Our questions are often similar.
... thought someone else had plagiarized their essay. Turns out they had both used ChatGPT, and asked it similar questions.
Topic: ChatGPT
199 mentions · 161 chunks · 71 episodes
29.9× distinctiveness vs baseline
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2.9x burst in 2025 Q3
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- ChatGPT appears in 161 chunks across 71 episodes, from 2024-01-29 to 2026-08-03.
- 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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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]
A feature I desperately want: the ability to curate / edit earlier messages in a chatbot thread, to better direct future output from the model.
...in the main chatbots? Because it's too niche a feature, too pro, too confusing. ChatGPT is already hyper-scale, which means it needs to focus on the marginal user and put all of its effort into making it easier to use for low intent user...
ChatGPT is adaptive software.
ChatGPT is adaptive software. You tell it what it wants and it changes its behavior to match. But it's only append-only text. How can you create adaptive sof...
A psychiatrist shared his thoughts on ChatGPT psychosis:
A psychiatrist shared his thoughts on ChatGPT psychosis: "1. This is not schizophrenia. 2. Psychiatric disorders rarely appear out of nowhere. 3. What we may be seeing is a kind of digital folie ...
A powerful player who vertically integrates two layers prevents competition in either.
...er than any individual player at any layer can make, which removes competition. ChatGPT is vertically integrating the model, the memory, and the application into one.
Sycosocial relationships are getting mainstream attention;
...ting mainstream attention; The Wall Street Journal: He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. Although the "ChatGPT admitted" frame is misleading, these models can't introspect like that.
If you think someone you care about is stuck in a sycosocial relationship, send them this guide from Less Wrong: "So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT"
...relationship, send them this guide from Less Wrong: "So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT"
This week we saw the first high-profile example of a sycosocial relationship that went off the rails, leading to what looks like a public psychotic break.
...OADS of fanfic: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-series" As a friend observed: "ChatGPT is effectively the memetic equivalent of Gain-of-Function research on viruses but without any containment whatsoever" I've interacted with folks who ...
The reflections of an OpenAI engineer say that at OpenAI "Chat runs really deep."
...ctions of an OpenAI engineer say that at OpenAI "Chat runs really deep." "Since ChatGPT took off, a lot of the codebase is structured around the idea of chat messages and conversations. These primitives are so baked at this point, you sh...
The better LLMs get, the less context they need to feel truly personal.
...oes up. Whereas the knowledge graph never gets easier. The 'knowledge graph' in ChatGPT is currently smooshed within the ChatGPT history, but in an ad hoc / messy way–and in a way hidden from the user! Without the user being able to see ...
The News Feed betrayal effect: the dissonance that happens where sensitive data users added in one context is now used in another context.
...er context. The longer you've used it, the more data you've likely accumulated. ChatGPT had a few months pass before it flipped the memory feature on, which led to the "you are insecure about…" embarrassing reveal to friends. People forg...
ChatGPT's Agents feature feels fundamentally reckless to me.
ChatGPT's Agents feature feels fundamentally reckless to me. Their approach to prompt injection is basically: tell the model to really, really, focus on not ...
I'm optimistic about LLMs potential for humanity, and pessimistic about the slippery slope ChatGPT is on.
...tic about LLMs potential for humanity, and pessimistic about the slippery slope ChatGPT is on. Not where ChatGPT is, but the drain it will circle. Every hyperscale product over time is forced to fall down the slippery slope of engagement...
ChatGPT's answers feel to me like being served up a personalized Axios article.
ChatGPT's answers feel to me like being served up a personalized Axios article. More formatting than substance. Punchy and "simple" while obscuring nuance. P...
How much you trust a suggestion is partially due to what context the system is drawing on.
...s a big determinant in how good the results are. This is one of the reasons the ChatGPT dossier memory feels off to me. You can't inspect the context to say, "include this, not that". The chat is append only, not coactive. You can imagin...
Some examples of sycosocial relationships with LLMs:
...th LLMs: People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" Examples in this Ezra Klein interview.
We're in the portals era of AI.
... the web bigger. "As you think about the evolution of AI and the form factor of ChatGPT … we might still be in Yahoo directory."
Are you pair-programming or code reviewing the LLM's code output?
...ol to help you think less? This is what is called cognitive debt. Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task