[Introduction] Besides shopping, food delivery, music streaming, and video watching, even ChatGPT now has an annual report! OpenAI will summarize your unique year-end review based on your conversations over the past year. If you've used ChatGPT heavily this year, it might understand you better than other apps.
Have your WeChat Moments been flooded with annual reports from various apps these past few days?
Everyone is pretending to casually show off their "niche and elegant" taste.
Just when you're about to block out these "cyber Versailles," OpenAI, with its thick eyebrows and big eyes, unexpectedly joins the fun.
On Monday, ChatGPT quietly launched a new feature – "Your Year with ChatGPT" .
That's right, even AI will be reviewing how many stupid things you've done this year.
How can I check my "Cyber Diagnosis Certificate"?
Although OpenAI's latest antics are currently only being tested in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, that doesn't stop us from experiencing this massive "socially awkward" scene.
It's very simple to obtain: just enter the following phrase in the App's chat window: "Show me my year with ChatGPT."
Note that this is only available to users of the free, Pro, and Plus versions.
If you're using a company-provided enterprise account, sorry, OpenAI has kindly blocked it for you—probably to prevent you from sending confidential data like "how much work AI did for you this year" to your boss, which could lead to your immediate job loss.
AI-generated criticism is the most lethal.
Unlike music streaming apps that only shower you with compliments about your "unique taste," ChatGPT's annual summary is characterized by "seemingly objective, but actually ambiguous."
The report begins by presenting you with a poem (after all, they work on language models; they need to make a good impression), followed by three soul-searching blows:
- How many messages did you send?
- How many times did you chat in total?
- Which day do you talk the most?
The most outrageous thing is that it also counts an extremely tricky statistic: how many em-dashes you used in a year.
You see, OpenAI itself knows that when we chat with AI, we always like to use that kind of hesitant, fragmented syntax—as if by adding a few more dashes, AI can understand our non-existent deeper meaning through the screen.
Next, it will analyze your "chatting style".
Your annual awards
In addition to cold, hard data, ChatGPT also created an "annual award" that resembles a personality test.
In terms of user profiles, I am categorized as "The Engineer," a title held by 19.1% of users.
The explanation is: " Design reliable and executable systems; utilize ChatGPT to plan workflows, business processes, and step-by-step solutions. "
The report will also generate a pixel-art annual artwork.
Although OpenAI is pushing video models like Sora 2, which are comparable to Hollywood blockbusters, they still opted for a retro pixel style in their year-end review.
I had my fortune told for 2026.
To add a bit of interactivity (or perhaps to mask the lack of functionality), the report ended with a "fog-wiping" mini-game.
The screen is covered with a layer of "fog" that looks like snow. You have to wipe it off with your hand to see the AI's predictions for you in 2026.
If you're not satisfied, you can refresh the page to get a different one.
This "cyber fortune telling" vibe made me think for a moment that OpenAI's product managers had jumped ship from some domestic astrology apps.
To be honest, in an era where even food delivery apps tell you "how many times you've ordered mala tang this year," ChatGPT's report seems remarkably concise.
Compared to music streaming apps that tell you "how many nights your favorite songs have kept you company," ChatGPT's data is actually more private and more authentic.
Music is the mask we present to the outside world, while conversations with AI often reveal our most genuine confusion, our most ignorant moments, and those foolish questions we wouldn't even dare to ask close friends.
The report concludes: After countless ideas, questions, and explorations, you have found a place to organize your thoughts, which is no small feat.
Perhaps this is the new normal in the AI era.
We used to confide in our diaries; now we ask questions of AI.
We are not always looking for answers; sometimes, we just need an absolutely patient, always-on listener to soothe our restless curiosity and anxiety.
Reference: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2003190103729144224
This article is from the WeChat official account "New Intelligence" , edited by Allen, and published with authorization from 36Kr.
