ChatGPT tops out as a Chatbot.
ChatGPT tops out as a Chatbot. Is chat really all there is? Chat is a feature, not a paradigm. Which would you choose between 1) a product that's only a Chat...
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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Topic summary
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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.
Over time
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Every built a Diplomacy game for LLMs to play.
... play. Gemini generally does well. Claude refuses to lie, and thus loses often. ChatGPT o3 often wins because it is very happy to betray its collaborators. The things that LLMs are selected for and trained for matter, especially when you...
I used ChatGPt to identify an odd piece of hardware in my post-war AirBnB in Manhattan this week.
I used ChatGPt to identify an odd piece of hardware in my post-war AirBnB in Manhattan this week. That could have never worked in Google Lens, but it worked great i...
Isn't it kind of weird when ChatGPT uses the first person in its answers?
Isn't it kind of weird when ChatGPT uses the first person in its answers? When you talk to a person you'd never say "I'm just talking to a collection of synapses." We can all agree that...
Self perception and self-deception are easy to confuse.
...ne's actions didn't change given they were being recorded. Do we try to impress ChatGPT? Before the memories feature I didn't care. But now I do. An existential risk: human addiction to "therapy" that feels like growth but actually isn't...
This week ChatGPT gaslit me about its memory feature.
This week ChatGPT gaslit me about its memory feature. I started off asking what it knew about me. I had to really twist its arm to get it to give me most of the things...
Consumer businesses tend to be pulled inexorably towards engagement and ads.
...riments and tweaks. Sam Altman today has made it very clear he's against ads in ChatGPT. I asked a collection of plugged in and savvy friends what the chance was that ChatGPT would have something normal users would call ads within the ne...
OpenAI going for vertical integration is like cell phone carriers trying to control what software you can install on devices connected to their network.
...der for other experiences to compete. It will accelerate the aggregation around ChatGPT. Good for OpenAI, bad for everyone else.
ChatGPT's goal is one app to rule them all.
ChatGPT's goal is one app to rule them all. What could possibly go wrong?
OpenAI's implementation of MCP in ChatGPT is limited.
OpenAI's[jz] implementation of MCP in ChatGPT is limited. They only allow a subset of allow-listed MCP instances for certain use cases. This will quickly evolve into a kind of app-store distribut...
MCP is the AI era's OLE.
...this movie ends. If you want to dig in more, I fed my recent Bits and Bobs into ChatGPT's Deep Research and it gave a more in depth report diving into the parallels.
Everyone's talking about how ChatGPT now must retain all logs due to a judge's ruling.
Everyone's talking about how ChatGPT now must retain all logs due to a judge's ruling. Imagine if OpenAI had been in a position where they simply didn't have the logs. But aggregators mu...
Everyone has a bit of ick about ChatGPT being the super-app all of our data is in.
Everyone has a bit of ick about ChatGPT being the super-app all of our data is in. But there's no viable alternatives. For most people, LLMs are a "heck yes" but ChatGPT itself is not a "he...
Excellent piece from Luke Drago: Data is the New Social Security Number.
...uke Drago: Data is the New Social Security Number. The context wars have begun. ChatGPT will do its best to be the single place where our context all lives. What are you doing to do about it?
We need billions of users in a system to counter ChatGPT.
We need billions of users in a system to counter ChatGPT. The only way is with an open system[la].
A chilling tweet from Derek Thompson:
...s another 25%, as coupling rates plunge 3. Now this…" …how many people describe ChatGPT (manipulative sycophant-on-demand) as their only friend. Chatbots as currently manifested are a deeply anti-social technology[lb]. We need to manifes...
Last week I told the story of someone who had an inappropriate thing come up when he asked ChatGPT "tell me something embarrassing about me" in front of his coworkers.
... told the story of someone who had an inappropriate thing come up when he asked ChatGPT "tell me something embarrassing about me" in front of his coworkers. Someone countered that it was his fault, because he should have remembered that ...
Simon Willison's deep dive on ChatGPT's dossier feature shows some of the oddities in the behavior.
Simon Willison's deep dive on ChatGPT's dossier feature shows some of the oddities in the behavior.
An emergent pattern of use in ChatGPT: long-running conversations on a particular topic.
An emergent pattern of use in ChatGPT: long-running conversations on a particular topic. Multiple people proactively told me this week they do this pattern. They keep a running thread abo...
The equilibrium of the best LLM models being available via API seems meta-stable to me.
... via API seems meta-stable to me. You could imagine an alternate universe where ChatGPT got popular before OpenAI had released a public completion API. In that world, OpenAI would likely reserve their model for their own 1P product. Othe...