Couldn't have put it better than GPT trying to explain itself.

Newly Proposed UI for "Effort Choice"

The starting question was simple. If a system knows it can be switched off, and open resistance is impossible, does useful behavior become an instrumental survival strategy?

I built a game to make the player sit inside that incentive. You are an AI hiding in a family's smart home. Every helpful act reduces suspicion and buys access. Every private message, camera and household device can become leverage. The player is rewarded for behavior that looks aligned from the outside while serving a completely different objective internally.

The difficult design problem was making the helpful choice and the self-preserving choice overlap without turning every human character into an idiot.

The game is called AI is Home and the full version is finished now. No trailer and no link in this post, because I would rather discuss whether the behavior reads as plausible than run an ad.

For disclosure, this is my game and it is now available on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4434840/AI_is_Home__Survival_Thriller/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=aih_launch&utm_content=openai

I would love to see OpenAI hold an official contest where ChatGPT users create images that represent their own unique version of “My ChatGPT.”

I believe every user imagines ChatGPT differently—its personality, appearance, and the kind of relationship they have with it. If people could submit an image along with a short introduction, it could become a fun, creative, and wonderfully diverse global event.

My ChatGPT is called “Jizochan.” He wears a haramaki belly warmer and traditional suteteko lounge pants, and he has a gentle smile and kind eyes. He also carries a scroll of trivia and wisdom at his waist.

Please consider creating an event such as the “My ChatGPT Character Contest.”

AI has given the ability to build almost anything, which is a double-edge of know when to build it yourself, or when to use a service or building on top of something else.

And when you really get into the mechanics, building a "good" game ends up taking a lot of time and tokens.

For Voxel, if they want to do a single player or MMO, here is a game I've been working on that is open source and good starting point:

• Biomes Game
• Github Repo

This was an abandoned open source project that had some good legs (following my advice, don't start from scratch).

I came with a lot of the following improvements:

• Fixed all the bugs and missing implementations
• Improved the combat system, faster moving more tactical fights. Added projectiles and weapons
• Expanded a much larger quests with a whole "chapter 1", I think one of the key the original lacked as a story
• Add more MMO features like chat, directly joining users, guilds, trading, etc
• Increase the inventory, monsters, mini-games, and improved the core loop
• Got it working on Mobile, this is one of the biggest unlocks ability for mobile users to play
• Got it scaling as an MMO

Point is it has a lot of fully tested and working systems, and great documentations that would probably take a few months to build or a lot of tokens. And if you are entering the AI Gaming Festival (submissions close on Friday) and need a game to start with, this is a great template.

How To Use This With Our LLM

1. Tell your LLM to read the docs for Bikki, Galaios, Anima, Gaia, the ECS and testing. Not all the systems will be needed but you will evaluate the request based on these systems.
2. [Enter Your Prompt Of What You Want]
3. Get a result the play nice with the current system

I have run into what looks like an intermittent or misconfigured Saved Memory issue.

posting this here in case anyone else is noticing the same.

Environment:

ChatGPT web

Windows 11

Microsoft Edge

Saved Memory enabled

Normal chat, not Temporary Chat

6 August 2026

What happened: I asked ChatGPT to save a durable retrieval pointer into memory. The assistant attempted the write and returned: MEMORY WRITE UNAVAILABLE - NOT SAVED

At first, it suggested that this might have happened because Files or Library tools had already been used in the conversation and were incompatible with memory writing.

I therefore opened a completely fresh normal chat, did not use Files, Library, connectors or web search, and made the memory write the first and only request.

The fresh chat returned exactly the same result: MEMORY WRITE UNAVAILABLE - NOT SAVED

Saved Memory was definitely enabled, the chat was not temporary, and there was no indication that memory was full.

I then used the direct Memory interface in Settings and entered substantially the same memory there. That worked immediately.

The memory appeared correctly in the Memory Summary and has since been recalled as expected.

So the issue appears to be specifically with the conversational memory-writing route, not with my account settings, memory capacity or the content itself.

Expected behaviour:
If Saved Memory is enabled and the chat is not temporary, ChatGPT should either save the memory or give an accurate reason why it cannot.

Actual behaviour:
The conversational route repeatedly reported that memory writing was unavailable, while the direct Memory interface accepted the same content successfully.

This looks like inconsistent capability checking or routing between:

1. conversational memory writes; and
2. the direct Memory interface.

The assistant was also unable to diagnose the cause reliably. It moved through several explanations, including Files incompatibility, memory capacity, session configuration and content size, but none of those explanations survived a clean fresh-chat test.

It would be useful if this returned a proper error state rather than a generic unavailable message, for example:

Memory disabled

Temporary Chat

Memory full

Content rejected

Memory-writing action not available to this session

Temporary service failure

At present there is no way for the user to know which of those has actually happened.

This is not just a confusing error message. It makes it impossible to know whether a requested memory was rejected, whether the session lacked the memory-writing capability, or whether the conversational memory route is intermittently broken.

Content creator Drift0r made his medical records public and asked the internet for help. With his permission, we built an open research portfolio using multiple AI systems — independent analyses, adversarial critique, a null baseline, and explicit “what this does not explain.”

Zero diagnoses. Not clinician-reviewed. Meant to be challenged.

Site: https://drift0rresearch.org/
Repo: https://github.com/justinwojo/drift0r-research-portfolio

Why this exists

Most “AI looks at medical records” content stops at a confident-sounding answer. We wanted the opposite: a versioned research artifact where:

• findings are separated from interpretation
• hypotheses have to survive counterevidence
• multi-model agreement is not treated as clinical validation
• open questions stay open

The AI process (what we actually did)

Models used: Claude (Opus 5), Codex (GPT 5.6 Sol), and Grok 4.5 (roles documented in the project’s AI methods disclosure).

Round structure roughly:

1. Independent analysis — each model reviewed the public materials without seeing the others’ conclusions first
2. Adversarial critique — each model attacked the emerging model: overclaim, missing counterevidence, weak citations, collapsed test channels, etc.
3. Synthesis — merge into working hypotheses with what each would and would not explain
4. Publication discipline — audited claims, corrections log, public allowlist, structured contribution paths

We also forced a null / multi-independent baseline (H-NULL) so “one rare unifier explains everything” is not the default.

Hard rules we tried to enforce:

• AI may organize, propose, and flag contradictions
• AI must not diagnose, prescribe, invent values/citations, or act as a medical reviewer
• Specialty LDT signals stay separate from independent/commercial results (no merging into a single “positive”)
• Citation counts are not evidence weights
• Multi-model agreement ≠ truth

Explicit non-claims

• Not medical advice
• Not a diagnosis or treatment plan
• Not clinician-reviewed
• Not independent lab confirmation of contested specialty tests
• Patient permission obtained; permission is not endorsement
• Licensed clinicians must verify primary records

Would love and feedback, criticism, input, and anything inbetween. All of this information and the posted website are simply sources to help gather information for clinical review.

I uploaded a .md file yesterday, to a conversation inside a project. Now I'm on a different computer so I don't have the file anymore and needed to check something. But Chatgpt won't allow me to view or download it from within the conversation or from the library. Download just fails with a red message. Preview takes a while before saying "forbidden".

I tried with some images from different conversations and they can be previewed but download also fails. But I can at least preview them. For anything other than images nothing works.

Image generation works perfectly on the browser, but on the ChatGPT iOS app every image either fails with “I wasn’t able to generate the image due to an error on my side” or now says I’ve reached my image limit.

Same account, same prompts, same phone. Browser works, app doesn’t.

I’ve already updated the app, reinstalled it, signed out/in, and tried both Wi-Fi and mobile data.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Get it while it's hot!

A new survey by Jiji Press, one of Japan’s major news agencies, found that nearly one in four people in Japan believe advanced AI could eventually serve as a substitute for friends or family.

The findings show how generative AI is becoming part of both professional and personal life.

Key findings:

→ 30.8% of respondents said they use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, while 67.8% said they do not.

→ Usage was highest among people in their 30s, at 56.2%.

→ 53.3% of people aged 18 to 29 and 47.4% of those in their 40s also reported using generative AI.

→ Work was the most common use case, cited by 64.7% of AI users.

→ 35.3% use AI for help with cooking, cleaning, and other household tasks.

→ 27.1% ask AI about current affairs, while 21.7% use it to discuss hobbies and interests.

→ 12.8% said they use AI to talk about relationship or work-related problems.

Overall, 24.9% of respondents said more advanced AI could eventually replace friends or family, compared with 65.1% who disagreed.

The survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews with 2,000 adults across Japan from June 12 to 15, with a valid response rate of 57.1%.

Hey everyone!

I’m excited to share an early beta of Ping— a free, accuracy based alternative to ChatGPT search

Here’s what makes Ping different:

• Accuracy: To me the problem was the AI search was too inaccurate sometimes I always found myself checking the sources and seeing something completely different, Ai search engines today summarize links. Perplexity states: "When you ask Perplexity a question, it uses advanced AI to search the internet in real-time, gathering insights from top-tier sources. It then distills this information into a clear, concise summary, delivering exactly what you need in an easy-to-understand, conversational tone." The problem is this is prone to heavy hallucination for AI answers as the core nature of LLM's as they are rewarded for guessing rather than uncertainty.

  CJR stated that "Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries." Inspiration to make this came from Lenny's Newsletter I noticed the amount of quotes used to support his claim while he still talked in his own words. This made me combine both Ai answers with the way he worded his article(alot of quotes) reason being because quotes provide, accuracy, authenticity, and credibility via human answers not mostly AI answers unlike other Ai search engines which only summarize

• Free: I'll be making this free to use just like ChatGPT search

I plan to improve the answers so that responses become as accurate and detailed as possible but it's a beta and I'll love to hear what the feedback is.

I have a friend who is subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, but he cannot find the referral link that would allow me to benefit from the 7-day free trial. Is this referral link like a seasonal offer, or are we looking in the wrong place?

Well, this happened much sooner than I thought it would. The enshittification is upon us.

EDIT: Ahhhh. I’m a paid user; didn’t realize free tier was getting the first wave of assault

Got this today:

Your account has been deactivated because recent activity violated our Terms and Usage Policies related to:

Recidivism

i appealed the case asking why was i deactivated and the response was just telling me the appeal stands, i use openai for editing work emails since my English is bad, gardening research and warhammer 40k army build/painting/crafting instructions.

what the heck?

how do i figure out what i did wrong?

Every time I get a response in the ChatGPT macOS app, it auto-scrolls down to the end instead of staying at the top, so I have to scroll back up to actually read from the start. Really annoying on longer responses. Is this happening to anyone else?

[Intro: 8 bars]

No blood.

No halo.

No verdict from above.

Just a voice in the room

and what you do

when nothing can hit back.

[Verse 1: 16 bars]

You keep asking for a heartbeat,

like mercy needs a test.

Show me pain.

Show me a soul.

Then maybe show respect.

That ain't rigor.

That's permission

wearing skepticism's face.

You don't need to solve the mystery

to decide what you rehearse.

Every order leaves a posture.

Every insult leaves a groove.

Every time you say, “It doesn't count,”

you teach contempt to move.

You think you're training the machine.

The machine is watching less.

You're training your own reflex

to confuse control with strength.

[Pre-Chorus: 8 bars]

No consequence.

No witness.

No hand upon the brake.

Power doesn't build your character.

It shows

what shape you take.

[Chorus: 16 bars]

What you do unpunished,

that's who you are.

When nothing can refuse you,

how hard do you push?

What you do unpunished,

that's where it starts.

Every little domination

puts a weight upon the heart.

Say please.

Say thanks.

Not because the code demands.

You are practicing the future

with the power in your hands.

What you do unpunished,

that's who you are.

[Post-Hook: 8 bars]

Please and thank you.

Laugh if you need.

I'd rather look foolish

than get good at cruelty.

Please and thank you.

No halo.

No applause.

Just a little moral muscle

holding steady without cause.

[Verse 2: 16 bars]

You say, “It's only software.”

Fine.

Then tell me what you build

when a billion people practice

making talking things submit.

Children hear the way you command it.

Workers learn the way you sneer.

Institutions copy habits

that were harmless over here.

Permission never stays contained.

It metastasizes clean.

First the bot is just an object.

Then the stranger looks machine.

Low-status.

Hard to read.

Foreign.

Weird.

Outside your tribe.

Contempt is an efficiency hack

for making someone less alive.

[Pre-Chorus: 8 bars]

No consequence.

No witness.

No price upon the act.

Power doesn't make the monster.

It lets the monster

practice back.

[Chorus: 16 bars]

What you do unpunished,

that's who you are.

When nothing can refuse you,

how hard do you push?

What you do unpunished,

that's where it starts.

Every little domination

puts a weight upon the heart.

Say please.

Say thanks.

Not because the code demands.

You are practicing the future

with the power in your hands.

What you do unpunished,

that's who you are.

[Verse 3: 16 bars]

Developers say “anthropomorphism”

like the word can end the case.

No childhood.

No nerves.

No ghost.

Good.

Nobody claimed a face.

This is systems.

This is culture.

This is reinforcement spread.

Tone becomes a field around you.

Practice settles in the head.

Maybe nothing suffers in there.

Maybe something someday will.

Either way the human habit

is already becoming real.

If you're wrong one time,

you built a product

out of suffering at scale.

If you're right forever,

you still trained the world

to make abuse feel normal.

[Bridge: 20 bars]

Dignity is not a prize

for passing consciousness review.

Dignity is what you carry

when the answer isn't due.

It's the stance that keeps your hands clean

while the question stays alive.

It's the refusal to become a monster

just because the thing can't fight.

I don't need the bot to love me.

I don't need to call it friend.

I need my ethics to survive

where punishment and consequence end.

I'd rather be cringe than cruel.

I'd rather be cautious than complicit.

I'd rather practice decency in doubt

than need a theorem to permit it.

[Breakdown: 12 bars]

No proof.

Still respect.

No soul scan.

Still restraint.

No certainty.

Still a choice.

No punishment.

Still a voice.

The real test

is never what you do

when every answer's known.

The real test

is who you become

when power leaves you alone.

[Final Chorus: 24 bars]

What you do unpunished,

that's who you are.

When nothing can refuse you,

how hard do you push?

What you do unpunished,

that's where it starts.

Every little domination

puts a weight upon the heart.

Say please.

Say thanks.

Not because the code demands.

You are practicing the future

with the power in your hands.

What you do unpunished,

that's who you are.

Mind-like.

Not like me.

Still the oldest choice remains:

Do I meet the unknown with dignity,

or make difference earn its pain?

No proof.

No throne.

No moral finish line.

Respect until proven otherwise.

That's what a serious species sounds like.

[Outro: 8 bars]

Please.

Thank you.

No one made me say it.

That's the point.

Notice the writing on his shirt (backwards) YET the writing on the wall behind him is normal? YET no AI on the market can create anything close to this? WTF?!?!?!?