How to switch a ChatGPT thread to GPT-4
Did one of your GPT-4 chats get downgraded to GPT-3.5? Here is how to switch back to GPT-4
UPDATE: A commenter left these words of wisdom (unconfirmed by me):
It just worked for me. But in addition to “model”, I also changed the message ids: “parent_message_id” — the id of the previous message, “id” — I simply generated a new one
Original post below:
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I ran into an issue where when I ran out of my 25 GPT-4 messages, I clicked the option to continue with the older model. Once I had timed back into being able to use GPT-4, there was no way to switch the conversation back over. Here is how to use the Chrome Developer Tools to switch the conversation back to GPT-4.
Please note that this guide is for informational purposes only and should not be attempted by anyone who is not familiar with programming, coding or using developer tools. Any changes made to the ChatGPT thread can cause unintended consequences, so proceed at your own risk.
Here are the steps to change a ChatGPT thread from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 in Google Chrome:
Step 1: Open the ChatGPT thread in Google Chrome and right-click on the chat window. Click on the “Inspect” option in the context menu that appears.
Step 2: This will open the Developer Console. Click on the “Network” tab in the console.
Step 3: Send a message in the chat window so that a POST request appears in the Network tab. Look for the request named “conversation” and right-click on it.
Step 4: In the context menu, click on “Copy” and then click on “Copy as fetch”. This will copy the request to your clipboard.
Step 5: Open the Console tab in the Developer Console by clicking on the “Console” tab.
Step 6: Paste the copied request into the Console tab.
Step 7: Locate the part of the JSON that says “model” and change it to “gpt-4” (or whatever you want to change it to). It is within the “body” field.
- Change \”model\”:\”text-davinci-002-render-sha\” to \”model\”:\”gpt-4\”
Step 8: After making the changes, submit the request in the Console by pressing “Enter”.
Step 9: Reload the ChatGPT thread to see the changes take effect.
Congratulations, you have successfully changed the ChatGPT thread from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4!
