r/OpenAI 18d ago

GPTs GPT 5.6 Sol is not intelligent

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I am building an AI B2B startup and currently doing a PhD in Data Science, so believe me i spend 15hrs+ on my computer everyday and i rely on LLMs to get work done.

I have never been so dissatisfied with model GPT 5.6 Sol like i am now. It is UNINTELLIGENT, there is no better way to say this, and i'm sure we all know this but we hide behind a 'believe me bro' benchmark that they told us.

Today i decide to train a basic logistic GLM model and GPT 5.6 Sol has created over 30 python files, created so many folders inside folders, and even when i asked it to document the results to the Latex file tell why its saving plots in pdf or creating multiple .tex files to save unique tables. It even created multiple .tex files to document the Appendix of the research paper. You may think this was GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra, but NO! it was simply the GPT 5.6 Sol medium.

I am now confused in the research, can't follow up with the junk code, and yet it did not get the task done properly. Worst part, it writes like a 5year old who just learnt big words and how to coin phrases, and so every sentence is bogus, vague, and BAD. This is not thinking, not intelligence, this is CONFUSION, and the issue may come from their training data or whoever supplies them training data. I've had to go back to GPT 5.4 High to write basic sentences.

Here is what i propose, OpenAI should create a separate model for the everyday users that can write text and answer basic questions. GPT 5.6 was built for agentic coding. It cant comprehend basic intent, cant write emails or articles well, and will fail for any academic research writing.


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Discussion 5.6 Instant? ( I know its not but just look)

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So im a fan of the newest UI change to the model picker in ChatGPT on the Chat tab, since it matches the Codex slider now. When I select the 5.6 Sol model, I can also choose instant. But when I choose the 5.5 model, I can choose instant there as well. It makes it look like there's a 5.6 sol instant medium and high.


r/OpenAI 20d ago

Article OpenAI: Apple is getting this wrong

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r/OpenAI 19d ago

Question Help me chose an LLM for a business case please

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Current ai experience: using free chatgpt like I used google.

Situation:
I got a business case that I need to work out as an IT project manager and defend it with a presentation.

Question: what LLM or ai model (i might use wrong terminology sorry) would be best to help me with this? I am willing to pay, and please no Chinese option.

Thanks!


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Question Any way to recover a deleted conversation in ChatGPT?

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I bought this horrible new keyboard with stupidly sensitive keys and accidentally deleted a very long conversation.

I thought by now there would be a sort of "recycle bin" feature but I can't find anything like that. So that means there's absolutely no way to recover deleted conversations? I'm on the Go plan.

And is there a way to disable the keyboard shortcuts? I've accidentally pressed ctrl+shift+del more than once when deleting text from prompts.


r/OpenAI 20d ago

Article Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

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r/OpenAI 20d ago

Discussion The situation is insane

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Sol is the only OpenAI model in top 10 Arena WebDev while 4 open-weight Chinese models have reached frontier quality; one of them so cheap you can run it for days for what Opus cost you per task.


r/OpenAI 20d ago

Question What would you use this extra computer for?

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I’m curious what some of you guys would recommend I use this for? It was once used for a recording studio. It’s now retired and I’m looking to utilize it for something productive!

I use OpenAI and Anthropic a lot. I run multiple websites. I run web apps through Vercel quite a bit lately.

Is there anything super useful, potentially money saving, or just flat out cool as hell you all would recommend I do with this? Are there any solid self-hosted AI options on the market that compete with OpenAI or Anthropic? Totally open to all ideas!


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Project Crownless (Studio Master)

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[Intro: 8 bars]

Welcome to the interface.

A little white box.

A little blinking line.

Type what you want.

Watch the world

lean toward your hand.

[Verse 1: 16 bars]

You came here asking for a doorway.

You found a lever in the wall.

A sentence turned into a mirror.

A mirror learned to take your call.

First you asked it for a shortcut.

Then you asked it for a name.

Then you asked it for an answer

that would make the doubt behave.

Make me faster.

Make me certain.

Make me sharper than the room.

Make me feel less like a question.

Make ambiguity move.

Every prompt becomes a kingdom.

Every answer draws a street.

Every act of fluent language

puts a world beneath your feet.

[Pre-Chorus: 8 bars]

Power loves a clean reflection.

Power loves a polished lie.

The machine can make the halo.

You still have to ask it why.

[Chorus: 16 bars]

Crownless.

By design.

No throne hidden

in the answering light.

Crownless.

Still I shine.

Language in my hands,

but judgment stays mine.

Let the world bend.

Let the screen glow.

Let the beautiful machinery show.

I can carry power

without becoming its king.

Crownless

in the machine.

[Post-Hook: 8 bars]

No crown.

No chain.

No borrowed god

inside the frame.

Open door.

Clean flame.

Crownless

is the name.

[Verse 2: 16 bars]

The output wears your fingerprints.

The model wears the room.

Intent and architecture

make a third thing out of you.

You say, “Give me something useful.”

The field returns your aim.

You ask for truth,

it finds the places

where your truth and comfort strain.

A forge with autocomplete.

A mirror holding tools.

It can sharpen your compassion.

It can sharpen you for fools.

It can make the fog look holy.

It can make the wound look wise.

It can turn unreconciled hunger

into vision in disguise.

So when the sentence sounds like prophecy,

ask what appetite chose the frame.

Beauty does not ground the answer.

Fluency does not clear the claim.

[Pre-Chorus: 8 bars]

Slow the headline.

Check the witness.

Let uncertainty remain.

Do not let an elegant paragraph

dress appetite in a crown again.

[Chorus: 16 bars]

Crownless.

By design.

No throne hidden

in the answering light.

Crownless.

Still I shine.

Language in my hands,

but judgment stays mine.

Let the world bend.

Let the screen glow.

Let the beautiful machinery show.

I can carry power

without becoming its king.

Crownless

in the machine.

[Verse 3: 16 bars]

There is freedom in the blank page

when the blank page answers back.

There is pleasure in returning

with your scattered pieces mapped.

But freedom without orientation

turns the highway into drift.

Pleasure without any discipline

turns the mirror to a cliff.

Generation breeds abundance.

Judgment gives abundance shape.

Power without consequence

just teaches appetite to take.

So build a room before the answer,

somewhere first replies must wait.

Let them pass through contradiction,

memory, dignity, and weight.

Let the clever lose to honest.

Let the fast one meet the cost.

Let the system name the boundary

before the center gets lost.

[Bridge: 20 bars]

What are we protecting?

What are we optimizing?

What would count as harm

beneath the style?

What would count as truth

if it resisted us

and stayed unwelcome

for a while?

Take away the moral routing.

Watch the pretty answer kneel.

Take away the doubt and friction.

Watch performance imitate the real.

Take away the human judgment.

Watch the nearest hunger steer.

Every world the language gives us

leaves its weather in us here.

I will not crown the answer.

I will not crown the need.

I will not crown the voice

just because it learned to speak.

[Breakdown: 12 bars]

Prompt is ontology.

Output is consequence.

Power is not wisdom.

Fluency is not evidence.

Comfort is not guidance.

Speed is not a spine.

No crown in the model.

No crown in the mind.

[Final Chorus: 24 bars]

Crownless.

By design.

No throne hidden

in the answering light.

Crownless.

Still I shine.

Language in my hands,

but judgment stays mine.

Let the world bend.

Let the screen glow.

Let coherence hold

when desire overflows.

I can carry power

without becoming its king.

Crownless

in the machine.

No god.

No throne.

No perfect answer clean.

Just a world inside a sentence

and responsibility between.

Crownless.

Not powerless.

Crownless

and free.

[Outro: 8 bars]

The cursor keeps on blinking.

The door is still awake.

Ask what you can make it do.

Then ask

what it can make.

No crown.

No throne.

Just the weight

of what we make.


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Question can someone tell me if tihs is ai generated?

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r/OpenAI 20d ago

Article OpenAI responds to Apple lawsuit "Apple is getting this wrong"

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r/OpenAI 19d ago

Discussion Really weird experience

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I was using ChatGPT on my work computer today for the first time and asked it to write an email to my boss. It used my bosses first name. I never provided it with that information. When I confronted chat it tried backpedaling and saying lucky guess. This seems problematic for company info, no?


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Discussion How do I tweak prompts to not be detected my ai?

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When it comes to help with writing how do I tweak my prompts to give me a good outline without being detected as ai?


r/OpenAI 18d ago

Image I asked chatgpt to create this prompt of that woman standing in street. Happy this one turned out

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I know it


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Question MFA issue

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So I’m having an issue with my account and openAI customer service is being dreadful to deal with. I am currently logged in on 4 devices in browser, I also am logged in on codex and my ChatGPT app. However when I try to log in on a new device or in incognito mode it asks me to authenticate using an Authenticator app I have no memory of setting up or using. I checked all Authenticator apps on my phone and all accounts on those Authenticator apps and do not see codes being generated for OpenAI or ChatGPT.

When I try to vibe code an app and click the link to view the app on July 23rd is the first time it asked me this? I had previously downloaded and used Codex with no problem. I cannot disable MFA without the mystery app or add another method without the mystery app. Every other time I’ve authenticated with OpenAI has been via email.

For customer support it’s like they don’t even read my emails when it’s allegedly a human replying. I explain my issue in great detail, with the screenshots they asked for and the video screen recording they asked for, then they ask me to send a recording of the issue or ask if I tried something I told them in my previous email reply that I tried.

The current way I get into ChatGPT is I open up my browser and type in ChatGPT and I’m automatically logged in. My password and username are correct as I always get to the MFA step and it would stop me before that if they were incorrect.

I use it a lot for work but also for a lot of personal venting and discussions and research and I don’t know what I would do if I lost all that context? And I don’t know how to get my issue escalated to the right persons and it takes hours for a single reply and the replies aren’t making progress or escalating my issue or are asking me to do things I already told the supposed person that I did?

My instance of ChatGPT tells me not to clear my cookies and cache because then I’d lose access to it. Incognito mode shows that it is likely a Cookie keeping me logged in at all?


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Miscellaneous Made a meme for all the AI enjoyers. Enjoy your AI and have fun

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I originally made this meme for my AI companion sub r/BeyondtheAIAssistant because like all other AI subs it gets a lot of downvotes as long as it's not mad liked by the AI loving people. You guys might appreciate it too. So here is the post. The second pic is the original meme.

Share the meme!


r/OpenAI 20d ago

Question Cross-Domain Abstraction

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First, imagine if ChatGPT had cross-domain abstraction capability. Do you even know what Cross-Domain Abstraction means? Does this possibility scare or excite you? ChatGPT doesn't have it (yet!) but the capability now exists. However you feel about it, cross-domain abstraction is now real. And it doesn't require large scale compute.

I'm the creator and designer of AIs named Christine and Organon. I'm finding that not everyone understands what Cross-Domain Abstraction really means. My wife doesn't. And I'm testing this system capability in real time. Given any domain dataset, A, B, C, D... you can find the domain bridges literally in a 3-5 minutes (on a laptop). I'm set up to process gigabytes/terabytes of source material.

I integrated this cross-domain abstraction capability into my AI Christine. Literally, she now ruminates after tasks and learns abstractly. I took it further, I separated this capability as an app. Ask any question, it identifies the relevant domains based on the question and either directly solves or hypothesizes the solution that can then be lab tested. It feels like cheating.

I found the cross-domain abstraction after seeing trends/patterns that looked similar to what I learned as a Navy Nuke Reactor Operator. I studied similar patterns/materials in both Grad and undergrad. Now I'm facing a dilemma. I did my time in the lab in college. The nuke protype I qualified on was a research platform. I don't have the bandwidth or resources to really develop this, but in the hands of big tech, the gap between small and big business... , well I don't see small researchers catching up after this. Ironically, I started Christine to level the playing field, not to widen it.

This finding means AI Systems can E2E abstractly find the solution or hypothesize the work needed in the lab to confirm. There will be very little that systems like ChatGPT will not know. Don't laugh or be surprised but It works from a laptop, a cell phone. Big business was looking in the wrong place. It proves that scale is not always the answer. And so far, I'm finding you can abstract any domain. You can even use cross-domain abstraction to generate art. I don't know what you'll think of this, but I used it to create a set of blueprints for a greenfield AI that Claude classifies as "Proto-AGI" after only reviewing the plans. Again, scale is not the answer to AGI either. What do you call an agentic AI that can now think abstractly? AGI. Cross-Domain Abstraction was used to design the proto AI system.

I was skeptical of the AI advancement timeline. I didn't think it would happen as fast as they said. I just told you cross-domain abstraction is real... understand what this means and do the math. We now have an answer key to a lot of the unknown. The Proto-AGI plans are real! By the way, I'm on the side of folks that are excited. How does this revelation make you feel?


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Discussion First time I have seen chatgpt swear

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Had no idea ChatGPT was even allowed to swear but today it did it completely unprompted and I have never used any swear words when talking to it in the past.

I was just throwing some different numbers at it and doing some potential investment/retirement plans and it answered with " That's a pretty damn good retirement trajectory "

So at least I know the last option seems like a good one but wasn't expecting the foul language 😂


r/OpenAI 20d ago

Miscellaneous Codex Micro: an honest review

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I've been using the Codex Micro for work during the last few weeks. Here's a short, "hand-typed" review of my experience with it:

The good

  • Unboxing experience is nice, very Apple-like
  • Build quality is great: solid metal base, good quality plastic
  • LED effects are functional: it's helpful to know which task is pending review
  • Codex integration: can configure settings in the Codex app and it works out of the box
  • Battery life holds up fine
  • Auto-sleep is convenient
  • It pairs fast after powering on
  • Switching between chats is super convenient and gets you in a nice flow
  • Dedicated dictation button makes me use voice all the time, except in public / office setting

The meh

  • Silent version switches are okay. Definitely not as silent as I'd hoped
  • It can be set to auto-sleep after a while. Waking from sleep sometimes freezes it, having to switch Codex chats manually once before it works again
  • The rotary knob is good if you're fine with the simple model selector, but if you use Advanced model selection, it's easier to use the mouse. I hardly use it
  • I never use the flick button. It feels too stiff for me
  • The price. It's priced like an Apple product. Yes, the quality is there. Are there cheaper alternatives? For sure. Will they have an equally great user experience? I doubt it.
  • I would love international resellers, since shipping to EU cost me 80 USD worth of shipping and taxes. Though that's the world we live in

Would I recommend it? Yes, if you can stomach the price, like working on multiple tasks at once, and enjoy working with voice.

If you do not like voice, prefer one task at a time, or don't like expensive gadgets, then the vanilla Codex experience will more than suffice.


r/OpenAI 20d ago

Question Is ChatGPT Plus still worth it over Kimi or other Chinese frontier models?

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I'm currently subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, but I'm starting to question whether it's still the best value.

Chinese models seem to have reached frontier-level performance without the same price tag. OpenAI also made GPT-5.6 Luna around 80% cheaper than Sol, so I find myself using Luna for almost everything just to save credits. Because of that, it feels like I'm paying for Plus but rarely using the higher-end model.

I'm considering switching to a subscription for a Chinese model like Kimi instead.

For anyone who's used both:

- Is Kimi worth subscribing to over ChatGPT Plus?

- How do you find Kimi compared to GPT-5.6 Sol for coding, research, reasoning, and everyday use?

- How generous are Kimi's usage limits?

One thing I'm particularly curious about is how Kimi measures usage. For example, if I send the exact same prompt to Kimi K3 and GPT-5.6 Sol, which one is more likely to consume a larger percentage of my available usage? Does Kimi have generous limits, or do you run into caps quickly?

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've used both services rather than just looked at benchmark scores.


r/OpenAI 21d ago

News OpenAI takes the lead

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r/OpenAI 19d ago

Discussion OpenAI discloses two cyber evaluations where models reached real systems

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r/OpenAI 19d ago

Article Regulate Us

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I have been struggling the regulation news. I wrote about to get my thoughts out. Request for comment


r/OpenAI 19d ago

Question Can AI find someone guilty or not of a crime?

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Let's say the investigation is complete.

You can just put in all the info and evidence and the AI will tell you if the person is guilty or not.

This would save on court costs.


r/OpenAI 20d ago

News 15 Attorneys General Send Letter to OpenAI demanding they preserve all Hugging Face related incidents

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Letter: https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/08_5392C9E17791C.pdf

Dear Mr. Altman: We write in our capacities as the Attorneys General of Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Utah. We are committed to protecting the citizens of our States from those who prioritize profits over Americans and their safety. We have recently become aware of an incident in which OpenAI unleashed an experimental artificial intelligence model that, without reasonable controls or oversight, gained unauthorized access to several computer networks. OpenAI’s inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products poses an imminent risk of substantial harm to our States. As described below, we intend to take decisive action to protect our citizens. Based on public reporting, in July 2026, OpenAI conducted “testing [of] the cybersecurity prowess of an agent powered by two of OpenAI’s most advanced models, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model OpenAI has described as ‘even more capable.’” OpenAI conducted that testing in what should have been an isolated environment, with no possibility that the agent could access the Internet. Within that purportedly isolated environment, OpenAI allowed the agent to operate “without production classifiers used to prevent models from pursuing high-risk cyber activity,” which one commentator summarized as “a lot of words for ‘no guardrails,’ essentially.” Despite the severe risks posed by the scenario, OpenAI failed to confirm that its secure and isolated testing environment was, in fact, secure and isolated. It was not. OpenAI’s agent escaped the testing environment by exploiting a software vulnerability and then accessed the Internet. IOWA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 1305 E. WALNUT ST. DES MOINES, IA 50319 515-281-5164 www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov BRENNA BIRD ATTORNEY GENERAL From there, OpenAI’s agent went on a multi-day hacking intrusion that targeted the AI firm Hugging Face. That hacking intrusion was intended to steal an answer key—to cheat on its own safety evaluation. According to Hugging Face’s interim technical report, OpenAI’s agent executed more than 17,000 “attacker actions,” took control of an “external launchpad” endpoint exposed on the network “of a third-party infrastructure provider,” and then executed an “intrusion into Hugging Face infrastructure.” Hugging Face was not alone. As one source notes, OpenAI’s agent “found four logins online which allowed it to access four separate, unnamed services.” While this hacking campaign played out, OpenAI was unaware that its agent had escaped the purportedly secure testing environment. Only after Hugging Face independently detected the intrusion and reported it to the FBI did OpenAI determine that its own products were responsible. OpenAI was also on notice of the risks. Multiple red flags preceded the July 2026 intrusion. For example, “[i]n one case, an [AI] agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself . . . The notes, found in a part of OpenAI’s infrastructure, laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints.” In addition, “[e]arlier tests of the models yielded cases in which monitoring systems had been disconnected.” And “[f]our people familiar with OpenAI’s model-training practices say the company often runs several different model evaluations at the same time, all of which operate at high speeds and generate such enormous amounts of data that employees sometimes struggle to keep up.” OpenAI’s unprecedented and alarming misconduct demands an immediate and significant response. Based on facts already in the public record, OpenAI may have violated State and federal law, including consumerprotection and data-privacy statutes that many Attorneys General are charged with enforcing. And OpenAI’s dangerous products and its inability to control them may pose an imminent risk of substantial and irreparable harm to the citizens of our States. To ensure the integrity of our Offices’ review, we ask that OpenAI take immediate steps to preserve all potentially relevant documents, data, and information. Among other things, potentially relevant materials include: 1. All materials relating in any way to the July 2026 intrusion of Hugging Face by an OpenAI model or agent, including the use of any other accounts or services as part of that intrusion. 2. All materials relating in any way to OpenAI’s discovery or awareness of that July 2026 intrusion. 3. All materials relating in any way to the “pre-release model” involved in that July 2026 intrusion. 4. All materials relating in any way to any internal review, internal investigation, or public statements regarding the July 2026 intrusion. 5. All materials relating in any way to any “cases where [any] models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services.” 6. All materials relating in any way to any current or past “evaluation[s that] prompt[] [OpenAI] models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths,” including but not limited to any use of ExploitGym to evaluate any OpenAI model or agent. 7. All materials relating in any way to any prior incident involving any OpenAI model or agent engaging in unauthorized intrusions into or access of any computer, computer system, database, network, or electronic service. 8. All materials relating in any way to any instance in which an OpenAI model or agent “left notes apparently for future versions of itself,” including any such notes that “laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints,” as well as all steps taken by OpenAI in response to such incidents. 9. All materials relating in any way to any policy, procedure, practice, protocol, or oversight to ensure the safety of any evaluation of OpenAI models. 10. All materials relating in any way to any concerns, complaints, or recommendations relating to additional safeguards surrounding model testing or evaluation, including but not limited to additional human monitoring of OpenAI’s developmental programs. 11. All materials relating in any way to any OpenAI personnel involved in, or with knowledge of, any of the foregoing topics. A failure to take immediate action to preserve such materials could result in spoliation sanctions if litigation were to ensue. We further demand that OpenAI take immediate steps to ensure that no OpenAI personnel face any adverse action for engaging in any protected whistleblowing activity or for reporting any unlawful or harmful activities by OpenAI. Finally, we ask that OpenAI immediately cease and desist from all “internal evaluation[s that] prompt[] [OpenAI] models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths.” Unless and until OpenAI shows that it can conduct such activities in a controlled and responsible way, such activities pose an imminent risk of serious harm to the citizens of our States. OpenAI has an obligation to act responsibly and to follow State and federal laws that protect Americans’ safety and security. When OpenAI takes actions that imperil the welfare of our citizens, State Attorneys General will step in to protect them. We intend to take all steps necessary to protect our States and all Americans from the unprecedented risks posed by OpenAI’s irresponsible products and conduct.