ChatGPT launches its version of Spotify Wrapped - how to get your year-end review

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• OpenAI launched the Your Year with ChatGPT experience. 
• You can see highlights and themes from your conversations.  
• You can only reference saved memories and chat history if you are signed up. 

With less than two weeks left in the year, OpenAI is launching a new recap experience called Your Year with ChatGPT, which provides insight into your interactions with the chatbot over the past year. 

The Spotify Wrapped-like experience, launched on Monday, presents users with high-level themes of their ChatGPT interactions, as shown in the image at the top of the article. OpenAI said the experience was "designed to be lightweight, privacy-forward, and user-controlled."

It is available to all users, including those with free accounts. All users need to do is open ChatGPT on iOS, Android, or the web to have the experience automatically triggered. If it doesn't appear, users can trigger the experience themselves by asking ChatGPT for "Your Year with ChatGPT."

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There is a caveat. For the experience to work, you need to have had Reference saved memories and Reference chat history enabled. If you, like me, have these features disabled due to privacy concerns, you will receive an error message stating that you need to enable these features to access the recap, as it requires the ability to reference your past conversations. 

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If you used Temporary Chat, that content will also not be included within the recap experience. You can still turn Memory on and access your own personalized recap, but this may take some time to fully appear, as it needs content to reference. 

If you don't see it and have it turned on, it could be because the feature is still being rolled out to you, you haven't reached the minimum activity threshold, you are using a Team Enterprise or Education account, or you live in an unsupported country, OpenAI said. 

Beyond this experience, there are other ways you can learn about what ChatGPT knows about you. For example, people have been using simple prompts to get ChatGPT to provide them with an analysis of their character, chatting patterns, growth, and more. The more you talk with the chatbot, the more insightful the analysis will be, as it has more data on you.