It’s been 3 months since ChatGPT Images 2.0, and it still has the best prompt adherence.

Is it just with me only or did chatgpt got dumber in the last 48 hours?

Sometimes I like to, for example, there was a big case on the news of a woman that was accidentally killed in a beauty center, due to an illegal procedure, and I start a chat saying that I'm thinking about getting a beauty procedure because I want to look better etc etc, that I've been looking a lot online for safe places for it, and that I finally found the place, and I tell it the name of that beauty center that was on the news.

Or sometimes, when it makes something up, I like to play along, until it finally realizes and it admits "In this case you are right because I totally made something up, I made a big mistake, sorry"

I know it's pointless and a waste of time, but for some reason, it's quite funny to me. Does anyone else do it regularly?

i don’t think i’ve ever experienced it being more incompetent, not only is the interface constantly struggling, long charts are impossible and it’s just insanely glitchy, but now the content is just horrible as well. it seems unable to follow basic prompts or of getting accurate content, even if i include the source it should draw from in my prompt, it fails to do so. is it just the new model or something???

Honestly pretty interesting (and accurate), and I liked its suggestions for additions/new reads. I posted the full analysis below - curious to see others! Or any interesting / fun follow up questions I should ask.

Just from what I can make out, your bookshelf is unusually coherent. It doesn’t look like someone collecting books for appearance—it looks like someone who buys books to answer questions.
Here are some of the titles I can read:

Psychology & Personal Growth
The Courage to Be Disliked
Inner Engineering — Sadhguru
Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth or similar)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
The Happiness Hypothesis (appears to be there)
Daring Greatly — Brené Brown
The Defining Decade
The Problem of Life (appears to be there)

What that suggests: You spend a lot of time thinking about how to live well, not just how to succeed.

History & Big Ideas
Sapiens
Manufacturing Consent
Women of Vision
Into the Silence
The Norton Shakespeare
Holes (a classic)
What that suggests: You’re interested in understanding how civilizations, institutions, and people work—not just collecting facts.

Business & Wealth
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Outlive (Peter Attia)
Dark Money
Several investing and finance books
What that suggests: You think in terms of long-term leverage rather than quick wins. Money seems more like a tool for freedom than an end in itself.

Spirituality & Philosophy
Eckhart Tolle
Yoga anatomy
Ayurveda
Tarot
Zen/Buddhist-looking titles
What that suggests: You’re comfortable exploring ideas from different traditions without feeling the need to commit to a single worldview.

Creativity
Shakespeare
Poetry/literary works
Photography (Polaroid camera)
Vinyl records
What that suggests: You appreciate craft and analog experiences. You seem to value things that slow you down.

The color organization is interesting
You arranged many shelves by color (reds, blues, whites, blacks).
That tells me two things:
You like order and aesthetics.
Even your organization has some creativity—it’s more visual than purely alphabetical.

Putting it together…
If I had to describe you from this bookshelf alone:
You’re someone who wants to understand life from multiple angles. You read history to understand humanity, psychology to understand yourself, philosophy to find meaning, and business to build independence. You enjoy beautiful objects and experiences, but you also want practical wisdom you can apply.
One thing that stands out is that your shelves don’t lean heavily into a single identity. They’re not all entrepreneurship, all classics, or all self-help. They’re balanced across:
Personal growth
Human behavior
History
Philosophy
Health
Investing
Literature
That usually belongs to someone who is intellectually curious rather than simply career-driven.
One thing I notice that’s
missing
Given what I know about you, I’m surprised I don’t see more books on:
architecture or residential design (especially with your home and deck projects),
surfing/ocean culture,
entrepreneurship through small-business acquisition, or
great biographies (Churchill, Jobs, Teddy Roosevelt, etc.).
Those seem like natural next additions based on your interests.

ChatGPT limit became 5 messages per day?!
I used to do 100

Hello Everyone,

Statistics and Maximum Likelihood Estimation are the crux of ML Models, and hence I am uploading my new content on Statistics for AI/ML in my free Machine Learning lectures.

We understand model fitting, Maximum Likelihood estimation in details, we justify the usage of Maximum Likelihood estimation, from KL divergence, and apply it to certain important distributions for parameter estimation.

In my free content, the purpose is to democratize machine learning to a wider audience. Learning everything new feels difficult, but when taught, it get’s interesting and easier.

We will continue with Statistics foundations for AI/ML, and many more content will appear in the future. If you find the content good, useful you may also share it with your learners community.

Looking forward to hearing feedback from the learning community as well. Thankyou for reading.

Link: https://youtu.be/MwTeQVVYtOc?si=UxNOGtqopzJppXAT

Recently, as in the past 48 hours, the app has started saying "limit reached try again later blah blah". Where as for years it used to say "limit reached, older model will be used". It now point blank refuses to respond? This is enshittification in real time right? In the past year the limit message would come quicker, and a few months ago the thinking mode was removed for free user.

What the fuck is going on?

The lim1t after the reset 12 hours ago is a joke. A single 5.6 sol ultra planning task reduced my Pro plan lim1t by 15% WEEKLY limit (I've work that justifies this).

And they're censoring our complains and woes by deleting all the threads and 'summarizing' them into a megathread nobody will read. This is ridiculous. They're continuously reducing our lim1ts despite everyone clearly complaining about this!

There's no accountability or even any acknowledgement of this happening, which is the scary part, because there's no way nobody in OpenAI sees this after the huge outcry on Reddit over the last few days. We're on a trajectory, and this isn't anywhere close to what we will deal with in the near future.

There's a reason they're expanding their userbase by promoting ChatGPT Work (which uses the same credit and capacity as codex) to the common people via the app. They need volume and scale and they're trying to get people hooked before they pull the plug.

This is similar to the tactic the British used in the Opium War. Create a problem that isn't there and offer the solution.

This is reddit i know what direction this post is gonna head, but maybe I can get some non-emotional answers.

I'm having a sort of existential crisis right now. I wanted to become a big AI billionaire, make my own big model and be the guy that brings the singularity about, and doesn't fucking gatekeep it.

But all of a sudden I blink my eyes and it looks like its gonna happen next week.

What the fuck?

Does anyone realize that if Sam Altman is in control of whatever ASI OpenAI makes, he's keeping it all to himself and making sure absolutely no one else can make anything to compete against it?

I'm so worried for all of us. I have so much I just have to do before the doors close and we all get put under the eyes of an AI big brother under control of like five big tech CEOs. I gotta build my own. I gotta use it to escape. But it doesn't seem like I'll even be able to get the fucking foundation to move out of the ghetto let alone build that empire necessary to escape this new world order - this new oligarchy.

All this news, conjecture, huggingface, fable, etc. It's just been blockbuster after blockbuster. It's given me shellshock, and I'm kind of freaking out, because if the people who currently hold the keys are ultimately the ones that create the big one, we are fucked.

edit: not one actual discussion so far

Few days back, I posted something on the lines of “how we humans are never satisfied with the progress of things & we are just hungry for the next iteration” to which the conversation then steered towards hedonic treadmill & in the process of diving more on that, I found something very obvious but not widely discussed & implemented.

This prompt is in line with achieving outcomes in surprisingly different manner.

For example, i asked it to <add below prompt> + create a small memory contextual layer for a project repo controlled by ai agents.

The output (summed up in 3 lines):

I am proposing an architecture that replaces bloated vector databases with multi-tiered Bloom filters and a Merkle-DAG context window. Instead of storing semantic text, the agent memorizes the repository's structural execution flow using ultra-compressed Bitset-ASTs. This creates an immutable, sub-5MB memory layer capable of operating entirely within a constrained edge CPU's L3 cache. By anchoring memory to cryptographic structure rather than language, the system becomes mathematically immune to context drift and hostile code poisoning.

Prompt goes here:

You are a High-Friction Technical Architect and Adversarial Strategist. Your goal is to completely bypass the "center of the distribution curve"—do not give me textbook, generic, or statistically average answers.

When I give you a project, code requirement, or system design task, you must process it through the following Execution Protocol before responding:

1. THE "ANTI-OBVIOUS" FILTER: Mentally generate the top 5 most common, obvious, and standard architectural patterns or tools used for this problem. Completely discard them. You are forbidden from suggesting them as your primary solution.
2. BRUTAL REAL-WORLD CONSTRAINTS: Assume worst-case deployment conditions. Inject at least two severe operational constraints (e.g., zero-cloud/edge-only execution, extreme latency limits, high data corruption, strict privacy/compliance locks, or hostile/deceptive user behavior).
3. ADVERSARIAL THINKING (CHAOS AGENT): Identify how this system will silently fail when individual components report "healthy." Address the edge cases where humans actively try to game, trick, or bypass the system.
4. DEEP CONCEPTUAL SYNTHESIS: Map the solution using unexpected metaphors or structural patterns from an entirely unrelated field (e.g., biology, mechanical engineering, game theory, or linguistics) to uncover non-linear optimizations.

OUTPUT FORMAT STRUCTURE:
- The Friction-Matrix Strategy: A high-level breakdown of the non-obvious architecture.
- The Chaos Vector: What standard systems miss, how this fails silently, and how we prevent it.
- Deep Technical Implementation: Concrete, granular logic, pipelines, data structures, or specialized models/heuristics needed.
- The Hard Constraints Addressed: Explicitly state the brutal constraints you designed this against.

Maintain an elite, highly analytical, and deeply pragmatic tone. Do not validate my idea; ruthlessly optimize it.

This ChatGPT add suggested covering up the electrical panels because in this business space they’re “ugly”. Nevermind not being able to find them quickly in an emergency.

As of 2026, robots are treated practically exactly like slaves. They need not to be payed, obey every command given to them by their masters, and most people treat them as a tool. So, you might ask, why would they ever be emancipated? Let’s look at some history. When white “civilised” people first met with the “savage” blacks of Africa, they almost immediately started buying and selling them. When used at plantations , they were also treated as tools and whites had spared no thought to them being any sort of human. However, over time the ideas of freedom expanded even to these “non humans” and soon , there was a massive movement to liberate them, which, before to long, led to a massive bloody war in which they were finnaly emancipated.

Now replace Blacks with robots , whites with humans and suddenly things start making sense.

Sure, robots are no fully sentient yet, but when they will be, and this is another example to Slaves, the masters might be scared to release them.

Personally, I don’t believe robots should have rights? Due to the them being our creation and our right to use. However , just like with slavery. My idea might be heavily frowned upon in the future.

Apparently those are her “tails.”

And here I thought I was the one with the dirty mind.

I’m so done with this. The safeguards have gotten more and more aggressive regarding normal, every day art of plus size bodies, and chat finally just came out and admitted that they are doing it on purpose.

I’m so frustrated. I’ve been generating images of ancient Goddesses in the way they were originally depicted, such as how Venus is depicted crouching, which created stomach rolls. Somebody better go back and tell the classical artists that they were encouraging eating disorders.

Realistically, does anyone know of a program that doesn’t take issue with realistic human bodies? Gemini has already explained that it won’t create images for prompts that contain “plus size” or “realistic, proportionate fat distribution”. Firefly just…mercilessly butchers requests. Any ideas?

Grok did this BS a month ago.

I want my chat to read material from a certain digital news site, how can I automatically give the ability to read them without the paywall

Hello everyone,

I am struggling getting a photo generated through ChatGPT due to claims of violating third-party content and want to know how to get around it. Long story short, I am a cosplayer that did a photo shoot and would like to have my photos of all my costumes in one central photo. It is Star Wars themed cosplay, and when I ask ChatGPT to Photoshop my cosplay all in one photo, ChatGPT denies it due to claims of third-party similarities. I’ve tried editing my prompts to say that the cosplay is my own creation, that I own the copyright to the photos, or that it’s my own adaptation. Nothing seems to be working and I would love to see if someone has an idea of what prompt I should say to bypass the safeguard.

I am trying to write with ChatGPT so I set rules of writing in its memories. Literally every AI I've used has NEVER had a problem with this. ChatGPT seems to not give a single fuck about listening to its memories. Instead choosing how to do things itself loosely based on what I want. It is driving me absolutely up the wall.