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...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.
...onsumer apps (that didn't come from a preexisting big company) between 2016 and ChatGPT.
...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...
...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. Sometimes the right UX activates a previously latent possibility.
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...
...s kind of problem never speeds it up. Claude is great at integration-hard code; ChatGPT feels better at algorithm-hard code.
... thought someone else had plagiarized their essay. Turns out they had both used ChatGPT, and asked it similar questions.
...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...
...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]
...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. 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: "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 ...
...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.
...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.
...relationship, send them this guide from Less Wrong: "So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT"
...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 ...
...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...
...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 ...
...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...