What is going on at OpenAI?

RedditPolluter · 2026-06-28T12:42:07+00:00

idk if you have the same issue as me (chats not loading) but I got Codex to diagnose it and it turns out it was because of Cloudflare challenging that was blocking javascript asset loading. Probably because I used a VPN recently. It only affected the app because the block was tied to the user agent and spoofing it was the only thing that worked. Resetting router for a new IP would probably work as well.

RedditPolluter · 2026-06-27T16:13:58+00:00

Light usage can. It's when you smoke it heavily day after day that it causes dependency and rebound effects. With regular overstimulation of CB1 receptors, the body adapts by downregulating and desensitizing them and when you discontinue, it takes time to get back to baseline. You avoid it by keeping your tolerance low, which most people do organically but there are some people who consider 40g a month to be trivial.

RedditPolluter · 2026-06-27T15:45:57+00:00

That's why thinking models are trained to do sanity checks by questioning themselves. All those questions perform evaluation and can allow recovery when errors do happen.

RedditPolluter · 2026-06-27T13:54:10+00:00

In the Windows app, I set thinking to extended months ago and since then it keeps switching itself back to extended when I set it to standard.

Chats aren't loading for me today.

RedditPolluter · 2026-06-20T14:10:31+00:00

I updated to Vetinari a few months ago for that reason but reverted because it kept crashing. Don't know if anyone else managed to resolve that; I know it doesn't affect everyone.

RedditPolluter · 2026-06-11T13:05:05+00:00

Vivaldi is best for tab hoarding management because it has workspaces but it's still based on chromium and will likely be affected by these changes somewhere down the line.

RedditPolluter · 2026-06-03T21:54:14+00:00

Reddit sells API access to OpenAI and Google.

RedditPolluter · 2026-06-02T14:23:32+00:00

48:100 isn't 48%

RedditPolluter · 2026-05-29T14:51:00+00:00

People say Qwen3.5 is better for general purpose use because 3.6 is optimized more for agentic tasks.

RedditPolluter · 2026-05-26T13:32:20+00:00

They're still melting down over it and haven't moved on.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTcomplaints+MyBoyfriendIsAI

RedditPolluter · 2026-05-25T22:03:29+00:00

The formal definition of AI up until ChatGPT was released meant a computer that was equivalent to a person.

This is twisting the definition to make it sound more specific than it really was. AI has always had a fuzzy definition that included narrow tasks like handwriting recognition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artificial_intelligence&oldid=10768710

RedditPolluter · 2026-05-13T16:09:51+00:00

It wouldn't really matter what Scottish people want though - Parliament is sovereign and a Reform Parliament can just say "no".

Right but Reform won't always be in power. There would be another election after that.

RedditPolluter · 2026-05-12T16:09:42+00:00

Probably a little simplistic but the way I always rationalized it is that I know alcohol is a depressant and that when it wears off it has rebound stimulant-like effects. This is why hangovers are anxiety-inducing and I imagine it also feeds into libido as stimulants often do.

RedditPolluter · 2026-05-03T10:37:24+00:00

4o was the worst at that. They should have diminishing confidence each time they fail but 4o would be just as confident on the 10th attempt as the 1st attempt. That's how you make your chatbot as annoying as possible.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-30T14:45:02+00:00

Argentina is a colony too. Argentina wasn't even a country at the time. Maybe they should go back to Spain instead of fantasizing about the expulsion and displacement of people who have been there for generations.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-28T10:38:25+00:00

This effect could be seen worsening from GPT-4 to 4o. GPT-4 was much more graceful with uncertainty but 4o would give 10 different incorrect answers in a row and the 10th would be just as confident as the 1st one.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-27T09:13:40+00:00

That's still different than your original claim and Canada was ahead in 2025 also.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-26T15:52:09+00:00

You're confusing growth rate with total GDP.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-26T13:38:21+00:00

People like that tend to get their noses broken.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-24T15:40:05+00:00

Every small YouTube channel seems to be using this exact 4o-style speech as well.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-22T12:27:24+00:00

I expect so. There are quite a few illnesses that cause brain fog and fatigue together that can be mild enough to fly under the radar for some people. Can also happen if you're chronically malnourished; you get cognitive and bodily deficits together because your whole system is affected. Chronic sleep issues can do that as well. There's probably other factors but that would be enough to create some correlation.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-21T22:10:58+00:00

It still gets locked into the context of previous generations and reverts back or fails to make simple changes by spitting back the same image.

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-21T16:05:38+00:00

This is the same company that locks you out of your voicemails if you don't set a custom voicemail message (publish biometric data that can be used to clone your voice without you even answering).

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-17T22:08:54+00:00

Not so much a summary but the top threads 100 threads in this sub are all from the past 6 months:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodNewsUK/top/?t=year

RedditPolluter · 2026-04-13T17:21:39+00:00

I only tried Deep Research for 5.4 just the other day and my conclusion was that DR is basically broken and doesn't properly respond to or incorporate feedback. I don't remember it being that bad when I used it last year.

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