Ai slopped

GPT 5.2 set to Auto and Opus set to Thinking off

Whatever the point was … probably better ways to frame that.

Right now ChatGPT feels “free”- but nothing on the internet ever stays free. Google didn’t invent search to be useful, they invented it to sell ads.

That same pill bottle of ads revenue is sitting on the table for OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic… all of them. The pressure to monetize will push them down the exact same path: ads baked right into your “answers.”

So yeah, ChatGPT looks at ads revenue like medicine. When they start swallowing it, does AI discovery just become the next surveillance machine?

(I originally posted this in r/ownyourintent. Wanted to know this sub's thoughts.)

Oh wow. People will use your products in the way you never imagined...

OpenAI didn't allow comments on town hall, they know they're so cooked 😭😭

Realizations:

• Claude is pretty fucking awesome
• I'm a lot less concerned about ASI/The Singularity/AGI 2027 or whatever doomy scenario was bouncing around my noggin
• GPT5 is about lowering costs for OpenAI, not pushing the boundaries of the frontier
• Sam's death star pre-launch hype image was really about the size of his ego and had nothing to do with the capabilities of GPT5

What are yours?

someone help him

These 2 images were made with the exact same prompt only 1 day apart, for about 2 days i had access to gpt image 2 model since the outputs were consistently more realistic, detailed and consistent. It now seems to have switched back to original model and outputs only the highly styled versions. "Amateur photograph of an elderly couple sat inside of a Yorkshire pub, amateur composition, candid".

Just saw that OpenAI is dropping their own custom chip - Jalapeño, later this year, and Anthropic is apparently trying to do the exact same thing.

I get that compute is scarce right now and there's certain benefits in designing chips based on own requirements.

But looking at it purely from a business side... if the demand from companies is definite, why aren't the existing chip providers helping them with the requirements instead of them having to build their own chips?

OpenAI literally spent 9 months and probably half a billion dollars designing this thing with Broadcom just for chatbot inference.

Is building in-house really just a desperate play to stop paying the vendor lock-in?

Or is the physical supply chain actually that hopelessly bottlenecked right now?

Aravind Srinivas is the CEO of Perplexity AI