Tuesday Memo · 18 August 2026 · Issue 10
Free ChatGPT just stopped counting your messages
Most people on the free plan ration their questions. Save them up, ask the big one, close the tab. That habit went out of date last week. Three things: what changed, a prompt worth the second question, and one thing to leave alone.
One thing worth your time
Free ChatGPT, with no message limit
On 6 August OpenAI said free ChatGPT is moving to unlimited text chats, on a newer model. The Think button, which makes it work a harder question over before answering, reached free accounts on the web on 14 August. Uploads, images and voice keep their own limits.
The habit worth changing: stop asking one question and closing the tab. Ask again, push back on the first answer, and press Think when it matters.
One prompt to try
Make it mark its own homework
Now the message limit is gone, the second question costs you nothing. Send this one straight after the first answer, before you sign, send or spend anything on it.
Now check your own answer before I use it. What I asked for: [the job, in one line]. List what you assumed, what you are unsure about, and anything I should verify myself. Then fix the weak parts and tell me what changed.
The second answer is usually the one you send.
One thing to ignore
The panic about ads in ChatGPT
Ads are now live in ChatGPT in the UK, on the free and Go plans. Cue the worry that its answers are now bought. They are not. OpenAI’s own page says ads sit below the answer, are labelled sponsored, and run on separate systems advertisers cannot use to shape a response. Treat a sponsored box like any other advert. Switching tools over it costs more than it saves.
That is it for this week: stop rationing your questions, make the Ai check its work, and scroll past the sponsored box.
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