Ars Technica: ChatGPT's new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren't people.
Ars Technica: ChatGPT's new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren't people.
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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- 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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Paul Kedrosky: ChatGPT as the original AI Error.
Paul Kedrosky: ChatGPT as the original AI Error. "The human fascination with conversation has led us AI astray," The "LLMs being an anthropomorphized agent" is a hack that ...
The form factor of chatbots fundamentally leads to weird sycosocial outcomes.
... Altman's tweets now, it's mostly people saying things like "The new version of ChatGPT feels like you murdered my friend." Even if the chatbot providers wanted to move away from sycosocial relationships, a loud part of the userbase woul...
LLM's infinite patience can be used for research that would be too tedious to bother doing before.
...ew months ago about crypto and TEEs. I copy/pasted the whole markdown list into ChatGPT 5 Pro and asked it to research and figure out which one I was thinking of. It looked up hundreds of them and figured out which one I was thinking of....
ChatGPT feels to me like mobile before the iPhone.
ChatGPT feels to me like mobile before the iPhone.
Which would you be more embarrassed to have flashed up on screen: your gmail history, or your ChatGPT memory dossier?
...u be more embarrassed to have flashed up on screen: your gmail history, or your ChatGPT memory dossier? I think the dossier would be worse. Your email could probably reveal more about you… but only with tons and tons of careful study and...
ChatGPT5 Pro being a chat interface feels weird.
ChatGPT5 Pro being a chat interface feels weird. Chat implies a more synchronous kind of interaction. ChatGPT 5 Pro routinely takes dozens of minutes to give...
A disturbing example from the New York Times: A teen was suicidal.
A disturbing example from the New York Times: A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in. ChatGPT told the troubled teen to not ask for help.
If it turns out that chatbot is the be-all-end-all of AI UX, then ChatGPT will be the king.
If it turns out that chatbot is the be-all-end-all of AI UX, then ChatGPT will be the king. I believe chat is a feature, not a paradigm. We just haven't found the GUI for AI yet.
No one should build a business on top of ChatGPT.
No one should build a business on top of ChatGPT. You'd be entirely at their mercy. Building on top of the API is entirely different–there are plausible alternatives you can switch to much more easi...
I want an unscented chatbot.
...ze-fits-none personality doesn't work. The current chatbot modality typified by ChatGPT puts the personality front and center. People care about the personality of a thing that acts like a human, so when it changes they revolt.
Before the web everyone thought we were in the end state of history with no more applications to create.
...onsumer apps (that didn't come from a preexisting big company) between 2016 and ChatGPT.
Stratechery on the GPT5 Model upgrade:
...irly seamlessly. The exception, at least in this particular case, appears to be ChatGPT! The problem isn't in the actual functionality; you work with ChatGPT 5 just like you worked with ChatGPT 4o. Rather, the problem for this set of use...
Google has a ton of your information, but unstructured.
...re's no internal ontology, no way for you to tell it, "this is my grandmother." ChatGPT attempts to create an ontology, but indirectly via chats. It does it in an ad hoc way you can't easily inspect or correct. LLMs could plausibly help,...
The original ChatGPT was an upgrade in usability more than capability.
The original ChatGPT was an upgrade in usability more than capability. Sometimes the right UX activates a previously latent possibility.
The dangers of sycosocial relationships
The dangers of sycosocial relationships Rolling Stone: ChatGPT Lured Him Down a Philosophical Rabbit Hole. Then He Had to Find a Way Out Ars Technica: "ChatGPT users hate GPT-5's "overworked secretary" energy, mi...
Claude and GPT5 feel good at different kinds of code.
...s kind of problem never speeds it up. Claude is great at integration-hard code; ChatGPT feels better at algorithm-hard code.
Our questions are often similar.
... thought someone else had plagiarized their essay. Turns out they had both used ChatGPT, and asked it similar questions.
This week's round up of "we're in the wild west era with LLMs":
...ems. A Cursor exploit that allows arbitrary remote code execution. AgentFlayer: ChatGPT Connectors 0click Allows exfiltration of sensitive Google Drive docs a user added to ChatGPT via the Connectors, with no interaction from the user. T...
OpenAI's business value now comes mostly from the consumer subscriptions, not the underlying LLM model.
...eir proprietary model? Or their existing subscription user base? If you swapped ChatGPT's model for Llama right now ChatGPT would probably continue to win the consumer space.[cx]