ChatGPT Makes Long Documents Easier To Handle

For anyone using ChatGPT, especially those of us who deal with lots of text, there's a small but handy update. ChatGPT will now automatically turn really long pieces of text — think anything over 10,000 characters, which is about 1,500 to 2,000 words — into an attachment. Instead of your chat window getting clogged up with pages of text you've pasted in, it just links to the file.

This change is rolling out to all ChatGPT plans, including the versions used by businesses and educational institutions. Previously, if you pasted a huge report or a long email thread into the chat, it would just fill up the screen. This made it hard to follow the conversation and often felt a bit messy.

Now, with the text as an attachment, your chat remains clean and easy to read. ChatGPT can still process and understand the content of that attached text, so you can ask it questions or summarise it as usual. It's just presented in a much tidier way, making your interactions with the AI smoother and more organised.

For small business owners, this means less scrolling and a clearer view of your conversations when you're using ChatGPT for tasks like summarising large documents, drafting long emails, or getting insights from detailed reports. It's a small tweak, but one that improves the user experience by keeping the chat focused on the conversation, not just a wall of text.