I Changed One Line in ChatGPT’s Settings… and It Stopped Sounding Like a Machine

I stumbled onto this by accident.

Two months ago, I was asking ChatGPT about What Type of Articles Work Better on Medium. The answer came back fast….. confident….. and completely polished. It felt like advice stitched together from every self-help blog on the internet. Generic. Safe. The sort of thing that sounds informed but tells you nothing you could actually act on.

I almost closed the tab. But then I remembered something a friend had mentioned… something about custom settings that most people never use.

Buried inside ChatGPT is something called Personalization.

You find it by clicking your profile picture.

Click on Personalization and Enable Customisation.