Before long, your pitch deck, Slack note or next email may well sound as though you put pen to paper yourself. The Writing Style feature for ChatGPT is being put through its paces to ensure it can replicate not just your voice and word choice but also your punctuation idiosyncrasies.
BleepingComputer has a report to that effect, noting the feature is limited to a few at present. Then again, a post on X from ChatGPT would have you believe it is on the web for any paid plan with work access, so it seems to depend on the account.
What is changing for users
There is no need to paste in old samples for every chat; let ChatGPT examine what you have written on connected services and it will do the rest. It is designed to be context aware, meaning a formal email will not come across as casual and a lengthy document will not have the ring of a chatty note.
The system can be quite personal in its approach. ChatGPT will pick up on capitalisation habits, sign-off patterns and favourite phrases to make for a draft that does not feel generic.
Users should see some immediate benefits:
– No more time restating how you want the tone to be
– Drafts with a personal and steady consistency
– An automatic switch of style depending on the app or task
– These changes hold true on mobile as well as the web
How ChatGPT learns your voice
OpenAI’s tests cover three types of writing: Messaging, Documents and Email. One finds examples like Slack, Google Drive and Notion, or Gmail. Link those up and ChatGPT will draw on your actual work to inform what it puts out.
Large language models are at work behind the scenes to map sentence structure, punctuation and tone across your files and messages. In doing so they create a profile of your style to be used in future drafts.
In some ways it is like Claude’s Styles feature in building something custom from user examples, but OpenAI seems to be going a step further by tapping into writing already in your connected services.
Where it works and setup
You will find the company using familiar tools in their examples: SharePoint, Notion, Slack, Google Drive and Gmail. The onboarding screen for the test makes plain what to expect: ‘ChatGPT will write in your voice by referencing examples from your connected apps.’
To give it a try, provided you have access:
– Head to Settings or ChatGPT on the web
– Make your way to Personalisation
– Put in Writing Style
– And proceed to write as you normally would
Why this matters in daily work
Tone is often the sticking point, not the ideas. This could take the friction out of it. By telling the difference between a professional email and a Slack message, teams can get on with things at speed while still putting forward a brand voice or something with a personal touch.
Availability and unanswered questions
OpenAI will confirm it is testing Writing Style. But when it will be open to all? There is no word on that yet. Nor has the company made clear how much content it will pull from your apps or if there is total control over the matter.
For now, the key points are:
– Testing is active per OpenAI
– A broad rollout has no set date
– Scope and privacy are yet to be defined
The trajectory is obvious: ChatGPT is moving away from being a one-size-fits-all kind of assistant. With the right controls in place, having the AI reference your real work should yield natural drafts that save on editing and keep your voice uniform from one channel to the next.
