OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police You could argue the LLM provider shouldn't even have the queries to hand ...
Topic: OpenAI
105 mentions · 89 chunks · 57 episodes
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- OpenAI appears in 89 chunks across 57 episodes, from 2023-11-13 to 2026-06-15.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 6/9/25 (2025-06-09), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Anthropic, ChatGPT, and llm model, while by chunk count it sits between Google and Meta; its yearly rank moved from #19 in 2023 to #14 in 2026.
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I continue to think the best business parallel for LLM model providers is cell phone networks.
...to be disabled by default so the user had to pay to use that carrier's map app. OpenAI is moving to control the last-mile UX. They'll likely move to "throttling" maneuvers, for example only giving access to the premium model in their 1P...
OpenAI's business value now comes mostly from the consumer subscriptions, not the underlying LLM model.
OpenAI's business value now comes mostly from the consumer subscriptions, not the underlying LLM model. They started off by having the first break-out model...
OpenAI's power in the market arises less from the model's quality, and more from owning the default consumer app.
OpenAI's power in the market arises less from the model's quality, and more from owning the default consumer app. They're the "kleenex" of AI–the one brand ...
The reflections of an OpenAI engineer say that at OpenAI "Chat runs really deep."
The reflections 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 an...
We're seeing an explosion of AI browsers.
... only player that could plausibly have the juice to do it in the last decade is OpenAI. OpenAI will try to redefine the browser category. Just blow it up. Make the web page rendering be the secondary function, not the primary.
On the path to aggregating everything, OpenAI will at some point allow users to choose competitor's models in the UI.
On the path to aggregating everything, OpenAI will at some point allow users to choose competitor's models in the UI. They'll say "you can use any model! Look, it's open!" But no one changes the ...
With OpenAI and Anthropic the model is the product.
With OpenAI and Anthropic the model is the product. The product is a model in the middle like a christmas tree decorated with various doo dads. The doo dads are ...
Ranking systems almost never expose the "knobs" to users.
... never ship a toggle to "make me more bored." This is probably the logic behind OpenAI refusing to make the memory feature user controllable. Also, they think they can get away with it without too much uproar… … and they're probably rig...
What's the chance that OpenAI winds down the Inference API business?
What's the chance that OpenAI winds down the Inference API business?[ix] They could try to switch to an approach where the only way 3P's build on their platform is mainly by exten...
OpenAI going for vertical integration is like cell phone carriers trying to control what software you can install on devices connected to their network.
OpenAI going for vertical integration is like cell phone carriers[jj][jk] trying to control what software you can install on devices connected to their netw...
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 ev...
Everyone's talking about how ChatGPT now must retain all logs due to a judge's ruling.
... 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 must have logs, it's their business imperative.
When you ask OpenAI what embarrassing things it knows about you, if it doesn't have anything it says "I don't know anything embarrassing about you, but you should feel free to tell me something!"
When you ask OpenAI what embarrassing things it knows about you, if it doesn't have anything it says "I don't know anything embarrassing about you, but you should feel f...
We already pay a "subscription" to the internet.
...internet bill for our home. Many people have a subscription to a walled garden (OpenAI) to get access to LLMs. If you're going to have a subscription to get access to LLMs, why not pick the option that is the open ecosystem, that includ...
AI should just be plumbing.
...ith your intentions becomes of critical importance. According to a leaked memo, OpenAI is trying to build the super-assistant.
The equilibrium of the best LLM models being available via API seems meta-stable to me.
...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. Other leading models from Anth...
With the way OpenAI is building out their product team, they sure aren't acting like they think they'll get AGI soon.
With the way OpenAI is building out their product team, they sure aren't acting like they think they'll get AGI soon.[mm]
The main chatbots are taking the engagement-maxing playbook of Facebook and jamming it into the most intimate personal interactions in our lives.
...lives. The top 4 chatbots today are led by people who have been Facebook execs. OpenAI is speedrunning the engagement maxing playbook. Experts in the playbook have pointed this out. The engagement maxing playbook was a net negative for ...
Engagement maxing is a gravity well almost every scaled consumer business tends to fall into.
...aturally bias towards sycophantic answers. People have started to call out that OpenAI is falling into the engagement maximizing trap: "You have a problem you haven't addressed or answered. Sycophantic model behavior is good for your bu...