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AI Briefing — OpenAI debuts ChatGPT research preview

OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a free research preview on 30 November 2022, exposing a conversational interface for GPT-3.5 and gathering feedback on safety, latency, and alignment behaviors.

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OpenAI released ChatGPT as a research preview on 30 November 2022, offering a conversational interface on GPT-3.5 to collect public feedback on usability and safety. The preview highlighted improvements in instruction-following and context retention while flagging known limitations such as hallucinations and biased outputs.

Product, legal, and security teams should note the rapid user adoption that followed and prepare governance patterns—prompt logging, content filters, and data handling controls—before enabling similar assistants in production environments.

  • OpenAI launch blog announces the ChatGPT research preview on 30 November 2022 and describes safety mitigations and known limitations.
  • ChatGPT FAQ outlines data usage, feedback collection, and privacy considerations during the preview period.
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