OpenAI Tests ChatGPT Writing Style That Pulls Examples From Your Apps

Overview

• OpenAI confirmed in reporting from Sept. 7–8 that it is running a limited test of a new Writing Style feature that is available to a small group of users.
• Onboarding screenshots and company messages show the feature asks users to supply or connect examples in three categories—Messaging, Documents, and Email—with services listed such as Slack, Google Drive, Notion, Gmail and SharePoint.
• Once enabled, ChatGPT would reference existing content in those connected apps to model a user’s vocabulary, tone and sentence patterns so it can draft text that sounds more like the user without repeated manual examples.
• Key implementation details remain unspecified in current coverage, including how much content will be scanned, what explicit permission controls users will have, and how data will be stored or removed, raising privacy and control questions.
• The approach is being compared to Anthropic’s Claude Styles but differs because it pulls from live connected services rather than requiring users to upload samples, and OpenAI has given no wider rollout timeline.