It’s alive!!!
I have created a GPT!!! Who knew that was a thing? To create one, you have to be in the paying tier – I am, at the lowest level, which is like £7 a month – but you can use somebody else’s if you’re in the free tier.
It’s regular old ChatGPT that you feed your special documents to. In my case, it’s a local history project and I uploaded documents I know haven’t been republished (and therefore AI wouldn’t have them). I won’t point to it, because it’s a little too close to my actual location.
Then you give it instructions for how it is to answer. Tell it what its purpose is. What its preferred online sources should be (you can also switch off its ability to surf the internet). What tone to take. Sample questions. It can have a name and an avatar, y’all.
I could feed it this whole blog and then let it answer questions in my voice. But I won’t do that because there are some seriously bad posts on my blog.
It can be entirely private, open to people who have the link, or open to everybody. The page for exploring other ones is here.
This would be a fantastic idea for someone writing a novel trying to keep character sheets straight. Family history. A complex non-fiction with original research. It’s a blast to play with.
Posted: June 18th, 2026 under personal.
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