilot; it’s available globally to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus and Pro tiers. The feature lets you add multiple people into a single ChatGPT conversation so the assistant can observe, answer, or participate alongside real humans. The basic behavior is straightforward: the assistant maintains shared context for the group and can provide recommendations, itineraries, notes, or code help while multiple users interact in the same thread. The rollout is notable because it turns ChatGPT into a shared collaboration surface, with clear productivity upside for study groups, coworking, meeting minutes, pair programming and other multi-user workflows. Early testing highlights practical issues and technical implications: the model frequently interjects unless participants explicitly address each other, replies are often long-winded, and its suggestions can lack fine-grained context (e.g., recommending hard-to-book, expensive restaurants). That behavior raises UX and moderation questions — turn-taking controls, verbosity tuning, privacy and security of social chats, and mitigation of hallucinations in group decisions. Expect experimentation around permissioning, system prompts for group roles, and more nuanced conversational arbitration as adoption grows.