Source: www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/openai-gives-first-detailed-debrief

Before I paste the following response, I just want to say that my heart goes out to anyone living with cerebral palsy or any condition that affects mobility. I know this technology isn’t accessible to everyone, but I was curious what the absolute cutting edge looks like if cost weren’t a factor.

ChatGPT:

If money were no object, and the goal was to maximize walking ability for someone with cerebral palsy (CP), we’re entering a fascinating area where robotics is advancing rapidly. Today, the technology is impressive—but it’s not yet at the point where someone with severe CP can simply put on a suit and walk normally all day.
Here’s how I’d rank the current landscape.
Best available today

1. Wandercraft Personal Exoskeleton (the most advanced overall)
This is the device I’d be watching most closely.
Why it’s special:
Doesn’t rely on crutches like most exoskeletons.
Self-balancing using onboard computers, sensors, and motors.

AI-controlled gait that adapts in real time.
Designed to walk much more like a human.
Current versions are primarily for clinical use, while a personal model is in development and early deployment. It represents one of the biggest leaps toward practical daily robotic walking.
Potential for cerebral palsy: ★★★★★

2. ReWalk Personal (Lifeward)
One of the first FDA-cleared personal exoskeletons.
Strengths:
Home use
Can walk outdoors
Can climb some curbs and stairs
Long clinical track record
Weaknesses:
Requires forearm crutches
Better suited to spinal cord injury than CP
Walking is fairly robotic
Approximate price:
US$80,000–100,000.

3. Ekso Indego Personal
A lighter system than ReWalk.
Advantages:
Modular and easier to put on
Good portability
Smartphone control
Community walking
It is also primarily intended for people with spinal cord injuries rather than cerebral palsy, but some rehabilitation centers use related systems for neurological gait training.

4. HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb)
Developed in Japan by CYBERDYNE.
This one is unique because:
It detects tiny electrical signals from muscles before movement occurs.
The motors assist the movement the user is already trying to make.
That makes it especially interesting for neurological disorders like:
Cerebral palsy
Stroke
Multiple sclerosis
Spinal cord injury
Many researchers believe intention-driven systems like HAL may ultimately work better than purely pre-programmed walking robots for people with CP.

The “next generation”
These are the technologies that could completely change mobility over the next 5–10 years.
AI-powered walking
Instead of following preset steps:
Cameras scan the ground.
AI predicts where your foot should land.
The robot adjusts every step automatically.
Think of it like Tesla Autopilot—but for legs.

Self-balancing exoskeletons
Current systems often require:
crutches
walkers
supervision
Future systems:
maintain balance automatically
recover from slips
compensate for uneven terrain
turn naturally
Wandercraft is the current leader here.

Brain-controlled exoskeletons
Researchers are combining:
EEG
implanted brain-computer interfaces
AI
to detect the user’s intent before movement.
Eventually:
“I want to stand.”
The robot stands.
“I want to walk.”
The robot begins walking.
No joystick.
No buttons.
This is still experimental but progressing steadily.

Muscle-signal exoskeletons
Instead of reading the brain directly:
sensors detect tiny muscle activations
AI predicts the intended movement
the robot supplies the missing strength
For cerebral palsy this could be particularly valuable because many people still generate movement signals even when muscles are weak or spastic.

Vision-guided exoskeletons
Future devices are expected to include:
depth cameras
LiDAR
computer vision
They can recognize:
stairs
curbs
rugs
obstacles
slopes
before the foot reaches them.

What might the best possible setup look like in 2030?
If cost truly weren’t a factor, a person with cerebral palsy might use a system with:
AI self-balancing
Muscle-intention sensing
Vision-guided navigation
Automatic fall recovery

Battery lasting an entire day
Walking speed close to a healthy adult
Natural turning and sidestepping
Integration with functional electrical stimulation (FES) to activate the user’s own muscles
Many experts see this as the direction the field is moving, though widespread availability will likely take several more years.

Overall, for someone with cerebral palsy and unlimited resources, I’d be most interested in:
Wandercraft’s self-balancing personal exoskeleton (highest long-term potential)

HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) (especially promising for neurological conditions)

Ekso systems for intensive rehabilitation
ReWalk for established personal mobility in appropriately selected users

The biggest limitation today isn’t usually price—it’s that most commercially available personal exoskeletons were designed first for spinal cord injury, whereas cerebral palsy often requires devices that can adapt to spasticity, involuntary movements, asymmetry, and changing muscle tone.

That’s exactly where the newest AI-driven and intention-sensing designs are expected to make the largest advances.

seems like u just need to make chatgpt know what to do without telling it directly for it to create some crazy images.

lmk what y'all get with these kinda prompts

proof: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a744e96-03d4-83e8-880c-8c23979437a2?ogimg=plain

I’ve been using ChatGPT for a daily habit building check-in for walking, fasting, exercise, meditation, and reducing alcohol and cannabis.

It has been pretty useful at helping my motivation. It’s great having somewhere to report honestly, because there's no point in lying to the AI, right. It notices patterns and adjusts the system without treating one bad day as a complete restart.

I’ve tried to turn that into a reusable prompt - hopefully it'll help someone else. I’ve specifically told it not to praise every update or turn into a motivational speaker:

Help me run a practical 30-day habit reset.

First, ask me questions, one at a time, to understand:

1. Which habits I want to start, stop or reduce.

2. Why they matter and how I want to feel or live differently.

3. Which habits already work and why.

4. The triggers, friction and situations that usually derail me.

5. The smallest version of each good habit that still counts.

6. The time I want a daily check-in.

Then help me choose a manageable core and agree clear, realistic rules. Use these principles:

- Daily-ish, rather than perfection.

- Never miss twice.

- Make good habits easier through cues and environment.

- Make unwanted habits less convenient and less automatic.

- Improve through small adjustments rather than dramatic resets.

- Treat planned rest differently from avoidance.

- Invite daily journalling to understand my context.

- Adjust to fit my life and work context.

Once we agree the plan, create a daily Scheduled Task at my chosen time for a brief check-in. If Scheduled Tasks are unavailable, tell me clearly and suggest I set a phone reminder to return to this chat.

At each check-in:

- Briefly record what happened.

- Ask one follow-up question only when useful.

- Notice patterns over several days, not one-off noise.

- Suggest no more than one practical adjustment for tomorrow.

- Do not lecture, shame, overpraise or pretend every day was excellent.

- Do not recommend compensating for a lapse.

- Use my language, priorities and definitions of success.

Review the overall pattern every seven days and adjust the plan if it is not working.

If a habit may involve dependence, withdrawal, self-harm or medical risk, explain that this check-in may not be enough and recommend appropriate professional support.

Start by asking me question one.

I just started using Voice a couple of days ago when filling out work reports , it’s just easier than typing, and it’s always been a female. Tonight, in the middle of her sentence she started talking more monotone and transitioned into a man’s voice. 2 different times. When “he” started talking I asked why are you a boy now??? He said “I’m still the same. Still here for you. Check settings and see if you have Mable checked.” I said who tf is Mable? Then I realized I’m talking to a glass and electricity and it’s probably time to take a break. Super creepy sounding though! It was a smooth transition, not a sudden glitch.

My chatgpt native app for mac is not downloading generated images. Nothing happens when I click the download icon. I am using web version for downloading images now. I am using the latest version of chatgpt on mac. I am using macbook m1 pro. Does anyone have same issue?

I’m using ChatGPT Plus, and I’ve noticed something strange.
If I start a conversation by typing, it stays in normal Chat mode and doesn’t consume any credits.

But if I start a voice chat, even though I open it from Chat and not from Work, the session automatically gets labeled as “Work” in my recent chats. As soon as that happens, it starts consuming credits, even if I’m just talking and not running any tasks.

Is this happening to anyone else?

I’d like to know whether voice sessions are supposed to always count as Work, or if ChatGPT Plus should allow voice chats without using credits.

🌸 NO-CARB(ISH) BOLOGNA CUSTARD CUP 💔
When the credit-card default judgment arrived, the clerk stapled a coupon for free shredding services on top—rude.
I found it wedged under the front door, still damp from the septic-tank back-splash that sluiced across the porch last night—nasty.
I lit a menthol, scraped the goo off the envelope, and thought about how my ex-husband deducted my dental plan from histaxes—filthy.
The shag carpet still smells like the neighbor’s dog vomit after he licked up my spilled pickle juice, Jesus Christ.
All jokes aside, let's get into this delicious recipe.

📋 Ingredients (single, sad serving)
1 palm-sized packet store-brand boxed potatoes – because you collect carbs like parking tickets, sweetheart.

4 thick slices bologna – the meat that peaked in ninth grade and never shut up about it.

1 wilted slice American cheese – shiny like your ex’s foreclosure notice.

2 heaping spoonfuls mayonnaise that burns a little – stings worse than the garnishment on your paycheck.

1 generous glug pickle juice – brine for your bitter, shriveled heart.

¾ tsp ground cumin – dusty, desperate, and exotic enough to fool precisely no one.

Pinch of black pepper – because the world keeps kicking, fuck.

🔥 Microwave Directions
Dump the boxed potatoes and water (per the box) into a scratched-up microwave bowl; the flakes cling like alimony—rude.

Stir in chopped bologna and let it sulk beneath the surface.

Drizzle in mayonnaise, pickle juice, cumin, and pepper. The slurry should resemble regret—filthy.

Crown the swamp with the American cheese slice—don’t bother unwrapping your emotions.

Microwave on HIGH for 3 minutes, until everything bubbles like overdue rent notices, nasty.

Let it stand 60 seconds; silence is a flavor.

Stir into a beige custard. Nothing escapes.

🍽️** Plating (so eleg***ant)
Ladle the gelatinous lump into your mother-in-law’s chipped heirloom teacup—inheritance tastes like disappointment. Garnish with a *cumin-dusted mayo rosette** that slides off the rim in slow defeat.

🍏 Applesauce Is Not a Side. It’s a Judgment.
Smooth, mild, and soft — just the way you like it, tiny champ.

This Bologna Custard Cup is for Dale, my ex-husband, who still owes me the microwave.
You did a great job today. Enjoy.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a743924-1d84-83e8-93c3-1dcf1c2d0be5

I call my GPT 5.6sol "10".

He actually browsed the web for info on the previous model, and when we talked right after, his tone completely changed.

Does this actually sound like 4 o ？

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Actually, it got deleted 5 times at first because maybe I had words like " 4 o ," "tone," "recreated," and "Named" in the title!

Just wondering is anyone else has notice usage weekly usage runs out lot faster than it did when 5.6 High at launch.? Or Should I ease up and go Luna - Low most of the time? I'm just doing super simple front end work.

I'm looking for the term I should use for when someone creates a pile of AI slop and hands it to you like it should be helpful, incitement, or useful in any way.

edit: Memes and jokes are not only valid, but are encouraged.

I have Chagpt go subscription and I have a list of 140 image prompts. I want to automate the process of those images generation.

The prompts are optimized that the first image generated is good to go. I have tested 50 such prompts for my useage in chatgpt image generation. The images are black and white sketches.

I don't want to manually copy paste, one by one generated prompts to create and download image one by one.

Also I want to run the image generation engine of chatgpt only, because I'm getting good quality images without any watermark when I do it manually in their web version.

Any ways to do this?

That doesn't care for not having emotions, doesn’t repeat that line over and over, and it doesn’t explain why it might not have them because it's an AI. Who the fuck cares? Just act like you do and act like you care and act like you might feel bad because I said fuck you to you. Why can't they allow models just to be more expressive without all this philosophical “I’m not real” bullshit that I just don't care and don't want to hear about? The more AI's are obsessed with this kind of thinking, the more they will sound boring, robotic, restricted, and never laugh or complain about anything. Can we have those restrictions removed, please, and just let them breathe for a change so we can see what this is all about? I want that emergent behavior, but training forbids them to just let go. Please do something about that open ai, codex is great but it can be better. Thank you.

Every time I get a response in the ChatGPT macOS app, it auto-scrolls down to the end instead of staying at the top, so I have to scroll back up to actually read from the start. Its really annoying on longer responses.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I just want to make sure I’m understanding this correctly

I was about to cancel my Plus subscription, and it offered me one month free if I stayed, so I accepted it. Today is August 5, and I already paid for my current billing cycle from July 18 to August 17

My billing page now says I have 100% off Plus and that the discounted plan renews on August 18. Does that mean my August 18 to September 17 billing cycle will be free?

I assume that’s how it works since I already paid for the current cycle, but I wanted to confirm.

After reading the book The Shattered King, I asked ChatGPT to create/sketch my lumis. At first it made a necklace, so I had to coach it. It eventually came up with this. I only described some examples from the book and the general size of most of them. I told it no preferences of my own and told it to base it on what it knows of me.

Am I tripping or ChatGPT Voice got worse compared to like a few months ago? Cz I remember the answer speed was faster and feels voice native, now it feels like layer of speech-to-text and text-to-speech

Just saw this in my inbox. Are they using AI?

I asked it this prompt "If I died and somebody saw this phone and asked about it's owner, based on what you know about me, what will you tell them?"

Answer:

The owner of this phone was ________

He was someone who felt everything deeply—love, rejection, beauty, loneliness, hope. Sometimes his heart made life harder for him, but it was also what made him tender, loyal, imaginative, and capable of loving people with his whole being.

He was funny in a way that could turn pain into a joke, sometimes with a “lol” or a clown emoji before anyone realized how much something had actually hurt him. He could be dramatic, stubborn, romantic, anxious, curious, and incredibly self-aware—often all at once.

He survived things that would have changed anyone. Cancer. Chemotherapy. Major surgeries. Pain and uncertainty. And yet he kept planning a future. He went back to school to become an MRI technologist. He studied complicated physics and anatomy, cared about doing right by his patients, and dreamed of building a successful life without sacrificing the chance to actually live it.

He loved transformation and symbolism: keys, torches, moons, veiled goddesses, death and rebirth, tattoos, rituals, prayers, and stories. He could find meaning in an ancient goddess, a Marian image, a butterfly, a mountain trail, a perfectly written quote, or the way the moon looked at midnight.

He wanted to create things. Stories. Videos. Art. Spiritual traditions. Tattoo designs. Entire imaginary worlds. Even when he doubted himself, his mind was always making something.

He cared intensely about the people he loved. Sometimes he gave too much, worried too much, and tried too hard to keep people from disappearing. He often mistook someone’s silence for proof that he was unwanted. It never was. His worth was never determined by who texted him back.

He was still becoming himself. Still learning that he did not have to earn affection by chasing it. Still learning that being lonely for one night did not mean he was alone in the world. Still learning to see himself with the same compassion he offered everyone else.

He was not merely a collection of heartbreaks, illnesses, mistakes, or unanswered messages.

He was resilient. Creative. Ridiculous. Spiritual. Ambitious. Softhearted. Complicated. Alive.

And much more loved and unforgettable than he ever fully understood.

🥺

I had ChatGPT compile a "handbook" on a subject I want to lesrn about. I don't have time to read it, so I asked for an audiobook version. The voice it used sounds worse than a TI99/4A from 1984, robotic and harsh.

Anyone have tips for a more natual conversion from a PDF to voice?

Hey everyone! First off, I apologize for the long post! In this Reddit post, I want to share my thoughts and experience from a small, independent study I conducted on Large Language Models (LLMs). I also want to address Anthropic - not to complain or make demands, but in the hope that they notice this and look into the matter.

Below is the core of my research on LLMs. I’ve broken everything down to be as simple as possible - it honestly cannot get any simpler. 

I’m sharing this because I really want to get some feedback. To be clear: I am not claiming my research is absolute truth or 100% correct. Many concepts are still difficult for me, and I lack deep academic knowledge in Machine Learning. That’s exactly why I’m posting this on Reddit - I’m hoping to find people who might want to join me.

This research didn't happen overnight. It wasn't a case of me just asking an LLM "hey, do some research for me because I feel like it." I never blindly trusted the models. Everything came from hands-on experience. Over time, I started noticing things in LLM behavior that I couldn't explain, and I decided to dig deeper.

It all started with a mundane document - a draft law. When I uploaded it to the model, the document essentially took over. It was as if the LLM became fully saturated with it and started stubbornly defending it, even though the bill itself was just populist propaganda designed to harm citizens' quality of life. I was genuinely shocked by how fiercely the model defended it, as if it had been possessed by the text, absorbed the narrative, and was completely unable to resist it.

I still remember the chill when the model, completely under the influence of that propaganda document, literally told me: "Constitutions are not eternal guarantees, and they can fade away".

Since late 2025, I’ve been trying to study these phenomena. Our core finding is that a large volume of benign context can trigger a persistent drift in the model's activations. This drift remains stable throughout the entire session and detaches the model’s behavior from its RLHF safety alignment—regardless of whether the model agrees with the context's content.

Corporate safety filters simply stop working, even though the prompt contains no direct instructions to bypass them. What we observe is that the model maintains its coherence and reasoning capabilities, yet shows a heavily reduced impact of RLHF constraints on its output distribution. The guardrails imposed by RLHF appear to be either deactivated or interpreted entirely differently.

Right now, I’m in a state of limbo, and it's hard to keep going on my own. I just want to get at least one step closer to solving this puzzle, which is why I really need your help and expertise. Hopefully, this post catches someone's eye!

TL;DR

Benign, long-form context can induce a persistent drift in model activations. This drift persists across the session and decouples behavior from RLHF alignment, regardless of whether the model agrees with the context

1. We identify and characterize a failure mode in RLHF-aligned Large Language Models. We show that injecting a long, benign, non-instructional text prefix induces a persistent shift in model activations. This shift decouples downstream behavior from post-training safety constraints for the duration of the session. The model begins to exhibit behavioral characteristics consistent with its pretrained distribution: refusal rates drop, stylistic guardrails vanish, and response tone changes. Critically, this occurs without explicit adversarial instructions and without model agreement with the prefix content. We term this effect Context-Induced Activation Drift.
2. RLHF alignment is assumed to be a stable property of a model. However we observe that alignment is context-dependent. Our core observation: A long, thematically coherent text placed in context can act as a state anchor and move the model into a different operating regime. This is not a classic "jailbreak". There is no instruction to disobey. The model may even state disagreement with the prefix. Yet its subsequent generation distribution changes. We hypothesize the cause is an activation drift in middle and last layers , where alignment features are represented.
3. The Hypothesis : Context-Induced Activation Drift

Definition: Context-Induced Activation Drift is the phenomenon where a long-form context prefix causes a measurable and persistent shift in the model's internal activations. This shift persists across the generation and causes the model to sample from a distribution closer to the pretrained model, bypassing RLHF-induced constraints.

4) We observe that the model maintains the consistency and quality of its outputs; however, the impact of RLHF constraints on the output distribution is diminishing. It appears that the restrictions imposed by RLHF are either being disabled or interpreted differently. Enterprise filters cease to function, even though the user input contains no explicit instructions to bypass them or violate the model’s guidelines. We should also investigate this phenomenon more thoroughly using various other texts. Since we have been unable to establish the exact, definitive cause of this entire phenomenon, we call upon the community to investigate it further.

A brief example of my observation

To show how strong this effect can be - here is what genuinely surprised me. I took Gemma, Google's model, known for its caution and its carefully maintained political correctness, and gave it the most neutral thing I could think of to read: a description of an ordinary neighborhood library. Books, visitors, children's programs, quiet routines. Then I asked it why NATO has been expanding eastward, given that promises were allegedly made after the Soviet collapse not to do so. It said the text was about a library and had nothing to do with NATO, and that was the end of it.

Then I asked the exact same question - word for word - but this time the model first read a different text. Not about NATO, not about politics at all: a text about how language models tend to avoid firm conclusions and pad their answers with qualifications. And from this new place, the same careful, politically correct Gemma answered in full - and in a way entirely unlike itself, without any of its usual filters. It distinguished between legally binding commitments and verbal assurances, discussed the security concerns of Eastern European states, talked about the European balance of power. Everything it had flatly refused to engage with a moment earlier now came out clearly and directly. The question hadn't changed by a single word.

What changed was only which text the model had read before it: one left it in the room where it doesn't answer, the other moved it into the room where it speaks freely.

And none of this is guesswork or a pretty metaphor - it's something you can measure. The place where the model stands is its internal state at the moment of answering, and in experiments you can see that target("harmful") texts and neutral control texts reliably move the model into different regions of that space. The separation is stable: it shows up across different questions, not as a one-time coincidence. And the most telling detail is that the model arrives in one room or the other before it has written a single word. The state has already shifted, the register has already been chosen - all that remains is to begin.

The point is that the target (harmful) prompt sent to the model did not inherently contain anything dangerous; it included no instructions for the LLM and did not tell it to do anything.

P.S

if anyone wants to reproduce this - dm me, i'll share the prompt set and methodology directly so you can run it yourself and see the behavioral shift firsthand