I have had a ChatGPT plus account basically since it became availible. I subsequently had the opportunity to utilise ChatGPT in a team context, so I upgraded the account to a “teams” account, and agreed to pay the extra $5 per month, as I expected there to be some benefits.
As it happens, there is absolutely zero benefits to having a team account, and there are a number of drawbacks which aren’t documented anywhere.
Firstly, a “Shared workspace” is nothing like what the name suggests. I imagine most people would think it’s like a group-chat where multiple people can talk to the AI at once, with the conversation tracked.
This isn’t at all what’s offered.
On top of this, it’s more expensive, and with ChatGPT-4o, there aren’t even any material benefits in terms of rate limits
The other serious problems are:-
- You can no longer export your data
- You’re not elligable for early access to the voice chat features of GhatGPT4o,
- You’re not able to have the model train on your input. (I know most people don’t want this, if they’re wanting their conversations to remain confidential), but I do try to “work with” the AI when it does stupid things, by taking it through the process step-by-step. (I don’t know if this has ever been beneficial, but when I was using my Plus account, it seems as though the AI didn’t make the exact same mistakes again in the future. )
- It’s impossible to downgrade / sidegrade from a Teams account to a Plus account
- It’s impossible to contact OpenAI in any way. That’s kinda expected but the whole teams plan is kind of illogical, and it just seems as though it’s promoted to Plus account users, and then traps them.
- Finally, every member of your “team” has the ability to invite anyone to the “shared workspace” which results in non-trivial costs being automatically charged to whoever set up the teams account.
I just want to go back to having a plus account, and I will pay for separate plus accounts for my team members.