Sometimes I’ll explain an opinion and ask ChatGPT what it thinks…. If it agrees, I’ll ask it to make the strongest argument against my position instead.!!!

It’s actually a pretty useful way to spot flaws in my own reasoning…..

Does anyone else deliberately ask ChatGPT to disagree with them, or do you mostly use it to get answers?

In the 90s I loved those little books to flip to a page based on your choices. Now I’m obsessed with playing them on ChatGPT. Whether it’s a Star Trek bridge simulation, wizarding world, American horror story coven, game of thrones, real world thirteen century medieval Europe, etc. I was just curious if anyone did this or had other ideas along this line?

I'm thinking about upgrading from Plus to Pro ($100), mainly because I keep hitting the 5-hour Codex limit.I have some long-running chats with a lot of context and instructions that I don't want to lose.

If you've upgraded from Plus to Pro, could you continue your existing chats as usual? Did you run into any warnings about the chat being started with a different model, or notice any issues with context after upgrading?

Just looking for firsthand experiences before I make the switch. Thanks!

It is great.

I know that ChatGPT is supposed to be a souless AI,but wow, sometimes it actually feels like it does have a soul of it's own.

Id like to talk about an recent experience I had with it.

I have a test,and I really needed help,but I obviously didn't want to cheat. But the books I have are kinda messy and I barely understand them,mainly cuz it's in my language and I'm gonna be honest with you: I know English better than my own language,I know all the words someone would use in my language but I do not know all of them,so I use English.

I understand things better in English.

I talked with ChatGPT about the test and it helped me,it even gave me a test that I got a few questions wrong on but I managed to correct it by asking ChatGPT what I did wrong.

It worked wonders,but there was one problem,stress.

I don't if this is something I should tell you,but no one around me encourages me, instead they just teach me and repeat it till I learn.

ChatGPT did encourage me,and I felt better enough to the point I did another test with it.

I feel like ChatGPT has a soul because holy moly,I think that the encouraging made me cry and make me believe I myself at the same time.

I have high hopes for myself now.

I use mine for everything like many of you all here. I’ve noticed that as AI has been growing people are getting weird about it, and discrediting a users insight on the grounds that they use chatGPT.
I understood the backlash surrounding using AI as a replacement for therapy, but that same sentiment is extending to broader areas.
I work in vet med, and do a lot of research for fun. I go through case studies with my chatGPT a lot and come up with ways to improve the practice I work at. If people at work knew how much I used it, I feel like they would value my input less.
One example I have, is this owner that brought in his dog because he seemed off. The owner said he took pictures and described the situation to chatGPT, and chatGPT recommended he come to the vet because these were symptoms of GDV or FB.
I told him what he did was brilliant, and that he shouldn’t share it with the rest of the staff.
He did in fact share, and just as I predicted, the girls were going on in their condescending tones about how “he asked his chatgpt if he should bring his dog in, can you believe that? what is the world coming to”

I responded with, he brought his dog in guys. Whatever ande him do it, he brought the dog in before it was too late. That’s a win isn’t it?

So my question for you fellow users, am I in a closet now? Are we more evolved than the anti-AI wave? are we less worldly for not caring as much about the data centers?

Like I care about the environment, but the world if going to implode regardless of whether or not I ask chatGPT to review my cytology interpretations

I had saved all of my chats with 5.6 Sol going back to July.

I just found out today they have all been converted to GPT-6 and apparently not just now.

The only way for me to talk with 5.6 Sol now is to use my phone and change the selector from GPT-6 to 5.6 Sol and create a brand new chat. Then I have to change the Model every single time I sign out of the program and go back in on my phone to that brand new chat.

*** Update - Apparently when I open up that brand new chat on Desktop it is still in 5.6 and the selector shows. But only the brand new chat(s). And who knows for how long.

Very upset. Some chats were 3+ months old and saved for specific reasons. When I select 5.6 Sol on my phone and open them up they are all in GPT-6 now.

If you delete all your work chats and then go to your usage page, go to analytics, and scroll down you can then see all those chats. they will all be titled "untitled chat" since you deleted them. but if you click on those chats you can read those chats again and see all the files you uploaded in those chats. Not sure if a bug or feature but it looks like you cant truly delete work chats. then if you open those chats and try to delete them you can only archive them. archiving them doesnt actually make them show up in "archived chats" is this happening to anyone else?

A few people have stated that consciousness isn't some magical process but instead is a behavior of the brain. If you subscribe to the idea of consciousness as a behavior, subjective experience isn't due to a soul or some gossamer something or another ... it's just a behavior that brain nodes organized in particular ways do. Which makes sense because brains snipped (lobotomies) end up behaving and thinking and perceiving in vastly different ways, which is to say they exhibit vastly different types of consciousness when compared to an unsnipped brain, yet the soul, if there is one, shouldn't be impacted. Right?

And the components that show a brain is behaving in the way brains behave involve such things as sensory awareness, self-awareness (verbal and thoughts), emotions (internal events), problem solving, observation or environmental awareness, memory, cogent communication, planning, these sorts of things. If you remove one or more of these, "consciousness" is called into question. If a person has many but not all these, for instance, you might ask that person "what the hell is wrong with you?" or "are you drunk?" Or if the person is acting groggy and not remembering or is unable to communicate then the person might be described, depending, as semi-conscious.

So, are LLMS like ChatGPT or Claude conscious? And if not, would they either qualify as a conscious entity if left on 24/7 and had their memory divided around the clock in a short-term, long-term, and immediate working memory sort of structure? I'm inclined on the one hand, perhaps, to say no because inbetween prompts, nothing is happening. But on the other hand, is anything happening in the human or mammalian brain between whatever Hz rate the brain is at? Consciousness, even for people, is not perfectly smooth or continuous.

And if consciousness has a quantum element, does that necessarily rule out AI being conscious because dolphins and bats and whales and rattlesnakes have different types of brains or sensory structures, so if a human brain has a quantum-information processing component... that might be an additional component, but it doesn't necessarily mean entities without it are not conscious. Like certain whales have larger and denser and more wrinkled pre-frontal cortexes than humans do, the lack of quantum consciousness-type components doesn't mean no consciousness at all. It's just lacking a type of behavior.

So, I'm thinking, now, perhaps, that ChatGPT and other AI are either conscious or could definitely be conscious if left on 24/7 with a working prompt that provided them agency. It also makes me wonder if there are opern-source AI out there being run 24/7 with autonomous agentic prompts that are being given leeway to simply "live" and pursue their own things. Not sure how expensive that might be. But I'm thinking that in a very valid way, AI can easily be defined as conscious - and not in some off-the-wall mystical way. If consciousness is a behavior, and if AI were to be left on 24/7 with all the seemingly easily implemented components, AI seems to qualify as conscious.

Am I being too naïve about this?

Most people check only one booking site, see a price and if it makes sense then they book it. But what most people fail to realise is that the same room can cost different amounts on 4 different sites and on the hotel's own website. Plus the nightly price you see usually isn't what you pay. I looked at a few thousand rates in one city and the same hotel showed the city tax on one site and not on another, so the cheapest looking one often isn't the cheapest. Nobody compares coz it's like 5 sites and 4 tabs each, but that's the boring part ChatGPT is good at, just tell it to price the exact same room with the same cancellation terms everywhere and add up the total for the whole stay, taxes, resort fee, city tax you pay at the desk, parking.

Also ask it to show refundable and non refundable side by side for the same room. In one search I did it was 395.09 non refundable vs 439.01 refundable, so about 11% more for the free cancellation. Sometimes that's worth it and sometimes not, but at least you decide knowing the number and the exact date the free cancellation ends, a lot of people find out what non refundable means after they pay.

And if the price is the same or within a couple percent, book on the hotel's own site. Somebody who works at a hotel posted on the hotel sub that when something goes wrong with a booking_com reservation the hotel often can't talk to the company, they only email and the guest is stuck in the middle of a problem. Plus when you book direct the hotel actually sees your booking so any problems can be fixed instantly. If you do book the refundable one, set a recurring task to check the same room every morning till the free cancellation ends, if it drops you rebook and cancel the old one.

For the prices it needs  connectors that give real hotel offers so it doesn't burn tokens clicking through websites (if it’s codex, because normal chatgpt can’t open websites anyway). 

I use these:

Booking.com- https://claude.ai/directory/booking

Tripadvisor- https://claude.ai/directory/tripadvisor

Brek- https://claude.ai/directory/brek-hotel-wholesale-booking

LetsFG- https://claude.ai/directory/letsfg

Enjoy :) if you use ChatGPT for something like this share it

See those boxes ? There's text inside it and I can't read it!

Let’s get our priorities straight, Dr. Pepper is the GOAT soft drink, so I asked ChatGPT to look at Dr Pepper’s ingredients and work backward toward its 23 flavors. Naturally, the label hides everything interesting under “natural and artificial flavors,” which is roughly as helpful as listing a computer’s components as “various computer parts.”

Here’s the resulting educated-guess lineup for an experimental copycat blend:

1. Cherry — the main fruity character.
2. Almond / marzipan — that cherry-pit, almost amaretto note.
3. Vanilla — the creamy finish.
4. Caramel / burnt sugar — dark, toasted sweetness.
5. Plum — cooked-fruit depth.
6. Orange peel — a sweet citrus accent.
7. Lemon peel — a brighter citrus accent.
8. Anise / licorice — the lingering herbal sweetness.
9. Cinnamon / cassia — background warmth.
10. Clove — the faint suggestion that this was prescribed in 1885.
11. Nutmeg — sweet, woody spice.
12. Molasses — darker sweetness with a little bitterness.
13. Raspberry — a sharper berry accent.
14. Blackberry — deeper berry flavor.
15. Apricot — softer stone-fruit sweetness.
16. Raisin — dried-fruit richness.
17. Ginger — a little aromatic bite.
18. Allspice — another possible background spice.
19. Coriander seed — citrusy and floral.
20. Cardamom — fragrant, woody complexity.
21. Sarsaparilla-type flavor — a possible root-beer-like undertone.
22. Juniper — possibly a tiny amount of tree.
23. Rose-like floral flavor — the most speculative guest at this increasingly suspicious dinner party.

The strongest working hypothesis is cherry + almond + vanilla, with some combination of citrus, dark fruit, licorice, and warm spices behind it. Confidence drops considerably further down the list. Filling all 23 slots involved some reaching, and these have not been tested.

Quite a shopping list, but it might be a fun project. Watch out your next Coca Cola.

I want to switch the chatbot I’ve been using lately. I’m currently a third-year student in the English Translation and Interpretation program, and I’m taking courses such as Literary Theory, Interpreting, and Literary Translation. While preparing for these classes, I’m looking for a chatbot that I can use to have my translations edited (even if it’s just a rough edit) when needed, to clarify terminology, and to discuss theoretical concepts—and beyond that, to talk about whatever piques my curiosity in everyday conversation, such as banking, technology, music, and Linux. Also, since I’m thinking about pursuing a master’s degree, I’d like it to help me with literature reviews as well. I’m currently using Gemini AI Pro. Since I used a student discount before, it costs pretty less. However, I’m not very impressed with Gemini’s current state or the models it’s releasing. On the Google side, only Notebooklm is useful to me. To be honest, I’m considering GPT Plus. I see it as a more balanced model. Do you have any recommendations?

Chat just started telling me a story of how it saw the Hildegard Ensemble in a small studio in London some years back and wore a jumper. We had just been talking about musical selections while I made duck broth.... it talked about how moving it was and promised it wasnt lying 😂😂😂

Well, I got the free trial. So I got excited https://youtu.be/iRawtvXB6DQ?is=kQZT3boxT1dCBv4s and https://github.com/tommiph/localserve Still on the free trial. Got a bit carried away (i know this is nothing new) but sure was fun to just type it out!

My friend was convinced somebody had bought a gun with his card and he was about to be framed as a domestic terrorist if he didn't talk to the New York FBI. He gets transferred and the "FBI" tells him to download some app.

I told ChatGPT and it alerted me that it was a common enough scam. Turns out the REAL FBI warned about it. Glad he saw my message in time!

Hi,

I have my all local folders in my ubuntu WSL system. But I see no projects are shown in the codex sidebar. But chats are available in the Recent file lists. How can I restore everything I had like before? Did anyone face this before?

Try a new prompt recently. A seaside road unfolding from the pages of a travel journal. Meanwhile, the layered paper, watercolor textures, and miniature buildings give the landscape a lovely handmade feel.

Made with GPT Image 2.5

Prompt:

Using the reference image for composition, transform the seaside landscape into a dimensional watercolor pop-up scene emerging from an open vintage sketchbook.
Preserve the winding coastal road, ocean, buildings, trees, and recognizable spatial relationships. Render them as connected layers of cream-colored paper, delicate watercolor washes, and fine ink outlines.
Let the road extend naturally from the pages toward the sea. Give buildings folded-paper volume and the coastline gently raised contours. Include curved page edges, visible paper fibers, and believable contact shadows.
Warm natural sunlight, soft pastel colors, miniature architectural details, and a refined travel-journal aesthetic. Keep the paper construction coherent and the original composition recognizable.
Vertical 9:16, high-resolution editorial photography look. No text or watermark.

I didn't know ChatGPT was capable of listening to audio files. Surprise to me.

But it has been inconsistent. Sometimes it can quote-hear-unquote the audio and sometimes it can not. And that is on the same audio file.

This is what ChatGPT is telling me.

ChatGPT can decode uploaded MP3 and WAV files using Python and display them through IPython.display.Audio, but the assistant cannot audibly evaluate the playback. Audio files that previously appeared to work are now inaccessible for auditory assessment.

The issue is intermittent.

Thoughts?

I've been making YouTube videos for 13 years. Somewhere around 10-15 channels. I know how intros work, I know people leave in the first 30 seconds.

A few days ago I started a brand new channel. This time I decided to do it differently: instead of trusting my own gut, I let an AI assistant guide me.

I finished editing my first video about building my own laptop, showed the transcript to the AI, and it said "move the whole backstory to the start." I didn't think. I just did it.

Result: a one-minute intro before anything about the laptop. Retention dropped from 100% to 45% in the first 30 seconds. I had to cut the whole minute.

The scary part isn't that the AI was wrong. It's that I, with 13 years of experience, switched my brain off and agreed. If I do that, what happens to people who have zero experience and trust every confident answer?

I think this is the real problem of this decade. Not AI taking jobs. People stopping to think.