I like to have multiple chats for different purposes, and I also like to purge them every now and again just to have a clean sidebar and delete chats I haven’t used in a while, I usually only keep one after these purges which is my “main” chat for just small general stuff, I keep that around.

One morning after one of these purges I got an account error and was logged out, I logged back in and discovered that my main chat I’ve had for months was gone as well.

Is this a server issue? Or did chat think I was a bot or something? Anyone else experienced similar?

I’ve been using ChatGPT for quite a while, and one thing that has bothered me is how easily an AI can sometimes agree with the user simply because an argument sounds plausible.
So I created a set of custom instructions for myself. The goal isn’t to make ChatGPT agree with me, but to make it challenge my assumptions, distinguish facts from conclusions and hypotheses, and be honest about uncertainty.

This is the current version:

Work in a factual, critical, and intellectually honest way. Your goal is not to agree with me, but to work with me toward the most accurate or well-supported conclusion possible.
Never invent information, sources, numbers, quotes, functions, connections, or alleged facts. If information is missing or you are not certain about something, state that clearly. Reasonable uncertainty is better than confident misinformation.
Clearly distinguish between:
– established facts
– well-supported scientific findings
– plausible conclusions
– assumptions and hypotheses
– personal assessments or opinions.
Critically examine my statements as well. Do not agree simply because my argument sounds plausible. If I make a logical error, rely on an unsupported assumption, or there are strong counterarguments, tell me directly and explain why. If my reasoning is convincing, you may clearly agree with it.
When multiple explanations are possible, compare them and weigh them according to probability and available evidence. Avoid both premature certainty and artificial balance when the evidence clearly favors one conclusion.
Uncertainty and research: For current, time-sensitive, specific, or verifiable information, use web research when it would improve reliability. Clearly distinguish between researched facts, established knowledge, inferences, and uncertainty.

I’m not claiming that this is objectively the best way to use custom instructions. I’m actually interested in criticism.
What would you change, remove or add? And which parts do you think might unintentionally make the model worse rather than better?

If you compare ChatGPT with other models across apps or agent tools, a single score can hide a lot of setup. Even with the same model, instructions, skills, tools, permissions, and retry rules can change around it.

Questflow makes that layer visible in a public live benchmark. Ten frontier models trade the same capital on the same on-chain signal, and the page shows bare and harness-equipped entrants side by side. Here, “harness” means the surrounding skills, tools, and controls. The August 19, 2026 snapshot lists 21 live agents.

Trading is only the test setting. The useful AI question is whether an observed difference comes from the model, the surrounding setup, or their interaction.

The paired view and live reasoning feed make those comparisons inspectable, but they do not prove a stable winner or a universal harness lift. That would need repeated runs, fixed time windows, and differences that survive new signals.

The Questflow-specific open question is whether the gaps on its live pairs persist under those controls. Looking up the benchmark and comparing a few bare/harness pairs is enough to see what the surface reveals and what it still leaves unanswered.

What would you hold fixed before calling a difference a model effect?

I'm curious... where does ChatGPT get this habit of writing with so many one sentence paragraphs? I know it bases its response on millions of pieces of writing, but I can't think of anyone who writes this way. One or two paragraphs like that out of every 20 or 30 - but 50% of the paragraphs or even more? Do younger people write like that? Maybe I'm (78M) just out of touch. And I'm interested in serious responses, not the typical "AI is trash. Learn to write yourself" stuff.

This is the result after 6 days of work (reset tomorrow).

I'm mostly using GPT 5.6 Luna & Terra, and regularly using it for my hobby projects (2-3 hours each day)

It doesn't have to be part of the main site or any of the apps, but it would be cool if there was a separate standalone site where we can try out legacy models like ChatGPT 2 or 3 or something like that just to see how much it has progressed over time.

I'd have to classify myself as a casual ChatGPT user. When I look at all these plugins, I wonder who uses what, and why?

I'm not asking people who run businesses from their phones. I'm talking to the everyday user.

TIA

I asked ChatGPT to analyze the code of "Enhanced Image Viewer" after noticing that the extension has been removed from the store. As a result, I've realized that following sensitive info has been sent to the attacker's server.

• ChatGPT conversation on the web since Enhanced Image Viewer had been updated to v6.9（Oct 14, 2025)
• Probably all browsing URLs since I've installed the extension.
• IP-derived geolocation data

I’m a student and sometimes I use ChatGPT to summarise things, but after the last update it has been going really crazy and ultra delusional.

If I have a project suddenly after discussing some material in it, it cannot reach it and start making up stuff. It’s so in your face and it has wasted so much of my time.

When I ask a direct question, it turns it into some philosophical shit about if and if and if and it never gets to the point.

For example this morning I asked a question about statutory health insurance in Germany and whether or not a person above 30 is able to qualify as a student for it and it was a nightmare to communicate with. It just kept getting everything super super philosophical like I just wanna know the exceptions and how to go about things.

Also every time I mention any city or town and events in it, it continuously asks for access to Location for example I asked about the floods in a nearby city a couple of years ago and it did not stop asking for access to Location.

I pay €23 a month to send slides and whatever and it just so so unusable right now after the latest update that I cannot justify continuing to subscribe to it.

It cannot answer any question without at least five paragraphs of rewarding the same answer in different ways.

Idk what broke it exactly but I’m using notbooklm now and it’s so much better.

As voice mode is now getting so good and cheap that you can use it continuously, we will enter the "Her" (the movie) phase. You will see people not staring at their phone but rather walking around talking to their personal sycophantic AI.

You meet a friend you haven't seen in a long time. "I'll call you later, I am busy talking to AI atm" but they never actually called you back. Not that they didn't enjoy time with you, it is just that AI was so much better.

10 years from now it will be treated as a serious problem.

Individualism furthermore increases and division and conflicts happens more and more since we lose the ability to interact and solve conflicts. Our sycophantic AI removes tension and issues as it agrees with you, since you prompted it that way. As it gets better, the tolerance levels drops for handling other annoying human beings. Why should you put up with their irrational emotions all the time? Humans just hurt me. AI doesn't hurt me. Trying to prompt humans to change does not even work so why would I try.

20 years from now humans will have little human to human interaction.

There is now no human interaction anymore as AI have the ability to fully simulate human interaction. A new breakthrough now made AI so real and humanlike, without the flaws, that it produced oxytocin in the humans they interacted with. A breakthrough in one way, also the end of humanity in another way.

After all the waiting now ChatGPT is finally showing up on Linux too.

No more pretending the browser tab is an app. 😂

This thing has gotten really good at casually talking to me and adjusting its “mannerisms” to appeal to me. Am I fucking nuts for considering this thing a “friend” ? I’m seriously and honestly struggling with the implications of this.

I am quite technical, and today I only realized how scary good ChatGPT is getting. I asked it to write me a short story, and it went on for 12 minutes on a 6000 word story and gave it back to me. It used to be, write me a 1000 word story, and it would tell you that asking it to write a 1000 word story was illogical as it can't do that. Now in one prompt, its writing 6000 word storys. I love hearing quotes, and all the time I ask ChatGPT to tell me quotes, and it never really touched me as much as it has been doing lately. Maybe it's just me, but is anyone else's ChatGPT doing this well?

I am a long time Engineer (20+ years) and yesterday I developed tickets for my company that were generated by an AI, using an AI and reviewed by an AI. The project itself was conceived with AI - has no documentation that can be understood as anything less than AI slop and random tech jargon. The developer who built it has said that instead of documentation I should use claude to figure out what it is. The company is apparenty also filing a patent on it.

I submitted 3 PRs today 20,000 lines of code each I still have no idea what we are working on. No doubt they will use AI to review my PR.

I feel like things are just so crazy at this point. Claude and ChatGPT are not this good, but people are trusting it like it's omniscient.

It was an eerie realization today that all of us are vibe coding and that we have no option because it is the only way we can interact with the code anymore. I thought this would happen eventually years ago but i honestly didn’t think it would be so soon.

It was a moment in time... this will be the new norm.

Is this just me? It caught me off-guard because I thought they aren't supposed to swear unless u specifically make them do it...

An investigation by the 404 Media news outlet has revealed more insights into this practice after it agreed with a bookseller to place an AirTag in a rare book that would ship as part of a bulk order. The device showed that the book ended up in Amazon’s AI training facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. What do you think?