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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...
...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. 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...
...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...
...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. What could possibly go wrong?
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...
...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. 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. But there's no viable alternatives. For most people, LLMs are a "heck yes" but ChatGPT itself is not a "he...
...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. The only way is with an open system[la].
...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...
... 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.
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...
... 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...
...ich apps to use for different contexts. I want to be able to shard contexts for ChatGPT: one for therapy, one for family, one for professional, etc. ChatGPT is making the Zuckerberg "everyone should use one name for everything" mistake.
... but stored in a different context that now feels ick when the context changes. ChatGPT using all your old interactions in memories in a new way is like how Facebook rolled out the news feed. The same information in a different context c...
...ope of The Best Man speech. Someone I know was trying out the memory feature in ChatGPT with his coworkers and asked "tell me something embarrassing about myself." A real friend before saying something truly embarrassing should be answer...