With interventions by Marcus Burkhardt and Hendrik Bender. 

Since OpenAI introduced GPT Builder at the end of 2023, users can create customized versions of ChatGPT. These task-specific GPTs can be exchanged and sold via the affiliated shop, with the underlying instructions and prompts becoming invisible. By now more than 1 million different GPTs exist on the ChatGPT, ranging from travel assistants to relationship advisors. 
The aim of the workshop is to ask what difference GPTs make? On the one hand, they are based on and operate with the same general purpose large language model. On the other hand, they differ largely in their capacities as more or less special purpose applications. This leads to the question of system prompts that are used to specify, modulate or “program” language models in practice. Drawing on a dataset of extracted system prompts we will engage with the anatomy of custom GPTs. We will engage in a collaborative close reading to inquire into the distinctiveness and uniqueness of the customized GPTs.

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