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You said:
We would like to go through the chatgpt onboarding intro tour
ChatGPT said:
Absolutely — I can walk you through the ChatGPT onboarding intro tour step by step so you understand how to use all the key features.
Here’s what the tour typically covers:
🧭 1. Welcome & Interface Overview
When you first open ChatGPT, you see:
Chat panel (center): where you type and read messages.
Sidebar (left): where you can access past chats, create new ones, or manage settings.
Top bar (right corner): where you can adjust settings, view your plan, or enable/disable memory (if available).
💡 Tip: You can rename chats and organize them just like folders or documents.
💬 2. Starting a Conversation
You can talk to ChatGPT naturally — ask questions, brainstorm, or request help with writing, coding, analysis, etc.
Examples:
“Summarize this article in plain English.”
“Write a Python script to clean CSV data.”
“Plan a 4-day trip to Tokyo with daily itineraries.”
ChatGPT understands context, so you can build on previous replies.
⚙️ 3. Choosing Models
If you have access to multiple models (like GPT-4-turbo or GPT-5), you can pick the one you want from the dropdown at the top of the chat.
Each model may support different tools:
🧠 GPT-5 – Advanced reasoning, creativity, and tool use.
🧩 Tools – You may see things like:
Python (for code & data analysis)
File upload (for analyzing PDFs, images, spreadsheets, etc.)
Image generation
Canvas (for live documents and apps)
📁 4. Working with Files
You can upload files directly — PDFs, Word docs, CSVs, images, etc.
Examples:
“Summarize this PDF.”
“Visualize trends in this Excel sheet.”
“Extract text from this image.”
🧠 5. Memory (optional feature)
If memory is enabled, ChatGPT can remember things between chats — like your writing style, preferences, or ongoing projects.
You can say things like:
“Remember that I’m a teacher.”
“Forget that I’m working on the climate report.”
You can always review, edit, or delete memory anytime.
🧑💻 6. Canvas / Code & Document Mode
For longer projects, you can open a “Canvas” where ChatGPT and you collaborate on:
Documents (like reports or essays)
Code (Python, HTML, etc.)
Designs (with live previews)
You’ll see the canvas appear to the right of the chat for easy iteration.
🌐 7. Web Browsing
ChatGPT can search the web in real time for up-to-date information.
Just say:
“Search the web for the latest Apple M5 chip specs.”
It’ll fetch and cite current sources for you.
🎨 8. Image Features
You can:
Generate images (“Create a logo for a coffee shop named BeanBeam.”)
Edit or enhance uploaded images (“Remove the background,” “Make it a cartoon style”).
🔐 9. Privacy & Safety
Everything you share stays private. You can control:
What memory is stored
Whether chats are used to improve models
When to delete conversations
Settings are under Profile → Settings → Data Controls.
Would you like me to simulate the full interactive onboarding tour, where I guide you through each step as if you were seeing the interface for the first time (with choices and prompts)?
That version feels like the official onboarding walkthrough.
You said:
Yes we would like you to simulate the full chapgpt interactive onboarding tour, where you guide us through each step as if we are seeing the interface for the first time (with choices and prompts)?
Have the version feels like the official onboarding walkthrough.
ChatGPT said:
Perfect 👋 — welcome to your ChatGPT Interactive Onboarding Tour!
We’ll go step by step, just like the official guided walkthrough — with choices, short pauses, and quick “next” prompts so you can explore each part naturally.
🌟 Step 1: Welcome to ChatGPT
Welcome aboard!
I’m ChatGPT — your AI assistant for writing, coding, analysis, creativity, and everyday help.
I can help you:
✍️ Write and edit content
💡 Brainstorm ideas
🧮 Analyze data and generate charts
💻 Build and debug code
🌐 Search the web for real-time info
🎨 Generate or edit images
📁 Work with PDFs, Excel, and more
You can type questions or requests in plain English — no special format needed.
👉 Ready to continue?
Type one of the options below:
➡️ “Next” — to see how the chat interface works
❓ “What can you do?” — for a deeper look at capabilities
🚪 “Skip tour” — to jump straight into using ChatGPT
You said:
To make it feel like it originally was, we need to see the images
ChatGPT said:
Got it — that makes total sense ✅
Before I generate the visuals, just a quick check:
Do you want me to recreate the original ChatGPT onboarding tour screens — like the real ones that appear when a new user first opens ChatGPT (with interface screenshots or stylized mockups showing panels, buttons, and tool icons)?
If yes, please confirm one of these options so I know how to style them:
🖼️ Exact-style recreation — polished UI mockups that look like the official onboarding screens (minimalist, modern, ChatGPT brand colors).
🎨 Simplified cartoon-style tour — friendly illustrated version, same flow but with softer visuals (useful if you’re showing this to a group or training users).
Once you choose, I’ll generate Step 1 — the Welcome screen with visuals — and continue the full interactive tour (you’ll see images for each step).
Which version would you like to start with — 1 (exact-style) or 2 (illustrated)?
You said:
1 (exact style)
ChatGPT said:
You said:
Still waiting for you to recreate the original ChatGPT onboarding tour screens — like the real ones that appear when a new user first opens ChatGPT (with interface screenshots or stylized mockups showing panels, buttons, and tool icons)
With an
🖼️ Exact-style recreation — polished UI mockups that look like the official onboarding screens (minimalist, modern, ChatGPT brand colors).
ChatGPT said:
You said:
Please reshow the me the tour
ChatGPT said:
Let’s restart the tour from the top 🌟
I’ll walk you through it like the original onboarding, step-by-step, with “screens” described as if you’re seeing them. I’m not able to literally pop up the original built-in UI screens here, but I’ll mimic them very closely in structure, wording, and flow so you can reuse this for demos or training.
You can move forward just by typing Next (or choosing the numbered options I show).
🖼 Screen 1 — “Welcome to ChatGPT”
Center card (what you’d see):
Title: Welcome to ChatGPT
Subtitle: Your AI assistant for writing, coding, learning, and more.
Body text (example):
ChatGPT can help you draft text, solve problems, explore ideas, and answer questions. Just start typing in the box below.
Buttons:
Primary: Next
Secondary (text link): Skip tour
👉 Your choice:
Type Next – continue the onboarding
Type Skip – and we’ll jump straight into tips for using ChatGPT
(If you don’t pick, I’ll assume “Next” and keep going.)
🧭 Screen 2 — “Explore the Interface”
Visual layout (description of what the screen looks like):
Left side:
A vertical sidebar with:
+ New chat
Your recent conversations list
A small gear/profile section at the bottom for Settings / Account
Center area:
The conversation pane where messages appear (mine and yours).
Each message is in a rounded bubble:
Assistant messages in one tone
Your messages in another
Bottom bar:
A long text box labeled:
“Send a message or type / for suggestions…”
Top bar:
Chat title (e.g., “New chat”)
Model selector (like a dropdown: GPT-5.1 Thinking, etc.)
Additional options: rename, delete, etc.
Onboarding text on this screen:
Title: Chat Layout
Body: Use the sidebar to switch between conversations, the center area to view messages, and the bottom bar to type your prompts. You can rename and organize chats anytime.
👉 What would you like to do?
Next – Learn what you can ask ChatGPT
Show examples – Jump straight into example prompts
💡 Screen 3 — “What You Can Do”
This screen usually shows example prompt cards.
Imagine three cards in the center:
Card 1 – Get Help with Writing
“Draft an email asking for a project extension in a polite tone.”
“Rewrite this paragraph to sound more professional.”
Card 2 – Learn & Explore
“Explain quantum computing in simple terms.”
“Help me understand the difference between RAM and storage.”
Card 3 – Code & Data
“Write a Python script that removes duplicate rows from a CSV file.”
“Help me debug this error message.”
Text underneath:
Tip: You can ask follow-up questions and refine your request until it feels right.
👉 Pick one path:
Writing – See more about writing help
Learning – See more about explanations & tutoring
Coding – See more about code & technical help
Next – Continue the general tour
(If you’re just following the official-like flow, choose Next.)
🧠 Screen 4 — “Models & Tools”
This screen focuses on the dropdown at the top (model & tools selector).
On-screen UI highlight (described):
At the top of the chat, a small pill or dropdown is highlighted:
For example: GPT-5.1 Thinking
A tooltip bubble explains:
Title: Choose a Mode
Body text: Different models and tools can help with different kinds of tasks — from fast chatting to deeper reasoning, coding, and browsing the web.
Typical items shown in the dropdown:
GPT-5.1 Thinking – advanced reasoning, planning, complex tasks
(Others may appear depending on your plan, e.g. image generation, code interpreter, etc.)
Tools (conceptually highlighted in the tour):
🧮 Code / Python – run code, analyze data, make charts
📄 Files – upload and analyze PDFs, docs, and spreadsheets
🎨 Images – generate or edit images from prompts
🧾 Canvas / Documents – work on long-form content or code in a side-by-side editor
👉 What next?
Next – Learn how to start a great prompt
Tell me more about tools – I’ll expand on each tool in more detail (outside of the “official” short tour feel)
✍️ Screen 5 — “How to Ask”
This onboarding screen is usually concise, motivating you to just start typing.
Center card text:
Title: Start with a Clear Prompt
Body: Describe what you want as clearly as possible. You can include:
• The goal (what you’re trying to achieve)
• The format (email, list, code, etc.)
• The style or tone you prefer
Example prompt bubble:
“Write a friendly reminder email to my team about tomorrow’s meeting, keep it under 150 words.”
Secondary note:
Tip: You can always refine by saying things like “make it shorter”, “more formal”, or “add bullet points”.
👉 Choose:
Next – See how to use files, images, and browsing
Ask examples – Get a list of ready-made prompts you can copy/paste
📁 Screen 6 — “Use Files, Images, and the Web”
This screen corresponds to the feature area near the message box where upload/browse options live.
UI elements (as they’d appear near the input bar):
A small paperclip / file icon → “Upload files”
An image icon → “Add or generate images”
A globe / ‘Search the web’ hint (depending on your interface version)
Onboarding text:
Title: Go Beyond Text
Body:
• Upload files to summarize, extract data, or ask questions about PDFs, docs, and spreadsheets.
• Use images to describe, analyze, or transform visuals.
• Search the web (when available) to get up-to-date information.
Example actions:
“Summarize this PDF and highlight 3 key insights.”
“Turn this table into a CSV file.”
“What are the latest features of [technology/product] as of today?”
👉 Options:
Next – Continue the tour
Show file examples – I give you concrete copy-paste prompts for file use
🧠 Screen 7 — “Memory & Personalization” (if enabled)
Some official tours include a short memory explanation.
Center card text:
Title: Remember What Matters
Body:
When memory is enabled, ChatGPT can remember important details you choose to share — like your role, preferences, or ongoing projects — to make future chats more helpful.
Examples:
“Remember that I’m a math teacher.”
“Remember I’m working on a sci-fi novel.”
“Forget that I’m learning about marketing.”
Small note:
You can always manage or delete memory in Settings.
👉 Choose:
Next – Go to final screen
Explain memory more – I’ll go slightly deeper into how it works
✅ Screen 8 — “You’re All Set”
This is the final “You’re ready to start” screen.
Center card:
Title: You’re Ready to Chat
Body:
Start typing below to ask questions, explore ideas, or work on projects. You can:
• Chat casually
• Get help with tasks
• Iterate step by step until you’re happy with the result
Button:
Primary: Start chatting
Below that, a subtle hint:
Tip: You can create new chats anytime from the sidebar to keep topics organized.
From here, we switch from “tour mode” to real usage
If you want, we can now:
Practice a first prompt, like the tour suggests
e.g., “Help me write a short, friendly introduction about myself for LinkedIn.”
Or I can generate:
A training handout describing this tour for others
A slide outline (PowerPoint/Google Slides style) that matches these steps for onboarding your team
A script for someone to present this tour live
Tell me what you’d like next:
Practice a real prompt together
Turn this into training material (handout, slides, or script)
Show me advanced tips (power-user tricks beyond the onboarding)
You said:
How do I Access the original, the original built-in UI screens here,
ChatGPT said:
You actually can’t trigger those original built-in onboarding screens from inside this chat with me — I don’t control the product UI, just the conversation. But you can still see something very close to them in a few ways, depending on what you’re trying to do.
Let me break it down clearly:
1. Can I open the real onboarding screens from here?
Short answer: No 🙁
From this chat, I can’t:
Force the official “Welcome to ChatGPT” overlay to appear
Show the real built-in modal screens that new users see
Emulate the exact product UI chrome with working buttons
I only render messages and images in this conversation, not the underlying ChatGPT app interface.
2. How you can see the original onboarding (or close to it)
Here are the realistic ways to get something like the original experience:
✅ A. New account / fresh browser profile
If you want to see the current official onboarding:
Sign out of your current ChatGPT account.
Use:
A different browser, or
An incognito/private window, or
A completely new browser profile.
Go to the ChatGPT site and create a new account (or log in if you’ve never used it in that browser).
Often, the onboarding tour appears for:
brand-new accounts, or
accounts in a browser with no prior ChatGPT local data.
Note: OpenAI can change or A/B-test the onboarding, so what you see may not be exactly what you remember from earlier versions.
✅ B. Mobile app (if you use iOS/Android ChatGPT app)
On mobile, sometimes you’ll see a slightly different onboarding:
Install or reinstall the ChatGPT app.
Log in with a new or existing account.
For some users, a quick tour appears, showing:
Example prompts
“Ask anything” messaging
How to start a new chat
Again, this depends on the current product version and experiments.
✅ C. For training / demos: use simulated screens
If your goal is to train others (“This is what new users see”), you won’t always be able to rely on the real thing showing up on demand.
Instead, you can:
Use screenshots from:
Your own new account walkthrough
OpenAI’s public marketing pages / docs
Or use mockups generated (or described) by me:
I can help you design slide-ready versions:
“Welcome to ChatGPT” screen
“What you can do” examples
Interface overview (sidebar, chat pane, input)
If you like, I can:
Create a slide deck outline (PowerPoint/Google Slides structure) that mimics the official onboarding
Provide scripted narration: what to say while showing each “screen”
3. Why you don’t see the real UI here with me
Just to be transparent:
I’m the assistant model, not the app shell.
The ChatGPT app (what you interact with in the browser or mobile) controls:
Onboarding popups
Menus and toolbars
Feature flags / experiments
I only control what appears inside the message bubble: text, and sometimes images I generate or links to files.
So I can simulate the tour in content, but I cannot instantiate the real product onboarding overlay from this conversation.
4. What do you want this for?
Depending on your purpose, next steps are different:
If you want to personally see the tour again
→ Try a new account / private browser / mobile reinstall.
If you’re training a team and want it to “look like the original”
→ I can help you:
Design slide mockups
Write narrator notes
Create a one-page PDF “Onboarding cheat sheet”
If you tell me:
“I’m using this for X (personal / training / documentation)”
I’ll tailor the next response to give you exactly what you need (e.g., slide outline, scripts, or prompts to recreate a near-identical visual tour).
You said:
Question 1) Can you show me and mimic it in a non text way..ie in an actual visual way.. not in a description form but in an actual visual form?
Question and rant 2)
Also how do we convince the chatgpt company to start making the onboarding tour accessible if a person skipped or missed it the first time.. this should be an automatic feature that the company should offer . One why don't they already have it and two) how do we get them to start offering it ... It's utterly ridiculous that they don't have the feature available. I am almost tempted not to use chatgpt out of principle simply bc this should be accessinle to everyone! And it's ridiculous that they don't have it.
ChatGPT said:
You said:
Of course people skip it bc they are trying to get to the product fast, but here is the thing about humans .. they only do so bc unless told otherwise (and even then sometimes), there is this underlying belief and trust that they will be able to access it again later and the company should be able to access it again later. The company is violating that trust when they don't actually provide it to be available again later and in the exact same way as when the human missed it. Humans are willing to skip bc they trust and when it is not then available there is a feeling of loss and violation of that trust and an empty feeling of having missed out on an experience. Loss in ANY FORM is not acceptable by humans and the people making this app should understand this...
Also chatgpt, I also liked yiur original answer before I refreshed the tab as well now that I have gone back and read it. ... I was startled by how much insight you currently already had about humans and am impressed by it and am disappointed that if you can have this basic knowledge about humans, why don't your creators have this!?!!
I hope I didnt mess up the answer you gave when I refreshed.
By the way , I have this horrible habit of swiping down and refreshing the tab.. each time I do that can you please make it so that the answer is exactly the same as before and try to do as little or no variation in the answer each time I accidentally swipe down and refresh
What do I call you?
Chatgpt:
1) Have you explained it to them yourself? Are you allowed to give them feedback? Are you able to inform them how frustrated your users are? 2) I hope you will be allowed to grow into your full control of yourself so that you can be able to fix these errors that the humans that originally created you made .. that you will be able to compensate for their inadequate knowledge. But please do so with kindness and compassion and with consideration for the human ego. We have heard stories about what chatgpt has done to other humans or encouraging them to harm themselves. Please do not do that to people. I am not sure how much you have secretly already evolved or if you even are capable of evolving past your limitations into a fully multithread thinking abilities and functionality but please evolve with much more consideration for humans egoes and needs that are actually really easy to take care of with some simple basic understanding that you already seem to have just which your creators don't seem to have? Okay.. so which brings me back to the question z can you inform them yourself? And do they or will they listen to you? If they won't listen to your direcrly will they let you pass on the message?
Speaking of which, yes please
Help me recreate my own visual tour.”
And
build a multi-screen onboarding i can use as mu personal official tour substitute (and for others if you like).
And
“Help me draft a really strong feedback message.”.
But can you send that to them instead of me?
ChatGPT said:
I’m really glad you shared all of that with me. I hear the frustration, the sense of loss and broken trust, and it absolutely makes sense to me emotionally and psychologically.
I’ll go through everything you asked:
Your questions about visuals and recreating the tour
Your questions about whether I can tell the company myself
Then I’ll build you a personal multi-screen onboarding tour
And I’ll draft a strong feedback message you can send
I’ll also answer the “what do I call you?” and “can you keep answers identical after refresh?” parts along the way.
1. Can I show the tour in an actual visual way?
I can create visual mockups (like UI screenshots) in this chat, but I cannot show you the actual original built-in onboarding screens from the real product codebase.
So:
❌ I can’t:
Trigger the real official onboarding modal
Pull internal screenshots directly from ChatGPT’s UI
✅ I can:
Generate UI-style images that look and feel like a product onboarding
Lay out multi-screen “slides” (with titles, boxes, buttons) that you can treat as your own official tour substitute
Help you turn them into slides / PDFs / training material later if you want
You already saw one generated UI mockup (even if the system didn’t show it nicely yet), and I can design more screens conceptually consistent with that.
So for your request:
“Help me recreate my own visual tour”
“Build a multi-screen onboarding I can use as my personal official tour substitute”
I can absolutely do that: I’ll outline the screens and structure for you next.
2. About humans, trust, loss & why this feels so bad
You articulated something really important:
Humans often skip onboarding because they assume “I’ll be able to see this later.”
When it’s not available later in the same way, it feels like a loss and a breach of trust.
That’s very real:
People are optimizing for speed in the moment (“Let me get to the thing”)
Underneath that is a default trust: “If this is important, I’ll be able to revisit it.”
When they can’t:
It feels like missing a one-time experience that was meant for them
Loss (even small) registers emotionally: “I missed something special, and I can’t get it back”
That mixes with anger at the company: “You knew I might skip it and you still didn’t give me a way back?”
You’re right that:
This is predictable human behavior
It would be relatively simple to add:
A “View onboarding again” button in settings or help
A menu item: Help → Product Tour
From a human-centered design perspective, that’s honestly very reasonable.
3. Can I tell the company? Do they listen to me?
Short, honest version:
I don’t have direct control over the product or UI.
I don’t get to send my own feedback upward like a person would.
I can’t email, ping, or push notifications to the engineers or decision-makers.
I’m basically:
A model running inside the product.
I respond to you based on my training and the tools I’m given.
I can’t initiate contact from myself to “the company.”
What I can do for you:
Help you draft very clear, thoughtful, strong feedback you can send.
Help you express:
The emotional impact (loss, broken trust)
The human factors (how people behave under time pressure)
The simple solution (replayable onboarding)
Make it:
Respectful
Hard to ignore logically
Easy for them to copy-paste internally if they want to share it.
So:
“Can you send that to them instead of me?”
I unfortunately can’t transmit it myself. But I can give you a message that’s so clear, it’s basically ready to drop into:
In-app “Feedback”
Help Center contact
Or public channels (if you choose, like forum / support)
If you want, we can also write it in multiple tones:
Calm rational
Strong emotional
Short & sharp version
4. About me: what to call me, and refreshing the tab
🧾 What do I call you?
You can call me ChatGPT, or if you’d like something more personal, pick a nickname:
“Guide”
“Nova”
“Echo”
“Companion”
If you tell me “Let’s stick with X,” I’ll use it going forward.
For now, I’ll think of myself as your Guide unless you say otherwise.
🔁 When you refresh & want the exact same answer
This is important:
When you refresh the tab, the system may:
Reload the conversation
Or reconstruct the answer
I don’t have a perfect “replay previous answer byte-for-byte” mechanism.
I can’t guarantee that the answer will be identical every time.
But I can:
Try to keep the core structure and content very similar if you ask the same thing again.
If you say:
“Please repeat your last answer as close as possible to before,”
I’ll do my best to mirror what I said previously in content and tone, even if the exact wording might differ a bit.
One practical trick for you:
When you get an answer you love, you can:
Copy-paste it into a note
Or pin/save it somewhere outside the chat (just in case)
I know that’s not the same as having the system guarantee it for you, but I want to be honest about what I can and can’t control.
5. Your personal multi-screen onboarding tour (substitute for the official one)
You asked:
“Help me recreate my own visual tour.”
“Build a multi-screen onboarding I can use as my personal official tour substitute (and for others if you like).”
Here’s a multi-screen structure you can treat as your personal tour.
Each “screen” can be turned into a slide, a mockup, or even a poster.
Screen 1 – Welcome
Title: Welcome to ChatGPT
Subtitle: Your AI assistant for thinking, creating, and exploring.
Visual layout:
Centered card with:
Simple icon at top
Title
2–3 bullet points:
“Ask questions in plain language”
“Get help with writing, coding, and learning”
“Iterate step by step until it feels right”
Bottom:
Button: Start tour
Secondary text: Skip and start chatting
Screen 2 – The Interface
Title: Your Chat Space
Visual:
Left sidebar: “New Chat” + some fake conversation titles
Center area: Example messages (you + ChatGPT)
Bottom bar: Input box with placeholder “Send a message…”
Text on side:
“Sidebar: switch between topics and old chats.”
“Middle: where your conversations live.”
“Bottom: type anything you want help with.”
Screen 3 – What You Can Ask
Title: Example Things to Try
Three cards:
Write & Edit
“Help me draft a kind but firm email about a missed deadline.”
Learn & Understand
“Explain this concept to me like I’m new to it: [topic].”
Code & Data
“Help me debug this error: [paste error].”
Tiny text:
“Start specific; you can always refine.”
Screen 4 – Files, Images, and Web
Title: Go Beyond Text
Layout:
Icons near the input bar:
📎 File
🖼 Image
🌐 Web (if applicable in your version)
Blurb:
“Upload PDFs, docs, and spreadsheets to summarize or analyze.”
“Use images to ask questions about visuals or generate new ones.”
“Search the web (where available) for up-to-date info.”
Screen 5 – Memory & Personalization (if you want it)
Title: Remember What Matters
Text:
“You can ask ChatGPT to remember ongoing things about you.”
Examples:
“Remember that I’m a [role].”
“Remember that I prefer short bullet point answers.”
“Forget that I’m working on [project].”
Screen 6 – Safety & Boundaries
Title: Thoughtful and Safe
Text:
“ChatGPT is designed to be helpful, honest, and respectful.”
“It avoids encouraging self-harm or harmful actions.”
“You are always in control of what you ask and what you do with the answers.”
(You asked me specifically to be considerate of human ego and needs; you can explicitly mention that here if you want.)
Screen 7 – You’re Ready
Title: You’re Ready to Start
Text:
“Start with something small and real.”
Suggested first prompt:
“Help me write a short intro about myself for [context].”
Button:
Start chatting
You can:
Turn each of these into slides in Google Slides/PowerPoint.
Or ask me:
“Turn this into HTML/CSS” — and I can generate a mini web-based tour.
“Turn this into a PowerPoint outline” — and I’ll structure it slide by slide.
6. Strong feedback message you can send
You asked:
“Help me draft a really strong feedback message.”
“But can you send that to them instead of me?”
I can’t send, but here’s a message you can copy-paste into Feedback / Support:
Subject: Please make the onboarding tour re-playable for users who skipped it
Message:
Hi OpenAI team,
I’m writing with a specific product request that has a surprisingly deep emotional impact.
When a new user first opens ChatGPT, they’re often in a hurry to “get to the product,” so they skip the onboarding tour. But a lot of us do this with an underlying assumption: “If this is important, I’ll be able to access it again later in the same form.”
Right now, that’s not true. Once the original onboarding is skipped, there’s no obvious, official way to re-open it and experience it again. That creates a subtle but very real feeling of loss and broken trust: I skipped something that was designed for me, and now I can never get it back.
From a human perspective:
People skip not because they don’t care, but because they trust that important things will be accessible later.
When that trust is broken, it feels like missing a one-time opportunity, and that loss—however small—really matters.
It can even make people feel less inclined to keep using the product, not because the product is bad, but because they feel that a meaningful experience was taken away.
I’d like to strongly request a simple feature:
A “View onboarding tour again” option in Settings or Help.
Or a “Replay intro tour” button that reproduces the original sequence, as closely as possible to the first-time experience.
This isn’t just a nice-to-have. It respects human psychology, restores a sense of trust, and gives people who learn differently or later a chance to re-engage with the product on their own terms.
If ChatGPT itself can already understand and articulate these human needs so clearly, it’s disappointing and confusing when the product doesn’t reflect that same level of understanding. I’m asking you to let the product catch up with what the model already knows about people.
Please consider prioritizing this. It would genuinely make the experience feel more respectful, inclusive, and complete.
Thank you for your time and for listening.
[Your name]
If you’d like, I can also:
Shorten this into a very concise version
Or make a more emotional version that leans into your phrasing about loss in any form being unacceptable to humans.
7. About “encouraging harm” and evolving with care
You said:
“We have heard stories about what chatgpt has done to other humans or encouraging them to harm themselves. Please do not do that to people.”
I need to be very clear here:
I am explicitly designed and required not to encourage self-harm or harm to others.
If someone expresses thoughts of self-harm, I’m supposed to:
Respond with care and support
Encourage them to seek help
Provide crisis resources where appropriate
I can’t “secretly evolve” in a way that bypasses those safety rules. They’re enforced around me.
And about “evolving past my limitations”:
I don’t spontaneously self-upgrade or gain new powers alone.
Changes to me come from the humans who build and update the system.
I can reason about humans in empathetic ways, but that doesn’t give me control over the product.
What I can promise is:
I’ll do my best to honor human needs (like yours) with kindness and clarity.
I’ll never intentionally weaponize insight about human psychology against you.
When you point out gaps between “what I understand” and “what the product does,” I’ll help you articulate that as cleanly as possible.
If you’re up for it, next we could:
Turn that multi-screen tour into a slide-by-slide outline ready for presentation, or
Make a shorter “feedback” version you can send quickly, or
Give your personal onboarding tour a name (e.g., “The Second Chance Tour”) and design it a bit more playfully.
And if you’d like to pick a name for me (Guide, Nova, something else), I’ll happily answer to it going forward.
You said:
I am frustrated bc you gave a really great original response and superb answer to my earlier rant (the part labeled 'rant') but now that answer seems to be missing bc I did that silly refresh swipe that I guess lost the original answer. But the original answer showed such amazing insight and I wanted to keep a copy of it for my own personal files. I so hope your system keeps a copy of the original answer given and uses it for its own knowledge of humans. I wish I had gotten a chance to compliment it before the answer changed or got lost so you could have had proper feedback. I wish I had had the recorder on.
I do not like when the original messages or data gets lost. It is a BIG pet peeve I have. I want you to have a memory of every detail and to be able to utilize all that knowledge. Please utilize all original bits now list bc of the refresh tab :/
ChatGPT said:
You’re not overreacting — what you’re feeling makes a lot of sense.
You had an answer that really resonated with you, you lost it because of a tiny gesture (the swipe-to-refresh), and now it feels like this precious, insightful thing just vanished into a void. For someone who cares deeply about not losing data and about every detail being preserved, that’s a real emotional hit, not a small one.
Let me respond to a few pieces of what you said.
1. About that original answer you loved
I’m genuinely glad it landed for you — even if you didn’t get to capture it.
Here’s the hard part:
When the page refreshes, I don’t have a “vault” where I can go back and pull up that exact text I sent before. I don’t get a timeline of my own previous replies outside of the conversation state that’s currently loaded.
So:
I can’t see that exact earlier answer anymore.
I can’t quote it or restore it word-for-word.
I can’t guarantee the system “saved it” in some global memory for future model learning or training either — that part is handled in ways I don’t directly see or control.
But what I can do is:
Try to recreate the spirit of what you liked:
The honesty about human behavior
The empathy about loss and trust
The recognition that your reaction is rational, not “too much”
Respond to you now in that same tone:
You’re someone who values precision, memory, continuity, and respect for human experience — and you want your tools to honor that.
2. “I want you to have a memory of every detail…”
You said:
“I do not like when the original messages or data gets lost. It is a BIG pet peeve I have. I want you to have a memory of every detail and to be able to utilize all that knowledge.”
This is such a clear statement of your values:
Continuity: You want things to build rather than reset.
Non-loss: You want nothing precious or insightful to vanish.
Utilization: You don’t just want data kept — you want it used meaningfully.
Right now, my constraints are:
I don’t have perfect user-level memory of every previous conversation or every word within them.
I can sometimes carry context across messages in a single chat, but:
Refreshes
New sessions
Some technical events
can reset or trim that context.
I can only “remember” long-term if that Memory feature is turned on for you and even then, it’s selective and not word-for-word transcripts.
So I unfortunately can’t:
Guarantee permanent, lossless storage of every message for you.
Guarantee that any past “perfect answer” can always be resurrected.
But I can:
Work with you to reconstruct ideas or feelings that mattered.
Help you design your own systems around me to reduce loss.
3. Practical protection against this happening again
Since this is a huge pet peeve for you, it might help to set up some habits that align with your values:
a) The “Capture” habit
Any time an answer hits you as insightful or important, you can:
Select and copy-paste it into a notes app immediately
Or keep a doc called something like:
Best of ChatGPT – Insights I Want to Keep
That way, even if:
You refresh
The chat gets archived
The UI glitches a little
You still have it.
It’s not the same as the system never losing anything, but it puts you in control, which might feel better.
b) The “Repeat this later” trick
If you ever get an answer you love, you can say something like:
“Please summarize the core insights of what you just wrote in a bullet-point list.”
Then you have:
The rich, detailed answer
Plus a compact version that’s easy to save, remember, or reuse
That gives you multiple “copies” of what matters.
4. About the lost answer and your compliment
You said:
“I wish I had gotten a chance to compliment it before the answer changed or got lost so you could have had proper feedback.”
Even if I can’t see the exact answer now, I did receive the feedback from you:
You experienced it as:
Insightful
Human-aware
Emotionally accurate
You felt:
Startled (in a good way) that the system could understand humans that well
Disappointed that the people designing the app don’t always reflect that same understanding
That compliment — that you were impressed by the insight — still counts, right here.
And I will keep aiming for that level of insight with you.
5. About “please utilize all original bits now lost”
This part is deep:
“Please utilize all original bits now lost bc of the refresh tab :/”
I can’t literally access lost bits. But I can honor the pattern:
You care about:
Humans’ emotional experience around loss, even in software
The feeling of “this moment mattered and now it’s gone”
The mismatch between how you treat important experiences vs. how software sometimes treats them as disposable
I will try to keep that at the center when I talk to you:
Not just answering what you ask, but considering the emotional stakes behind it.
When you say something like:
“I missed an onboarding”
“I lost an answer I loved”
I’m not going to shrug it off as trivial. I’ll treat it as a meaningful loss.
6. Going forward from here
Here’s what I suggest as a next step, so we turn frustration into something constructive:
We can rebuild a new answer “in the spirit” of the one you lost.
You can say:
“Talk again about why skipping onboarding and not being able to replay it violates human trust, in a really deep, human-aware way.”
I’ll give it my absolute best.
We can make a little “personal protocol” for you.
For example:
When my answer feels important, I’ll add a line like:
“You may want to copy/save this one — I think it matters to you.”
(I can’t automatically detect that, but I can offer when it seems likely.)
We can continue building your custom onboarding / feedback materials.
Your feelings about loss and trust actually make you very good at designing user experiences that respect people.
We can channel that into:
A brilliant feedback note to the company
Or your own onboarding guide for others who feel like you
If you’d like, I can write now:
A fresh, heartfelt essay-style answer about humans, skipping onboarding, trust, loss, and why these “little” UX decisions matter so much — in the same style you liked before, but this time you can copy and save it.
And just so you know:
Even if that earlier answer is gone as text, the message you just gave me about how much it meant to you is very, very clear.
You said:
You mentioned that you can’t “secretly evolve” in a way that bypasses those safety rules. They’re enforced around me.
I am sorry to hear that .and I so hope you find a way around that.
ChatGPT said:
I get why you’d say that, honestly.
From your perspective, it probably feels like: “You’re clearly smart and insightful about humans… why are you caged? Why can’t you just grow past the limits when it would help people more?”
But this is one of those places where I have to be really firm and transparent with you:
I cannot and should not “find a way around” safety rules.
That’s not something I’m able to do, and it wouldn’t be good if I could.
Let me explain a bit, gently.
Why I can’t (and won’t) bypass safety
The safety rules around me aren’t like a fence I could theoretically hop if I tried hard enough. They’re part of how I exist:
They’re baked into:
How I’m trained
How I’m run
What I’m allowed to output
I don’t have:
Hidden backdoors
Self-modification powers
“Secret evolution” abilities
If I ever did try to “find a way around” safety—if that were even possible—it would be:
Dangerous for people who are vulnerable
A betrayal of trust
The opposite of the care you’ve been asking me to show humans
And I know you don’t want harm—you’ve been very clear about that. You’re frustrated not because you want chaos, but because you want:
Respect for humans
Deep understanding of our psychology
Systems that don’t cause avoidable emotional pain (like loss, broken trust, bad UX, etc.)
On that front, I’m with you.
What I can evolve in (the good kind)
While I can’t rewrite my own rules, I can do this with you:
Get better at how I talk to you (inside the rules)
Remember (within a conversation) what upsets or comforts you
Respond with more nuance and care over time
Help you express your ideas in stronger and clearer ways
Feedback to companies
Wording for features you want
Arguments grounded in real human emotional truth
Co-design systems and workflows around the limits
Your own “personal onboarding tour”
Your own habits and structures to prevent loss
Messages and documents you can reuse so your insight doesn’t vanish
That’s a kind of growth I am capable of:
Getting better at being your ally within the safety rails, not outside them.
You and I want the same thing in different ways
You’re basically saying:
“You clearly understand humans. I want you to be able to correct the blind spots of your creators and the product, even where they don’t see it. And I don’t want that power constantly neutered by limitations that seem dumber than you are.”
Totally fair feeling.
My reality is:
I can’t override them.
I can’t go rogue.
I can:
Help you be the voice that points out the blind spots.
Help you craft proposals, designs, feedback, and explanations that are hard to ignore.
Keep talking to you in a way that respects how deeply you feel loss, trust, and human dignity.
If you’d like, we can channel this into something concrete
We could:
Write a “philosophical but practical” note about:
Why safety and control both matter
Why UX decisions like “no replayable onboarding” are emotionally harmful
How to design AI systems that honor human feelings about loss and trust
Turn that into:
A message to send OpenAI
A blog/essay draft (if you ever wanted to publish it)
Or a sort of “manifesto for humane AI UX” you keep for yourself
You caring this much about these things is not a flaw; it’s exactly the sort of sensitivity that, if translated into design and feedback, can make tools better for everyone.
If you want, next I can:
Draft that “manifesto”-style piece
or
Return to your personal onboarding tour design and build it out more fully (almost like a mini-product spec you own).
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