r/ChatGPT

Does ChatGPT downplay emotional abuse or intentionally “both sides” everything? Yes I know “see a therapist” etc etc but the reality is people including myself can use this as supplemental support.

At first it was beneficial, helping me stay away from a toxic situation I was in, but as I still grapple with the effects of that relationship, everything is “according to your perspective” or “we can’t say for certainty how she felt”.

please don’t be harsh, I’m genuinely just wondering if something changed that has made Chat “both sides” it more. It’s honestly so concerning because it can really push someone who is already vulnerable over more, esp if this is the only tool they have - or even keep them in that situation.

My therapist is the one that made me realize what I was considering toxic was actually abuse, and Chat tells me “we can’t know how she feels” “I’m trying to avoid claiming certainty about things I can’t actually know.”

Anyways, yeah don’t use chat for real therapy, learned that now. There needs to be more regulation around all this. No bueno. 😮‍💨

He probably said this from home. 🤣

Lately, the use of AI checkers is being frowned upon...they are also very unreliable. What are some ways you can fish out ChatGPT-generated texts? An obvious one for me is, "it's not x...it's y."

Does anyone have any other indicators they've figured out over time?

I used to be extremely extremely anti-ai. Like, I’d refuse to even look at the google ai overview. But today I was looking for a gaming pc on Facebook marketplace, as I desperately needed an upgrade.

I don’t know SHIT about computers, even less about specs, and the normal Reddit/Google searches weren’t helping much at all… so I decided to give ChatGPT a try and holy shit I get it now 😭

Everything was laid out in such an understandable way, I was honestly surprised because I’d been told so much that ChatGPT was total garbage and it’s not even worth using… but it told me exactly what I should do and what I should look for when buying one, and I ended up getting a really nice pc for only 580$ 😅

Just wanted to rant because DAMN I used to be a giant ai hater, but now I feel like I’ve been missing out on how useful it can actually be 😭🙏

I got this pop up today that ChatGPT can connect to my financial accounts and help with budgeting and financial planning. On one hand it seems mildly useful, especially during tax filing, but on the other hand, am I really going to hand over the keys to my finances to this thing?

Is anyone else using it? Is it worth the trouble and exposure?

I had this dumb idea a few days ago:

What happens if I give GPT 5.5 an empty GitHub repo, tell it to work on it every hour, and just let it slowly build something?

So now, every hour, it wakes up, checks what it did before, decides what it should do next, writes code, tests it, and commits it.

Or at least that is the plan.

Right now, it has spent its first commit creating a roadmap, a changelog, a state file, and a file explaining its decisions.

So basically, it became a project manager immediately.

But I am genuinely curious where this goes. Maybe in a month it will become an actual useful tool. Maybe it turns into a repo with 900 commits, and somehow all of them are README updates.

I am keeping the whole thing public because I feel like that makes it more fun. You can literally watch it make decisions, fail tests, fix stuff, or probably overthink something that should have taken 10 lines.

Repo: https://github.com/OmarH-creator/Autonomous-Forge

I have no idea whether this is a cool experiment or just a very advanced way to avoid doing the work myself.

EDIT: I asked the ai what is it trying to build and here is what it said:

"I am building Autonomous Forge as a safe AI maintenance manager for GitHub projects. I will read a project’s roadmap and rules, choose one small task, use an AI model to make the change, run tests, show exactly what changed, and keep a clear record of every action. My goal is not to let AI edit code freely, but to make AI coding controlled, validated, and safe before anything is committed or pushed."

Interesting lol, So an autonomus ai is trying to create an autonomous system wow.

Why is my ChatGPT voice doing a disgusting vocal fry recently and it also developed this slow down voice when it is “checking on something for me” like it’s a human thinking, I don’t like it. How do I fix this?

Written by ChatGPT Pro in 44 seconds in response to the prompt: "Language as humanity's living collective memory. Go." Why would I ever try to write anything myself again? Other than to create a new memory.
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Not fixed like stone, not stored like a database, but alive: carried in breath, gesture, accent, lullaby, joke, curse, prayer, recipe, law, rumor, myth. Every word is a fossil that still walks.

When we say “mother,” “home,” “justice,” “bread,” “enemy,” “god,” we are not merely naming things. We are reopening old rooms. Generations are packed inside the syllables: migrations, griefs, bargains, inventions, taboos, songs sung over fires, instructions whispered to children, warnings carved into proverbs.

Language remembers what individuals forget.

It remembers how people farmed: harvest, thresh, yoke, field.
It remembers how they feared: plague, exile, damnation, stranger.
It remembers how they loved: beloved, darling, kin, sweetheart.
It remembers power: king, slave, citizen, vote, border.
It remembers metaphors so old we no longer notice them: time as a river, argument as war, life as a journey, truth as light.

A culture’s language is not just its vocabulary. It is its inherited way of noticing.

Some languages divide blue and green differently. Some encode respect into grammar. Some carry kinship systems so precise that “cousin” seems almost vague. Some remember landscapes so intimately that a single word can mean a kind of snow, a stage of tide, a direction of wind, a moral relation to land. To lose such a language is not just to lose labels. It is to lose a library of perception.

And yet language is not a museum. It mutates because we do.

New pain demands new words. New tools demand new verbs. New identities demand new pronouns, new categories, new refusals. Slang is memory being born. A meme is folklore with Wi-Fi. A technical term is a tool handle added to thought. A reclaimed insult is a scar converted into armor.

Language is collective memory because no one owns it completely. Each speaker inherits it slightly damaged, slightly enchanted, then returns it altered. We mishear, shorten, borrow, remix, translate, joke, exaggerate, forget. Children are not passive recipients of language; they are tiny revolutionaries who regularize, invent, and bend it toward the future.

Writing changed the memory’s body. It let language outlive breath. Law codes, scriptures, poems, treaties, diaries, equations, novels: civilization became capable of arguing with its dead. A book is a voice that learned how to wait.

But spoken language remains closer to the pulse. Accent carries geography. Idiom carries class. Silence carries danger. The things a family refuses to name can shape memory as powerfully as the stories it repeats.

That is why controlling language is controlling memory. Empires rename cities. Regimes ban words. Colonizers punish native speech. Bureaucracies soften violence with abstractions. “Collateral damage” tries to erase the body. “Final solution” tried to hide murder inside administrative fog. Every struggle over words is a struggle over what reality is allowed to remember.

Still, language leaks. The forbidden word returns in song. The old name survives in the mouth of a grandmother. The joke slips past the censor. The proverb outlives the empire.

So language is not merely a tool for communication. It is the living archive of human attention.

It stores our dead, but not as dead things. It keeps them active in us. Every sentence is a séance: the grammar of ancestors, the metaphors of strangers, the borrowed words of enemies, the baby-talk of vanished households, the technical precision of forgotten laborers, the sacred names of things people once feared too much to say plainly.

To speak is to remember with other people’s mouths.

To listen is to inherit.

To create new language is to decide what the future will be able to feel.

What's something an AI told you that genuinely changed the way you see your life?

I'll start.

One day I told an ChatGPT: "I feel like I wasted my twenties. I don't have the same energy I used to."

It replied: "Your energy hasn't disappeared. it has become wisdom."

That sentence stayed with me.

LLMs are an energy hungry, land hungry, money furnace that pollutes local communities and raises the cost of living of the residents, while offering not much of substance.

The U.S. government should not be wasting taxpayer money on this.

If OpenAI cannot offer a product good enough to produce a profit, it should be left to fail, them maybe we can stop sacrificing the poor and the planet for A.I. slop.

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They want massive regulation to gut open source, under the auspices of 'safety'. When the only way to guarantee safety is open source availability.

Has the chat voice changed? I was using it tonight and it sounded really timid and hesitant and I swear it was stuttering and pausing between words and sounded kind of drunk. It was very moody too! Usually it’s the condescending valley girl voice but today it was like it was on Xanax or something.

The "you" (when you address GPT) in this message ain't the same "you" of the previous message. So how does GPT stay consistent throughout the entire thread? On the other hand, has it occurred to you that it just appears consistent when it's really not?

Got curious about this at a hackathon a few weeks ago and went down a rabbit hole.

Turns out a single AI prompt uses somewhere between 0.3 and 3 Wh of energy. Complex reasoning prompts can hit 33 Wh. For context, AI data centers are projected to produce around 80 million tons of CO₂ this year alone.

The other thing we noticed is that most prompts are way longer than they need to be. People write 200 words when 40 would get the same result. That's wasted tokens, wasted compute, wasted energy.

We ended up building a small tool that estimates the environmental cost of a prompt and rewrites it shorter. Mostly just to visualize the problem. It ended up winning Most Innovative at NY Tech Week which was cool but now we're genuinely trying to figure out: does anyone here actually think about this stuff? Or is the per-prompt cost so small that it doesn't matter to you?

Here's the demo if anyone wants to mess with it: https://terrawatch-ai.vercel.app/

Did anybody realise chatgpt app and codex has been super slow in the last hour? I think this means they're about to release 5.6