How to Capture and Study Conversations Between Research Participants and ChatGPT: GPT for Researchers (g4r.org)

As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT become increasingly integrated into our everyday lives—from customer service and education to creative work and personal productivity—understanding how people interact with these AI systems has become a pressing issue. Despite the widespread use of LLMs, researchers lack standardized tools for systematically studying people’s interactions with LLMs. To address this issue, we introduce GPT for Researchers (G4R), or g4r.org, a free website that researchers can use to easily create and integrate a GPT Interface into their studies. At g4r.org, researchers can (1) enable their study participants to interact with GPT (such as ChatGPT), (2) customize GPT Interfaces to guide participants’ interactions with GPT (e.g., set constraints on topics or adjust GPT’s tone or response style), and (3) capture participants’ interactions with GPT by downloading data on messages exchanged between participants and GPT. By facilitating study participants’ interactions with GPT and providing detailed data on these interactions, G4R can support research on topics such as consumer interactions with AI agents or LLMs, AI-assisted decision-making, and linguistic patterns in human-AI communication. With this goal in mind, we provide a step-by-step guide to using G4R at g4r.org.