4 WebsiteCompass A Beginner’s Guide to ChatGPT 1. Go to chatgpt.com. You’ll be offered three options: 1. “Log in” (if you already have an OpenAI account) 2. “Sign up for free” (to create a free OpenAI account) 3. “Stay logged out” (to use ChatGPT without an account) To try out ChatGPT for the first time, you may want to choose “Stay logged out.” Once you experience its usefulness, you’ll probably want to go ahead and sign up for an OpenAI account, since you’ll get smarter responses. 2. Tell ChatGPT what you want. Type your prompt—what you’d like ChatGPT to provide— in the message bar. For example, you might say “Write a joke about ChatGPT.”After you’ve entered the prompt, click the up-facing arrow to send. In seconds, you’ll receive the answer. In our example, it provided this joke: Why did ChatGPT break up with its girlfriend? Because every time she said, “We need to talk,” it replied, “Sure! Here’s a 10-paragraph summary with sources.” 3. Make other requests as needed. • Use ChatGPT search to explicitly tell ChatGPT to search the web to inform its response (otherwise, it might rely only on the data it was trained on). To do so, click Search in the message bar, and enter your prompt. • Use deep research in ChatGPT to get it to comb through hundreds of online sources and files to give you a comprehensive response, complete with cited sources to verify its claims.To do this, click Deep Research in the message bar, and enter your prompt. • Talk to ChatGPT by pressing the Voice Mode icon in the message bar or by pressing the microphone icon to enter your prompt using speech-to-text. • Upload an image by clicking the paperclip icon in the message bar, uploading the image you want to share, and entering your accompanying prompt. You can also drag and drop the image from your computer into the message bar. 4. Interact with ChatGPT’s responses. After getting a response from ChatGPT, you have options for modifying it to better meet your needs. • Edit your original prompt. Hover over the prompt and click the Edit message icon that appears (it looks like a pencil). Edit your prompt, and then click Send. • Enter a new prompt. One of ChatGPT’s key features—and the one that makes it feel like having a real back-and-forth dialogue—is that it can “remember” the conversation you’re having with it. This means you can ask ChatGPT to modify its response without repeating yourself or starting from scratch. • Review the sources. Hover over any source listed and click it to go directly to the source. FAST FACT: As of June 2025, ChatGPT owns 60.60% of the generative AI chatbot market—far above competitors like Copilot (~14%) and Google Gemini (~13%). Source: www.wfs.org/chatgpt-statistics/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Feature Story
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