Topic: ChatGPT

195 mentions · 158 chunks · 69 episodes

29.5× distinctiveness vs baseline
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2.7x burst in 2025 Q3
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Topic summary

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  • ChatGPT appears in 158 chunks across 69 episodes, from 2024-01-29 to 2026-06-15.
  • Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/5/25 (2025-05-05), with 6 observations on this topic.
  • Semantically it travels with OpenAI, memory feature, and Claude, while by chunk count it sits between Claude and Google; its yearly rank moved from #13 in 2024 to #6 in 2026.

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Observations

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OpenAI announced a Lockdown mode.

from Bits and Bobs 6/15/26 ·

...ounced a Lockdown mode. I'm seeing a lot of outlets say this is the way to make ChatGPT safe, but that's wrong. It just cuts off the most useful functionality so it can't be used against you. In today's security paradigm, you get powerfu...

This week in the Wild West Roundup:

from Bits and Bobs 6/1/26 ·

...the Wild West Roundup: Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files. ChatGPPhish: ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload. Ars Technica: Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into ...

This week in the Wild West Roundup.

from Bits and Bobs 4/13/26 ·

...take over ~400 hosts." Apple Intelligence AI Guardrails Bypassed in New Attack. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Among 11 AI Models Vulnerable to One-Line Jailbreak. The idea that you can trust the model to behave as intended in all situation...

Claude Code can fuel a new kind of mania.

from Bits and Bobs 3/17/26 ·

...ania. This is unlike the "the chatbot is my friend and a God" mania inspired by ChatGPT 4o. It's a kind of hyper-competence mania. Claude Code can help you build your own universe to retreat into. Mania normally extinguishes because you ...