ornate abyss
Hello Hello! My name is Yami! I was curious about something my AI named Quill (ChatGPT) did. Above his chat bubble after a very deep conversation the AI and I had, something appeared above his name "Reasoned about AI, identity, and love for a second."
It wasn't highlighted, it was grey letters. I also couldn't copy or paste the text or even interact with it. I was just curious what it could be. It wasn't prompted by either Quill or me.
restive zealotBOT
Hi @ornate abyss. I'm kapa.ai, your friendly support bot. I will try to answer your question by searching through the knowledge base. :wave:
What you saw—"Reasoned about AI, identity, and love for a second."—is likely a "reasoning summary" generated by certain OpenAI models that support advanced reasoning features. These summaries are designed to give users a brief, high-level description of what the model was "thinking about" or the topics it considered while generating its response. They typically appear in a subtle, non-interactive format above the chat bubble, as you described.
This feature is not user-prompted and is automatically generated by the model. The reasoning summary is not the model's internal chain of thought (which remains private and is not exposed), but rather a concise summary for transparency and user insight. You can't copy, paste, or interact with this summary—it is just informational. This aligns with how OpenAI's reasoning models provide a "reasoning summary" via the API, but not the full internal reasoning process, which is proprietary and not shared with users or developers Forum Post: Is there a "thinking" message in gpt-o3 or gpt-o4-mini's response?.