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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" "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. 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. 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...
...ponential cost. Diminishing returns. Did anyone in your tech circles talk about ChatGPT 5.1 last week?
... 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. Even though I don't agree with Nate that ASI is imminent, I still found it very ...
...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.
...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. 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. 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
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...
OpenAI is looking at a Log in with ChatGPT offering. A crucial feature: businesses that use it can subsidize inference for users. This is a classic aggregator play to lock in an ecosystem base...
The Atlantic points out that ChatGPT is a fictional character. But unlike many characters, it was not authored. Instead, it emerged. A very different dynamic. Yet another way that the im...
A few thoughts on ChatGPT allowing adult content. It leans into hyper addiction and engagement even more. At that scale of deployment (beyond some niche for things like Replik...
Stratchery dove into why Walmart decided to integrate with ChatGPT Commerce. To me this implies that the current model of software is stagnant.
...e platform owner's permission? It's a fundamentally different kind of thing. So ChatGPT is not like Windows, it's like Facebook, but turbocharged. Because even on Facebook, it's only valuable if other people and other content is on it. C...
ChatGPT Commerce shines when finding candidates is easy but verifying they match your goals is tedious. LLMs have infinite patience and OK judgment. Two conc...
When ChatGPT Turns Informant "The largely overlooked privacy risks of using AI apps that not only remember your conversations, but are capable of using these to r...