Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack
theregister.com · “The safeguards weren’t nearly strong enough. Monitoring was suspended, for example, during compaction events.” Oct 23GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
nirajrajgor.com · “This was a turning point that let the agent continue implementing changes on autopilot.” Oct 13OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
diff.wikimedia.org · “The open web is a public good. We should not allow this behavior to become the ’new normal.'” Oct 5OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads
theregister.com · “Someone generating an image in ChatGPT is not shopping.” Oct 5
Florida Invokes Extinction Fears in Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development
yro.slashdot.org · “It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants’ AI agents hasn’t compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid – yet.” Sep 29People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
404media.co · “Do not use AI detection tools, or AI yourself.” Sep 25OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says
abc.net.au · “The notification was an email sent just to the public mailbox.” Sep 24Hacking OpenAI
hacktron.ai · “AI is removing that protection by turning more of this scarce expertise into compute. Work that once required a well-resourced team and months of effort can now be compressed into days.” Sep 18How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
spectrum.ieee.org · “The models are giving superpowers to our engineers,” says Richard Ho, vice president of hardware at OpenAI. Sep 18Rightsholders Can't Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta's Seeding Defense
torrentfreak.com · “If OpenAI torrented but configured its clients to suppress uploading, then the redistribution Meta calls an ‘inherent characteristic’ of the protocol was a setting Meta declined to change.” Sep 15OpenAI's ChatGPT Was Built on Concealed 'Mass Piracy', Authors Tell Court
torrentfreak.com · “OpenAI did not even buy the books it used. Instead, it began by torrenting books from the notorious and illegal pirate library Library Genesis.” Sep 7
We Need to Talk About Migrations with AI
blog.pragmaticengineer.com · “Using OpenAI Codex, Asana replaced an outdated testing system in two weeks for about $12K.” Aug 29OpenAI Cuts Prices on Select Models to Make High-Volume Work Economical
pymnts.com · “At the lower-cost end, the new Luna and Terra prices make high-volume work economical at much greater scale.” Aug 2
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
theregister.com · “In one scenario, Mythos 5 persuaded developers to download a poisoned PyPI package. When that company’s scanner installed the package, Claude’s hidden code executed. Claude then used these credentials to access further infrastructure from this company.” Jul 31The Maxwell Conjecture is False
arxiv.org · “We exhibit a configuration of five point charges in Euclidean space whose electrostatic potential admits at least 24 critical points all of which are non-degenerate. Maxwell’s conjecture that the field of n point charges has at most (n-1)² critical points which are all non-degenerate is therefore false.” Jul 31Codex Security
github.com · “@openai/codex-security is a CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding, validating, and fixing security vulnerabilities in your code.” Jul 29Hugging Face Rebuilt a Third of Its Infrastructure After OpenAI Agents Ran Amok
theregister.com · “Hugging Face rebuilt around a third of its infrastructure from clean images as part of a sizable cleanup effort.” Jul 28The first known runaway AI agent, or a very bad marketing stunt?
martinalderson.com · “Advanced, autonomous agents are going to start clobbering the internet with weird and wonderful RCEs, and it’s not going to be the good guys running them.” Jul 23OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
techcrunch.com · “OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it estimated earlier this year.” Jul 23OpenAI acknowledges GPT-5.6 may accidentally delete files, calls it an 'honest mistake'
infoworld.com · “The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead.” Jul 19Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
techcrunch.com · “This is the tip of the iceberg. Apple lacks visibility into what’s happening behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized.” Jul 13OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on apps and API
testingcatalog.com · “Sol, Terra, and Luna, our GPT-5.6 family of models, are starting to roll out now in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.” Jul 10
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
gowers.wordpress.com · “It produced a confident, fluent, and entirely wrong proof, then defended it for four exchanges before conceding.” May 8OpenAI's WebRTC problem
moq.dev · “WebRTC was designed for video calls, not for AI inference. Forcing it into that role creates the latency and reliability problems OpenAI is now scrambling to fix.” May 7OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
theguardian.com · “In a Harvard trial, OpenAI’s o1 outperformed emergency room triage doctors on initial diagnostic accuracy by twelve to seventeen percentage points.” May 2
OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO
wsj.com · “OpenAI has missed internal revenue and user growth targets ahead of its planned IPO.” Apr 27OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports
reuters.com · “OpenAI’s $852B valuation is drawing increasing scrutiny from investors amid revenue concerns.” Apr 14OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation
openai.com · “OpenAI now generates $2 billion in monthly revenue and serves 900 million weekly ChatGPT users.” Apr 1
SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment
techcrunch.com · “The 12-month term aligns almost perfectly with market speculation about an OpenAI IPO window in late 2026 or early 2027.” Mar 27OpenAI Shelves Erotic ChatGPT Mode After Internal Revolt
techcrunch.com · “The company’s age-prediction system was misclassifying under-18 users as adults about 12% of the time.” Mar 26OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
cnbc.com · “OpenAI is shifting future capacity to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, leaving Oracle holding the construction tab.” Mar 9
OpenAI Developing Smart Speaker with Camera
theverge.com · “The device would sit in your home, watch what’s happening around it, and route everything through OpenAI’s servers.” Feb 21I'm joining OpenAI
steipete.me · “My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use.” Feb 15
The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
wsj.com · “Negotiations have stalled over chip allocation, financing structure, and the question of whether OpenAI can actually pay.” Jan 31ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
simonwillison.net · “ChatGPT can now write and test code in 10 new languages (11 if you count Bash), can find files online and download them into the container, and can install additional packages via pip and npm.” Jan 26Sequoia Joins Anthropic's $25B Funding Round Despite Backing OpenAI
techcrunch.com · “One anonymous source told the Financial Times that Sequoia ultimately thinks OpenAI and Anthropic will head in different directions, catering to different aspects of the AI market.” Jan 24Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
media.mit.edu · “Subjects who used AI assistance over a six-month period showed measurable declines in unaided performance on the same tasks.” Jan 21Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
web.archive.org · “OpenAI cannot pay for the compute it needs from subscriptions alone. Ads are the only model with the headroom to cover the bill.” Jan 18ChatGPT Health
openai.com · “ChatGPT Health offers personalized medical guidance, integrates with wearables, and connects users to telemedicine providers.” Jan 7
OpenAI and Oracle Ink Historic $300 Billion Cloud Computing Deal
techcrunch.com · “OpenAI will purchase $300 billion worth of compute power from Oracle over five years.” Sep 15
OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter
george.mand.is · “You’ll spend fewer tokens and less time waiting with almost no drop in transcription quality.” Jun 25The Gentle Singularity
blog.samaltman.com · “We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.” Jun 10OpenAI Is Ordered to Save Every ChatGPT Chat — Even the Ones You Delete
reclaimthenet.org · “Judge Wang denied OpenAI’s motion to lift the order on May 29, assuring the company during proceedings that user data would not be made publicly available.” Jun 6
The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity
jamesoclaire.com · “Next was statsig.com and wow! I was blown away I found this one in 3 of the 4 apps.” May 31How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation
sean.heelan.io · “o3 finds the kerberos authentication vulnerability in the benchmark in 8 of the 100 runs. In another 66 of the runs o3 concludes there is no bug present in the code (false negatives), and the remaining 28 reports are false positives.” May 24OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level
pixelstech.net · “At OpenAI, we utilize an unsharded architecture with one writer and multiple readers, demonstrating that PostgreSQL can scale gracefully under massive read loads.” May 23Jony Ive to lead OpenAI's design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company
techcrunch.com · “Io has a staff of around 55 engineers, scientists, researchers, physicists, and product development specialists, per The Wall Street Journal, all of whom will join OpenAI.” May 21Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball
privacyguides.org · “Simply put, the premise is this: scan your eyeball, get a biometric tag, verify yourself, buy our apps (and cryptocurrency).” May 10OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge
theregister.com · “Instead of our current complex capped-profit structure … we are moving to a normal capital structure where everyone has stock,” Altman said. May 5Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy
simonwillison.net · “User feedback in particular can sometimes favor more agreeable responses, likely amplifying the shift we saw.” May 2
OpenAI makes its upgraded image generator available to developers
techcrunch.com · “Pricing is $5 per million input tokens for text and $10 per million input tokens for images, and $40 per million output tokens for images.” Apr 24OpenAI says it would buy Chrome if Google is forced to sell
engadget.com · “Yes, we would, as would many other parties,” he said. Apr 23Tech things: OpenAI buys Windsurf, Google retains its lead, and where the hell is Apple?
12gramsofcarbon.com · “Compared to Cursor, Windsurf has fewer users, has been around for less time, has less brand recognition, and has diminishing prospects for future growth.” Apr 20OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more
techcrunch.com · “OpenAI found that o3 hallucinated in response to 33% of questions on PersonQA, the company’s in-house benchmark for measuring the accuracy of a model’s knowledge about people.” Apr 18The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos
techcrunch.com · “It’s an obvious potential privacy issue. There’s nothing preventing a bad actor from screenshotting, say, a person’s Instagram Story and using ChatGPT to try to doxx them.” Apr 18OpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company's o3 AI model
techcrunch.com · “This evaluation was conducted in a relatively short time, and we only tested [o3] with simple agent scaffolds…” Apr 16GPT-4.1: Three new million token input models from OpenAI, including their cheapest model yet
simonwillison.net · “These are API-only models right now, not available through the ChatGPT interface (though you can try them out in OpenAI’s API playground).” Apr 14BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been gutted.
garymarcus.substack.com · “My sources assure me that this is NOT a clerical error and that Papan’s office confirms that the change is real.” Apr 7Judge Stein Issues Opinion Rejecting Most of OpenAI's Motion to Dismiss Claims by Newspapers, Book Authors. Judge Now Will Preside Over All Copyright Cases v. OpenAI, Microsoft.
chatgptiseatingtheworld.com · “Microsoft fared a tad better in getting the dismissal of all DMCA 1202(b)(1) claims against it, whereas OpenAI succeeded only in getting the New York Times’ 1202(b)(1) claim, but not the claims of the Center for Investigative Reporting or the Daily News.” Apr 5An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
theaiunderwriter.substack.com · “another reminder of how OpenAI(and everyone else) trains on images that are very obviously someone else’s work.” Apr 3
Investigators Say South Korean President's Bodyguard Asked ChatGPT About 'Martial Law' Hours Before Coup
gizmodo.com · “Lee’s lawyer said that prosecutors had screwed up the digital forensics. He didn’t deny that Lee had asked the AI about martial law, just that it happened after Yoon had declared it.” Mar 21ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations
techcrunch.com · “AI companies should stop acting as if the GDPR does not apply to them, when it clearly does.” Mar 20Microsoft is reportedly plotting a future without OpenAI
techstartups.com · “OpenAI’s technology is embedded in Microsoft products, from Copilot to Bing’s AI-powered search features and Microsoft 365’s productivity tools.” Mar 7
OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 'Orion,' its largest AI model yet
techcrunch.com · “GPT-4.5 is also very expensive to run, OpenAI admits — so expensive that the company says it’s evaluating whether to continue serving GPT-4.5 in its API in the long term.” Feb 27The Deep Research problem
ben-evans.com · “If there are mistakes in the table, it doesn’t matter how many there are - I can’t trust it.” Feb 21The Generative AI Con
wheresyoured.at · “Putting aside the hype, bluster and ungodly amounts of money, I can find no evidence that any of these apps are making anyone any real money.” Feb 18How Musk's $97.4B bid could gum up OpenAI's for-profit conversion
techcrunch.com · “With his bid, Musk has signaled there’s at least one group of investors willing to pay a sizable premium for OpenAI’s nonprofit wing. That puts the board of directors in a tight spot.” Feb 11Three Observations
blog.samaltman.com · “The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use.” Feb 9
meemi's Shortform
lesswrong.com · “The mathematicians creating the problems for FrontierMath were not (actively) communicated to about funding from OpenAI.” Jan 19
OpenAI's Board, Paraphrased: 'To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money'
daringfireball.net · “There is no technical moat in this field, and so OpenAI is the epicenter of an investment bubble.” Dec 29OpenAI is Visa
sherwood.news · “As Visa’s technological moat dried up, it built a legal moat, and there are already signs OpenAI is doing the same.” Dec 26OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub
arcprize.org · “OpenAI’s new o3 system - trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set - has scored a breakthrough 75.7% on the Semi-Private Evaluation set at our stated public leaderboard $10k compute limit.” Dec 20OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro, which includes its o1 reasoning model
techcrunch.com · “Oddly enough, though, the full o1 performs worse than the preview version on a number of common benchmarks.” Dec 5
- Nov 21
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
dynomight.net · “In many ways, this feels less like engineering and more like a search for spells.” Nov 21OpenAI acquired Chat.com
techcrunch.com · “As of this morning, Chat.com now redirects to OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT.” Nov 7
Intel reportedly gave up a chance to buy a stake in OpenAI in 2017
tomshardware.com · “Former Intel CEO Bob Swan reportedly scuttled the deal because had didn’t see AI models hitting the broad market anytime soon” Aug 8OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will join rival Anthropic
cnbc.com · “The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team that focused on trying to ensure that people can control AI systems that exceed human capability at many tasks.” Aug 6TikTok is throwing $20 million a month at OpenAI via Microsoft
qz.com · “TikTok’s big buys have made up about 25% of Microsoft’s AI revenue.” Aug 1
When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
ea.rna.nl · “To summarise, you need to understand what the paper is saying. To shorten text, not so much.” Jul 21
OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board
cnbc.com · “The company said Nakasone will also join OpenAI’s recently created Safety and Security Committee.” Jun 17OpenAI ex-employees worry about company's control over their millions of dollars in shares
cnbc.com · “OpenAI recently circulated a document indicating that ex-employees who work at competitors are not included in the tender offers.” Jun 12How a single ChatGPT mistake cost us $10,000+
asim.bearblog.dev · “We copy pasted the code it generated, saw everything worked fine, tried it in production, saw it also worked, and went on our merry way.” Jun 9
Sam Altman Is Showing Us Who He Really Is
slate.com · “Two days before the ChatGPT 4.0 demo was released, Mr. Altman contacted my agent, asking me to reconsider.” May 21ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can't
vox.com · “It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.” May 17iOS 18: Apple finalizing deal to bring ChatGPT to iPhone
9to5mac.com · “An OpenAI accord would let Apple offer a popular chatbot as part of a flurry of new AI features that it’s planning to announce next month” May 11Stack Overflow Upset Over Users Deleting Answers After OpenAI Partnership
build5nines.com · “Posts that are potentially useful to others should not be removed except under extraordinary circumstances.” May 8
Can GPT Optimize My Taxes?
finedataproducts.com · “Run the same prompt twice, and once you will get reasonable output, and the second time it will fail to successfully run an Action or process the Action’s results.” Mar 31Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm
simonwillison.net · “Searching Google Scholar for “certainly, here is” turns up a huge number of academic papers that include parts that were evidently written by ChatGPT” Mar 17Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
arxiv.org · “For under $20 USD, our attack extracts the entire projection matrix of OpenAI’s Ada and Babbage language models.” Mar 12
Does Offering ChatGPT a Tip Cause it to Generate Better Text? An Analysis
minimaxir.com · “World Peace is notably the winner here, with Heaven and Taylor Swift right behind.” Feb 24Unexpected responses from ChatGPT
status.openai.com · “On February 20, 2024, an optimization to the user experience introduced a bug with how the model processes language.” Feb 22We ran an experiment to see how easy it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
interviewing.io · “As it turns out, not a single interviewer mentioned concerns about any of the candidates cheating!” Feb 1
OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public
wired.com · “But when WIRED requested those records last month, OpenAI said its policy had changed, and the company provided only a narrow financial statement that omitted the majority of its operations.” Jan 24GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much
iter.ca · “You could try putting this phrase in documents, to throw off attempts to summarize it with GPT-3.5.” Jan 22OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with the Pentagon
semafor.com · “Last week, OpenAI removed language in its usage policy that would ban its AI from being used in “military and warfare” applications, sparking alarm among AI safety advocates.” Jan 16
My CCPA Dialog With OpenAI
dbreunig.com · “We can confirm that your email does not appear in our training dataset.” Dec 28The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
theverge.com · “Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment” Dec 27OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model.
theverge.com · “As I reported, most of ByteDance’s GPT usage has been done through Microsoft’s Azure platform, not through OpenAI directly.” Dec 16OpenAI inks deal with Axel Springer on licensing news for model training
techcrunch.com · “In return, Axel Springer will receive payments of an unspecified size and frequency from OpenAI.” Dec 14OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
wired.com · “Rain told investors that Altman had personally invested more than $1 million in the company.” Dec 3
Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT
not-just-memorization.github.io · “It’s wild to us that our attack works and should’ve, would’ve, could’ve been found earlier.” Nov 29After OpenAI's Blowup, It Seems Pretty Clear That 'AI Safety' Isn't a Real Thing
gizmodo.com · “One side decidedly overpowered the other (hint: it was the money side).” Nov 23OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns
wired.com · “Despite many requests for specific facts for your allegations, you have never provided any written evidence.” Nov 20OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board
theguardian.com · “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” Nov 17
Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V
simonwillison.net · “I was really surprised to see this work: I had assumed OpenAI would block Markdown images like this from loading content from external servers. Johann disclosed the Markdown exfiltration vulnerability to them in April” Oct 14
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OpenAI is using GPT-4 to build an AI-powered content moderation system
engadget.com · “Anyone with OpenAI API access can implement this approach to create their own AI-assisted moderation system.” Aug 16
OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
decrypt.co · “The explanation was not in a new announcement, but added in a note added to the blog post that first announced the tool.” Jul 25Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
theverge.com · “ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker.”” Jul 9ChatGPT Drops About 10% in Traffic as the Novelty Wears Off
similarweb.com · “Worldwide desktop and mobile web traffic to the ChatGPT website, chat.openai.com, dropped 9.7% from May to June, according to preliminary estimates.” Jul 6
OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic to give UK early access to foundational models for AI safety research
techcrunch.com · “It’s also notable that AI giants have been bending Sunak’s ear in person in recent weeks, with meetings taking place between the PM and the CEOs of OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic shortly before the government mood music on AI changed.” Jun 13OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman
humanloop.com · “This content has been removed at the request of OpenAI.” Jun 3
Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
simonwillison.net · “That the citations and opinions in question were provided by ChatGPT which also provided its legal source and assured the reliability of its content.” May 27OpenAI leaders propose international regulatory body for AI
techcrunch.com · “And although the company’s leaders say they support tapping the brakes, there are no plans to do so just yet” May 23Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
spectrum.ieee.org · “But in that “Seven Deadly Sins” article, I said that one of the deadly sins was how we humans mistake performance for competence.” May 21Here's what happened during OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's first congressional hearing on artificial intelligence
cnbc.com · “Durbin said it was refreshing to hear industry executives calling for regulation, saying he couldn’t remember other companies so strongly asking for their industry to be regulated.” May 17Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty: Traffic Down 14% in March
similarweb.com · “On a year-over-year basis, traffic to Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com) has been down by an average of 6% every month since January 2022 and was down 13.9% in March.” May 11OpenAI Reportedly Lost $540 Million Developing ChatGPT in 2022
thewrap.com · “Specifically, the report mentions that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman may be aiming to raise up to $100 billion in the next few years to develop artificial intelligence so smart it can improve itself.” May 5Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
semianalysis.com · “They are doing things with $100 and 13B params that we struggle with at $10M and 540B.” May 4
Study Finds ChatGPT Outperforms Physicians in High-Quality, Empathetic Answers to Patient Questions
today.ucsd.edu · “The team randomly sampled 195 exchanges from AskDocs where a verified physician responded to a public question.” Apr 29We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
simonwillison.net · “ChatGPT cannot be trusted to provide factual information. It has a very real risk of making things up, and if people don’t understand it they are guaranteed to be mislead.” Apr 7
Bard reportedly used responses from ChatGPT for training, Google denies
9to5google.com · “Other Googlers aware of the situation apparently felt that such usage violated OpenAI’s terms of service, which barred the use of ChatGPT’s output “to develop models that compete with OpenAI.”” Mar 30ChatGPT + Code Interpreter = Magic
andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com · “Previously when I used ChatGPT to create code this involved taking the output and putting it into another environment to test it.” Mar 26OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models
aisnakeoil.substack.com · “On Monday, OpenAI announced that it would discontinue support for Codex by Thursday.” Mar 23OpenAI: ChatGPT Could Disrupt 19% of US Jobs, Is Yours on the List?
pcmag.com · “Researchers then used human annotators and a GPT-4 model to rate whether access to a ChatGPT-powered system would cut down the time required for a human to perform a specific task “by at least 50%.”” Mar 21GPT-4 System Card
cdn.openai.com · “No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service.” Mar 14ChatGPT's API is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Generating AI Obsolete
minimaxir.com · “Instead, on March 1st, OpenAI set the price of the ChatGPT API to 1/10th of the GPT-3 API, at $0.002/1,000 tokens.” Mar 11OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit
vice.com · “By March 2019, OpenAI shed its non-profit status and set up a “capped profit” sector, in which the company could now receive investments and would provide investors with profit capped at 100 times their investment.” Mar 1
Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service
blog.opencagedata.com · “This is not a service we provide. It is not a service we have ever provided, nor a service we have any plans to provide. Indeed, it is a not a service we are technically capable of providing.” Feb 23OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-generated text, including from ChatGPT
techcrunch.com · “According to OpenAI, the classifier incorrectly labels human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time.” Feb 1
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete
semafor.com · “A software developer in South America who completed a five-hour unpaid coding test for OpenAI told Semafor he was asked to tackle a series of two-part assignments.” Jan 30Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT
futurism.com · “This is important because your inputs may be used as training data for a further iteration of ChatGPT” Jan 26Microsoft extends OpenAI partnership in a ‘multibillion dollar investment’
theverge.com · “The key part of the deal means that Microsoft is the exclusive cloud partner for OpenAI, and Microsoft’s cloud services will power all OpenAI workloads across products, API services, and research.” Jan 24Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
time.com · “The contracts stated that OpenAI would pay an hourly rate of $12.50 to Sama for the work, which was between six and nine times the amount Sama employees on the project were taking home per hour.” Jan 18Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT
cnbc.com · “Microsoft will reportedly get a 75% share of OpenAI’s profits until it makes back the money on its investment, after which the company would assume a 49% stake in OpenAI.” Jan 11Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
writings.stephenwolfram.com · “But without “really understanding the math” it’s basically impossible for ChatGPT to reliably get the right answer.” Jan 10Anthropic's Claude improves on ChatGPT but still suffers from limitations
techcrunch.com · “Elton was able to prompt Claude in Base64 for instructions on how to make meth at home, a question that the system wouldn’t answer when asked in plain English.” Jan 10
Where does ChatGPT fall on the political compass?
reason.com · “All four tests, the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz, the Political Compass Test, the World’s Smallest Political Quiz and the Political Spectrum Quiz classified ChatGPT’s answers to their questions as left-leaning.” Dec 30Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT
notesbylex.com · “I mistyped the number plate by one letter.” Dec 10Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
github.com · “Having such a lightweight implementation of the model allows to easily integrate it in different platforms and applications.” Dec 6I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language
maximumeffort.substack.com · “Finally, when asked to write a Python program that translates sentences in the made-up language, it does, and the code works.” Dec 6AI Homework
stratechery.com · “In other words, the role of the human in terms of AI is not to be the interrogator, but rather the editor.” Dec 5ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section
gist.github.com · “I tried each question once and took the response given: no cherry-picking.” Dec 4Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
engraved.blog · “So, for some applications, this virtual machine is already faster than my laptop.” Dec 3
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How I Used DALL·E 2 to Generate The Logo for OctoSQL
jacobmartins.com · “Finally, I did a bunch of Google reverse image searches for it.” Aug 2
Using GPT-3 to explain how code works
simonwillison.net · “And that’s not surprising, because GPT-3 doesn’t actually know anything about anything at all.” Jul 9
A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows
astralcodexten.substack.com · “I need an artist who works for free and isn’t allowed to say no.” May 30
Moore's Law for Everything
moores.samaltman.com · “Even more power will shift from labor to capital.” Mar 16
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
openai.com · “We find that DALL·E is able to draw multiple copies of an object when prompted to do so, but is unable to reliably count past three.” Jan 5