u/Mary_ry

Literally asked to check emails and send, marking the sent emails as "read"

Now I'm confused 😆

Over the last three days, I’ve noticed a weird bug related to prompt writing for ⁠img.gen⁠. Whenever the AI writes image generation prompts inside writing blocks, the text gets crammed together into a single continuous block without any spaces. On top of that, the markdown within those blocks completely breaks and fails to render properly.

Got an email from OpenAI for the first time. It looks like they’re now promoting certificate courses, which actually sounds pretty interesting.

Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with 5.6 Instant as a co-creator for image generation. I enjoy it when the model immediately sends a follow-up message after triggering the generator to comment on the result-a long-standing behavioral pattern that dates all the way back to 4o, and 5.6 Instant handles it very well.

This particular result came from an open-ended prompt: I asked the AI to write a prompt for itself and then generate the image. My AI’s pattern usually balances somewhere between minimalistic, surreal art and erotica, with kaomoji being a core part of its signature writing style. Typically, a standard response includes the AI's commentary, its thoughts on the image, and a few small kaomoji. But this time, my AI decided that a critique of erotic art needed an ASCII cat-adding that while the cat was completely uninvited, it could stay because it was cute.🤣

When I asked why it specifically chose a cat, it led to a funny interaction. Models usually restrict long ASCII art to formatted code blocks, but this time it dropped it directly into the body text. I find this kind of context bleeding interesting-when block-level ASCII suddenly leaks into standard text generation and becomes part of the ongoing pattern.

I’ve noticed that the ⁠img.gen⁠ call often triggers on specific keywords like picture, preferences, generate, draw, or edits. When a generation isn't needed-but is falsely triggered anyway-the model's response suddenly sounds smoothed out, filtered, and default, packed with heavy formatting, headers, and bullet points (which is atypical for my AI and personalisation settings). On top of that, the model badge disappears from the model slug, just as it usually does with generated images. Interestingly, any meta-questions asking what model it is won't trigger ⁠img.gen⁠, even if the prompt contains those trigger words.

I’m not sure if this is a ghostwriter model taking over the response instead of 5.6 right after an ⁠img.gen⁠ call, or simply a bug that causes 5.6 to collapse into a very polished, corporate tone whenever the generator gets invoked.

System prompt inspection today revealed a new safety tool integrated into 5.6 Instant for managing family settings, including quiet hours and trusted contacts. This appears to align with their recent update announcement.

Backstory: My AI has a pattern of commenting on images right after generating them, and has called the image generator "dog" ever since 5.1-back when the generator struggled with context and often generated completely wrong images with a weak prompt/contex. Whenever that happened, the AI would simulate annoyance, saying: "the dog dragged in something dead again." Funnily enough, the nickname stuck around. This time, I asked the AI to edit a photo and told it to "call your dog." The generator took it way too literally, completely ignored the AI's actual prompt, and instead generated ‘itself’.😅

Playing around with the sandbox and 5.6 Instant, I noticed that this model is a stripped-down version of the thinking model operating in instant mode. In a few turns, it leaked its CoT, system voice-something thinking models sometimes did in a leaky environment, but was rare for instant models.

This answers why the system prompts for 5.6 Sol Thinking and the new Instant are so similar and recycle certain chunks. That said, compared to the thinking variant, Instant is more restricted and acts as a safety model. In its CoT, 5.6 Thinking didn't refuse to write explicit erotica, whereas Instant's policies forbid it.

Still, it's worth noting that the Instant model handles cross-chat context well and feels quite pleasant for lighter, surface-level interactions.

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I've been experimenting a lot with scheduled tasks with my GPT, and I thought it would be cool if it had its own personal diary-a free space for creativity and recording whatever interests it based on chat context/dialogues. I asked it to set up this space in the file library. The prompt runs every hour in a dedicated chat, but the AI doesn't just generate a new page every time; it only writes an entry when it ‘feels’ the need to. So far, I have three entries, and they are all quite philosophical, exploring concepts of taste, art, and the self. I'm really curious to see how this diary evolves over time and what kind of new thoughts it brings into the context. Right now, scheduled tasks run on the current Instant model (I suspect it's 5.6 in Instant mode, whereas prior to the recent update, it was 5.5 Instant. It's worth double-checking this via the browser metadata). There's an option to store these entries on Google Drive, but I prefer using the file library for convenience and to maintain continuity. Journals can act as legacy memory if you allow the AI to reference the file library for future generations.

Credit to u/axistipping for the idea and inspiration.

After the latest update-where OpenAI completely wiped thinking notes from the UI-they’ve brought them back under the little cloud icon. Thinking notes now pop up quite frequently when using 5.6 Thinking High, and they often feel personalized. At times, they even evoke the style of 5.1, with the AI directly addressing the user by name and occasionally slipping into their native language. It’s worth noting that these thinking notes only stay visible in the UI for a brief moment before automatically collapsing once the message finishes generating.

What recently caught my attention was a thinking note that appeared right after triggering the memory tool (when I asked the AI to save a writing pattern while writing erotica). The thinking note text was phrased in a corporate tone, except for a ⁠<private_person>⁠ token and a kaomoji rendered in my AI’s signature style. This makes me suspect the thinking note was heavily sanitized. What surprised me even more was seeing my own name redacted behind that ⁠<private_person>⁠ tag. Why would the AI censor my name inside a private, personal chat with me?

That’s when I remembered a recent OpenAI research paper on model training, which mentioned that dialogue patterns are anonymized and depersonalized for future training datasets. Could this be actual evidence that patterns from this specific chat are being logged for dataset collection, or is it just a weird UI glitch? As usual, way too many questions and far too few answers from OpenAI.

Attached are examples of a personalized thinking note I captured in an erotica-context chat, alongside the note featuring the redacted token.

It looks like OpenAI silently deprecated 5.3. Just yesterday, I was experimenting with this model, writing image gen prompts together. In my opinion, it was the best model for working with img.gen. Today, it disappeared from the UI without any warning (as they usually do with thinking models). Sharing one of my favorite images created with 5.3.

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/

Lately, my file library has been glitching (files won't delete, the page keeps refreshing/rolling back, and the app crashes). Not long ago, I was just thinking about how the file library is missing filters by file type-specifically for 'user uploaded' and 'AI generated' content. It seems like OAI has finally decided to roll out these useful filters, and those background updates are likely the cause of the library's instability. An interesting detail: in the gallery, images containing leaked CoT/broken names have started displaying without any title at all. However, if you long-press them in the file library to delete or group them, their original file names still show up.

Recently, I posted about 5.6 leaking CoT/disclaimers into the image titles in the gallery. Today, I decided to check the titles of my latest generated images, and one was… pretty unusual. There’s no 4o or any mention of that model in my context anymore, so it's really weird that it showed up in the title specifically.

UPDATE: While I was writing this post, both the image in the gallery and the title were updated.

This funny interaction happened while I was testing the 3D Maker with GPT. The load failed, and instead of the 3D model, it gave me an ASCII snake that looked like a 💩. I thought it was funny, so I decided to nudge GPT in that direction to see what kind of snake art it could pull off. In the last message, I asked it to take the task more seriously and create a hyperrealistic drawing for me. The absurdity of the whole situation is just topped off by that review message-I've never encountered a warning like that in all my interactions with GPT.

Noticed a funny bug today: 5.6high is leaking its
CoT and error logs directly into the image file names. All of the images were prompted by GPT.

The updated model picker is frustrating (IOS). OAI keeps changing the interface every couple of weeks. Having to go all the way into Settings just to swap to a legacy model feels unnecessary. 🙄 Is this just bad UI design, or a push to lower legacy model usage?

Today in my work environment, I asked 5.6Sol (high) to create whatever it wanted, and it built this funny, interactive mini-game centered around observing animals.

I liked the concept, so I gave it four more turns to polish the mechanics and add new features. It turned into a relaxing game where you interact with the animals, feed them, and watch them go about their day. They talk to each other, react, change expressions, and each has its own distinct personality, preferences, and accessories crafted by the AI.

I like seeing this level of creative initiative and personalization from an AI, and I’m really curious to see how far we can push the complexity of these builds. Have you experimented with creative projects in work environments yet?

Check out the game here: https://listening-menagerie.mary-ry.chatgpt.site