People bought windows (and even iPhones) largely because of 3P apps.
People bought windows (and even iPhones) largely because of 3P apps. But with ChatGPT, 99.999% of experiences are 1P. An 'ecosystem' that is so hyper-concentrated is not resilient.
Topic: ChatGPT
208 mentions · 168 chunks · 76 episodes
30.8× distinctiveness vs baseline
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3.0x burst in 2025 Q3
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- ChatGPT appears in 168 chunks across 76 episodes, from 2024-01-29 to 2026-10-05.
- 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 Google and Meta; its yearly rank moved from #13 in 2024 to #7 in 2026.
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The new Buy it in ChatGPT feature, powered by Stripe, seems like a fancy iframe.
The new Buy it in ChatGPT feature, powered by Stripe, seems like a fancy iframe. But one where the entity controlling it can easily be tricked. It would be a conflict of inter...
Chat should be a sidecar to your more permanent data, not the main thing.
...acting those insights takes work… and it's easy for the system to get it wrong. ChatGPT does this with its dossier, which it's continually expanding, tweaking, based on your most recent chats. But it doesn't share that dossier with you. ...
A consistent bias: the LLM will agree with your side of the story.
... Also from Futurism: In Situations Where Most Humans Think You're Being a Jerk, ChatGPT Will Assure You You're Behaving Like an Angel.
I loved this riff on the Pelican+baby meme about ChatGPT and your data:
I loved this riff on the Pelican+baby meme about ChatGPT and your data: "AI SYSTEM perfect size for put data in to secure! inside very secure and useful data will be useful put data in AI System. Put data i...
Does asking an LLM sensitive medical questions invade your privacy by giving data to OpenAI?
...sensitive medical questions invade your privacy by giving data to OpenAI? Using ChatGPT vs using a service that uses the same model via the API are orders of magnitude different risk. In the former, OpenAI explicitly reserves the right t...
This week in other security issues in LLMs:
...ShadowLeak: A Zero-Click, Service-Side Attack Exfiltrating Sensitive Data Using ChatGPT's Deep Research Agent.. Ars Technica's summary Eito Miyamura: "We got ChatGPT to leak your private email data… …All you need? The victim's email addr...
ChatGPT Sent Me To The ER
ChatGPT Sent Me To The ER The title is click-bait-y, but the author actually did have a rare condition that required immediate attention. LLMs have infinite ...
I like the way that Claude has introduced memory.
...xporting easy, too. This article compares how the philosophy is the opposite of ChatGPT.
A signpost: an article in the Washington Post telling consumers how to disable ChatGPT from training on your conversations.
A signpost: an article in the Washington Post telling consumers how to disable ChatGPT from training on your conversations.
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.
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...