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Topic: ChatGPT
195 mentions · 155 chunks · 67 episodes
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- ChatGPT appears in 155 chunks across 67 episodes, from 2024-01-29 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/5/25 (2025-05-05), with 6 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with llms, OpenAI, and Claude, while by chunk count it sits between Claude and Google; its yearly rank moved from #14 in 2024 to #7 in 2026.
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ChatGPT says it will do ads.
ChatGPT says it will do ads. Shocker! Your intimate friend who knows everything about you and is pretenaturally good at making hyper-convincing arguments bei...
ChatGPT, now with Ads.
ChatGPT, now with Ads. Duh. So the tool that knows everything about you and is too good at making convincing arguments is going to start to be incentivized t...
Google's Personal Intelligence knows a lot but..
...knows a lot but.. Google knows you on Google. Apple on Apple. TikTok on TikTok. ChatGPT in ChatGPT. Your life is the union of all of it. If context isn't portable, you're fragmented - or your "favorite" AI becomes your gatekeeper. We nee...
ChatGPT's Apps don't appear to be doing well.
ChatGPT's Apps don't appear to be doing well. The conversion rate for a user actually "installing" one is low. That's because the actual user experience blow...
This week in the Wild West roundup.
... IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware. ZombieAgent prompt injection in ChatGPT. The prompt injection stays active long term in memories. It's an evolution of the ShadowLeak attack. It uses preenumerated URLs to leak information ...
Google Search as a centralized service felt somewhat less scary to me than ChatGPT.
Google Search as a centralized service felt somewhat less scary to me than ChatGPT. But why? Both could have outsize impact from just a bit of bias given their scale. Google Search didn't have much individual state, whereas ChatGPT ...
When you ask a question on Stack Overflow, others might judge you.
When you ask a question on Stack Overflow, others might judge you.[fo] But ChatGPT will never judge you… and if it did, it's in a private chat. So it's easier to ask questions without being embarrassed. But that also means it's easy...
NYTimes: "What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality"
NYTimes: "What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality" "In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made i...
ChatGPT is like chat rooms on the internet at the beginning.
ChatGPT is like chat rooms on the internet at the beginning. Obvious, but not the end point. The first mass-market use cases of the internet were chat and em...
Tech enthusiasts are getting a very different experience of ChatGPT than most people.
Tech enthusiasts are getting a very different experience of ChatGPT than most people. We're way more likely to have a paid subscription and get premium results. But if you use it on a free account, the results are muc...
The benefit of LLM quality is inherently logarithmic.
...ponential cost. Diminishing returns. Did anyone in your tech circles talk about ChatGPT 5.1 last week?
This week in the wild west roundup.
... vulnerable to remote code execution. Seven data exfiltration leakages found in ChatGPT. An Obsidian chat support agent hallucinated answers, which is a security problem.
I loved this Hank Green video on ChatGPT, with Nate Soares, the author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
I loved this Hank Green video on ChatGPT, with Nate Soares, the author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Even though I don't agree with Nate that ASI is imminent, I still found it very ...
LLMs assume everything that happened before in the conversation made sense and try to keep it going.
...ry, it gets more and more in a critical state, responding to noise. If you tell ChatGPT "We hired the giraffe as CEO like you said, and it was a disaster!" it will apologize and try to retcon why it did it in the first place.
This week's AI security wild west round up.
...is week's AI security wild west round up. A 'tainted memories' vulnerability in ChatGPT Atlas allows persistent malicious injection. ChatGPT Atlat has a omnibox prompt injection attack. Brave finds yet another prompt injection attack in ...
ChatGPT always feels so convergent.
ChatGPT always feels so convergent. It jumps straight to Axios style faux certainty, no matter what. Claude is more willing to keep the conversation open.[hx...
ChatGPT Atlas's coverage has been dominated by stories about prompt injection and privacy.
ChatGPT Atlas's coverage has been dominated by stories about prompt injection and privacy. A prompt injection attack was demonstrated in the first 24 hours. ...
Fortune: An ex-OpenAI researcher's study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails
Fortune: An ex-OpenAI researcher's study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails
Apparently ChatGPT's subscriber counts are stalling.
Apparently ChatGPT's subscriber counts are stalling. I hadn't realized how much of ChatGPT usage is free users. Only 5% (!!) of users are paying subscribers.[im][in] It...