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Is optimizing for sycophancy intentional at OpenAI?[h] Retention you must optimize for, otherwise your product won't continue to exist. Retention means "a thing people like using."[i] That means that ...
...asking an LLM sensitive medical questions invade your privacy by giving data to OpenAI? Using ChatGPT vs using a service that uses the same model via the API are orders of magnitude different risk. In the former, OpenAI explicitly reser...
OpenAI is climbing the chatbot hill They're in hill-climbing mode on that hill. It's a hill they'll top out on. That makes sense, it's the steepest consumer...
... PromptLock ransomware: "The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss-20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly, which it then executes. PromptLock leverages Lua scripts generated from hard...
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 ...
...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. 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. They're the "kleenex" of AI–the one brand ...
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...
... 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. 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. The product is a model in the middle like a christmas tree decorated with various doo dads. The doo dads are ...
... 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?[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[jj][jk] trying to control what software you can install on devices connected to their netw...
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...
... 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 f...
...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...
...ith your intentions becomes of critical importance. According to a leaked memo, OpenAI is trying to build the super-assistant.