Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT
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2 hours ago
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Here's hoping that it will return soon, as I really liked it.
brumar
1 hour ago
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After all, this "mode" was just a system prompt (last time I looked).
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tomrod
1 hour ago
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Can it be replicated by a user?
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shlewis
1 hour ago
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xeb/TheBigPromptLibrary/r...

I think this is pretty much the entirety of study mode. Never used it before but as long as there's no UI changes, yes, it's 100% replicable.

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box2
1 hour ago
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There used to be a “Custom GPT” feature which basically just creates a prompt wrapper with some extra functionality like being able to call web APIs for more data. Can’t seem to find that menu right now, but it would have easily replicated the study feature. Maybe it was limited to paid accounts only.
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AmmarSaleh50
54 minutes ago
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Yeah custom gpts are only for paid users. However u can create a new project under "Projects", name it, then when u create it, you can see on the top right the three dots button, click it, open project settings, and there u can place your system prompt under instructions. Every chat you start in that project would send those instructions as a system prompt to the model you are chatting with. so essentially "Study Mode" could be recreated with this approach, or at least it should.
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alexthehurst
56 minutes ago
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It’s still there, but the builder is only in the web UI.
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shivang2607
5 minutes ago
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Do people even used that ?
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utopiah
19 minutes ago
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Before this Sora, and before that large government contracts. I don't think they care so much for the random consumer anymore. They use anything and everyone for PR but they get closer to IPO they are focusing what actually might make them profitable.

TL;DR: bet on stuff being removed

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m-hodges
38 minutes ago
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I tried it a few times and always found it disappointing. It typically started off like a structured "lesson" but as I chatted with it, it would forget the syllabus is had proposed and we never "completed" the thing we set out to learn.
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CatDeveloper_
1 hour ago
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they do it with other stuff to i feel like they see how much users actually interact with those features and base their decsisoins kinda like how google owuld remove some features at random..
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foundermodus
1 hour ago
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What was the Study Mode? I never saw it.
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el_io
1 hour ago
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Haven't use 'Study Mode' in OpenAI, but can't you just ask it to act as a study coach or whatever you want it to be?
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altmanaltman
1 hour ago
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I remember videos with titles like "OPENAI CHANGED STUDYING COMPLETELY WITH THIS ONE SUPER UPDATE!" and obnoxious thumbnails on youtube when it was first launched. I guess studying changed it.
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ddtaylor
19 minutes ago
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Use DeArrow, it allows you to avoid most of that clickbait farming.
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danielbln
1 hour ago
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You have these grifter videos for everything, from OpenAI features to hot takes on the strait of Hormuz. These are best ignored entirely.
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altmanaltman
1 hour ago
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725764

Also discussed on HN. Yeah I can ignore them, but a lot of people watch those videos and fall for the grift (going by their views) and that's sad. It personally annoys me also when yt recommends them to me because it thinks I'm interested in software

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ziml77
45 minutes ago
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I make sure to hit not interested the second I see anything I very much don't want pop up in me feed. I don't want mine to drift towards the average feed of the lowest effort, sensationalist garbage.
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newswasboring
37 minutes ago
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Does this work? I've been doing that for some weeks now, nothing has changed about my home page.
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ok123456
55 minutes ago
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Gemini still has its study mode.
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jegudiel
50 minutes ago
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I used to enjoy studying with ChatGPT too. I was on their Plus plan.
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janpmz
1 hour ago
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I was concerned about big players offering the same functionality when building listendock.com, but maybe there is a place for specialized apps like that.
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