Skip to main content

ChatGPT just launched on Slack — here’s how to use it

The OpenAI ChatGPT chatbot is now available within the Slack communications platform, making it easier to ask the helpful tool questions or to retrieve information for you. It's in beta, for now, so you'll need to join the waitlist, but if you're already on it, or just want to get ready for when you're given approval, here's how to use ChatGPT on Slack.

Difficulty

Easy

Duration

10 minutes

How to sign up for ChatGPT on Slack

Since Slack's ChatGPT application is still in development, it's still considered a beta feature, so you'll have to sign up for the waitlist. Once given approval, you can then start using it within your own Slack workspace.

Step 1: Sign up for the ChatGPT app for Slack waitlist, here.

Step 2: You'll have a better chance of being accepted if you're part of a larger organization, or have some specific use in mind, but personal use is fine too.

Using ChatGPT in Slack.
Image used with permission by copyright holder

How to summarize conversations with ChatGPT on Slack

One of the most useful functions of ChatGPT on Slack is in summarizing conversations, so you can get up to speed with what's been discussed quickly and easily.

Step 1: Open your Slack app or the Slack web app, and select the workspace you want to access. Log in if necessary.

Step 2: Select the channel from the left-hand menu that you want to summarize, and then find the specific conversation thread, if needed.

Step 3: Hover over the conversation so that the reaction menu appears, then select the three-dot menu icon for more options.

Step 4: Select Summarize thread ChatGPT. ChatGPT will then give you a custom-written response that summarizes what has been said in the conversation so far.

How to draft responses with ChatGPT for Slack

ChatGPT can also be used to draft responses to questions or queries you receive.

Step 1: Open your Slack app or the Slack web app, and select the workspace you want to access. Login if necessary.

Step 2: Select the channel or person from the left-hand menu who you received a question from.

Step 3: Hover over the conversation so that the reaction menu appears, then select the three-dot menu icon for more options.

Step 4: Select Draft reply ChatGPT and ChatGPT will create a response for you. You can then edit it and send it when ready.

How to ask ChatGPT questions in Slack

ChatGPT's conversational chatbot is also built into the Slack app, and can answer all the same questions as the Bing and Edge integration.

Step 1: Open your Slack app or the Slack web app, and select the workspace you want to access. Log in if necessary.

Step 2: From the left-hand menu, select the ChatGPT application.

Step 3: Write your question as if you were talking to one of your colleagues, then send the message and wait for the response. It should come fairly quickly.

Editors' Recommendations

Jon Martindale
Jon Martindale is the Evergreen Coordinator for Computing, overseeing a team of writers addressing all the latest how to…
ChatGPT may soon moderate illegal content on sites like Facebook
A laptop screen shows the home page for ChatGPT, OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot.

GPT-4 -- the large language model (LLM) that powers ChatGPT Plus -- may soon take on a new role as an online moderator, policing forums and social networks for nefarious content that shouldn’t see the light of day. That’s according to a new blog post from ChatGPT developer OpenAI, which says this could offer “a more positive vision of the future of digital platforms.”

By enlisting artificial intelligence (AI) instead of human moderators, OpenAI says GPT-4 can enact “much faster iteration on policy changes, reducing the cycle from months to hours.” As well as that, “GPT-4 is also able to interpret rules and nuances in long content policy documentation and adapt instantly to policy updates, resulting in more consistent labeling,” OpenAI claims.

Read more
Zoom backpedals, says it will no longer use user content to train AI
A woman on a Zoom call.

Like everyone else, Zoom has added AI features to improve its app and videoconferencing service. We all love the ease and speed AI provides, but there are often concerns about the data used to train models, and Zoom has been at the center of the controversy. It's backpedaling now, saying it won't use user content to train its AI models.

News leaked in May 2022 that Zoom was working on emotion-sensing AI that could analyze faces in meetings. Beyond the potential for inaccurate analysis, the results could be discriminatory.

Read more
GPT-4.5 news: Everything we know so far about the next-generation language model
ChatGPT app running on an iPhone.

OpenAI's GPT-4 language model is considered by most to be the most advanced language model used to power modern artificial intelligences (AI). It's used in the ChatGPT chatbot to great effect, and other AIs in similar ways. But that's not the end of its development. As with GPT-3.5, a GPT-4.5 language model may well launch before we see a true next-generation GPT-5.

Here's everything we know about GPT-4.5 so far.

Read more