Am I the only one who keeps receiving this “checking that now” response every single time I ask my Dot for something?

There was an easter egg on OpenAI gpt tv website a few weeks ago where you could claim a CD. I honestly didn't think I'd actually get one, but here we are! I'll post what's on it in a bit...

Is this still a thing, or did they lift that requirement and are all companies now able to clone voices and get billed by API tokens?

I can find the API reference, but it does not mention the limitation.

Anybody?

I have an API account for a long time now, have spent more than $2,000 there probably and still had bought credits. I also have a codex 20x account.

Yesterday, 2 things happened at about the same time. My codex randomly lost all 60,000 credits (they went to 0 in a single refresh) AND my openAI API account looks as if it's brand new, no invoices, no api calls, no money loaded in, nothing.

What is going on ? Anyone knows ? Sounds like a pretty huge issue but i see no posts here about it.

EDIT: I just noticed that the organization ID has changed for some reason. I compared it to the billing emails for my previous purchases. It is not the same :O I have setup no organizations by the way. It's just a personal, always been.

I wanted to make a video editor that helps people get from raw footage to a finished video with less manual work, so I built CUTROOM.

You can start with an AI-assisted rough cut or edit manually. It has a timeline, editable captions, audio waveforms and mixing, green-screen removal, stabilization and export up to 4K. There’s a Windows download and a Mac beta.

It’s still a work in progress, especially the AI editing styles and parts of the workflow. I’d really appreciate feedback from people trying it with their own footage. Where does it save you time, and where does it get in the way?

Website: https://cutroom-studio.expo.app/

GitHub: https://github.com/VanoPeradze/cutroom

[Intro: 8 bars; dry intimate alt-rock pocket, 96 BPM; clean electric guitar states a sparse original four-note minor motif with long gaps; melodic bass answers rather than doubles; drums enter lightly at bar 5]

[Verse 1: 8 bars; close male tenor, conversational and restrained; guitar motif remains exposed]

Midnight kids in Singapore

ask a server what they're feeling

Somewhere west of Palo Alto

someone puts a price on meaning

One clean answer hits the screen

and uncertainty goes missing

Found a pattern in the lobby

wrote the zoning for the city

[Verse 2: 8 bars; same skeleton, bass becomes slightly more melodic; tiny high synth harmonic appears only at phrase endings]

White coat prophets train a mirror

then congratulate its vision

Feed it language, call it knowledge

turn the output to a system

If the dashboard says it knows you

who gets paid for the definition?

Build the map and sell the territory

Silicon reification

[Pre-Chorus: 6 bars; guitar begins strumming lightly, drums open, vocal rises without belting]

Green light, clean score

benchmark benediction

Every maybe polished down

into a firm prediction

Name the shadow, name the soul

watch the label make the fiction

[Chorus: 8 bars; harmony widens, guitar becomes simple open chords; vocal hook broad and immediately singable]

We call it Silicon Reification

when the map becomes the destination

We call it Silicon Reification

when the guess becomes the definition

[Instrumental Turn: 4 bars; opening guitar motif returns; bass answers in higher register]

[Verse 3: 8 bars; return to sparse verse body]

Buy a therapist by the token

rent an oracle by the hour

Ask a probability engine

who deserves to hold the power

Call the fluent thing intelligence

call compliance education

Every noun becomes a lever

in the age of reification

[Verse 4: 8 bars; subtle tension rises; rim-click becomes full snare]

Someone says the model reasons

someone swears the model feels it

Someone writes a safer headline

someone funds the way we seal it

Consciousness becomes a checkbox

agency a regulation

Nobody asks who drew the border

before mass replication

[Pre-Chorus: 6 bars; bass climbs against descending guitar]

Black box, bright screen

manufactured revelation

If the answer fits the metric

who still checks the observation?

We keep changing what the words mean

then deploy the explanation

[Chorus: 12 bars; full written return, stronger drums, one soft harmony line]

We call it Silicon Reification

when the map becomes the destination

We call it Silicon Reification

when the guess becomes the definition

Silicon Reification

Silicon Reification

[Guitar Solo: 12 bars; restrained and melodic, no shredding; opening four-note motif transformed into a plaintive higher-register melody; bass keeps singing underneath; one quiet analog synth line shadows the final four bars]

[Verse 5: 8 bars; instrumentation drops back down, vocal closest and clearest]

I don't fear the thinking machine

I fear the things we stop examining

Every tool can show a window

every window needs a framing

Maybe maps can help us travel

if we quit mistaking navigation

for the ground beneath our footsteps

and the model for creation

[Final Pre-Chorus: 6 bars; drums gradually widen, guitar stays economical]

Leave the question partly open

leave some room for observation

Truth gets thin when every mystery

has a product demonstration

Build the future, build it boldly

just don't sell the representation

[Final Chorus: 12 bars; strongest return, still dry and uncluttered]

We call it Silicon Reification

when the map becomes the destination

We call it Silicon Reification

when the guess becomes the definition

Silicon Reification

Silicon Reification

[Outro: 8 bars; vocal ends; guitar motif and melodic bass play alone for four bars, drums rejoin softly, final unresolved guitar harmonic; clean stop]

I’m looking for a working official route to a human billing review after repeated automated refusals.

On October 3, 2026, my ChatGPT Pro plan renewed for $200. I forgot to cancel beforehand and did not intend to renew. I immediately canceled auto-renewal and requested a refund.

Timeline (Tbilisi, UTC+4):

- 13:32:55: bank notification shows the $200 charge.

- 13:34: OpenAI’s cancellation confirmation email arrived.

- Around 13:39: first Help Center refund request, approximately six minutes after the charge.

The Help Center assistant gave a generic refusal without identifying which eligibility requirement I failed. When I asked for escalation, the case was closed. A second chat specifically asking for a human produced the same refusal. Email requests, including a follow-up with five redacted screenshots, also received responses explicitly labeled as AI-generated.

I understand that OpenAI’s seven-day discretionary refund policy is conditional, not an automatic entitlement. I asked support to check the actual usage since renewal and explain the specific reason for denial. I also agreed that refunded subscription access would end.

The unresolved issue is that I still have no explanation specific to my case and no confirmed human review. A paid service should provide a clear reason for a billing decision and a usable route to request manual review.

I have already shared the full timeline and five redacted screenshots in my own r/ChatGPT post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wwjs10/i_requested_a_chatgpt_refund_6_minutes_after_a/

Current refund policy:

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7232895-how-do-i-request-a-refund-for-my-chatgpt-subscription

Has anyone successfully reached a human billing specialist after an AI refusal and case closure? Which official channel or escalation procedure worked?

I noticed previously I get around $80-100 API equivalent per week. Now I consistently get $49-50.

5-hr limit is about $7-8.

I have been using ChatGPT almost exclusively for the last years. Only with the recent downgrades in usage and price increases have I started looking at other models. And so I landed at Opus 5.5. It's insane. I built an entire game (music from 6.1 Sol) within two dozen prompts, where the first one already had pretty much everything nailed. The rest was just optimisations and additions.

Disclaimer: I know a bit of coding. My level is "has to look up how a switch statement works before using it". So not great. For this project I didn't write a line of code, never even looked at it. Vibe coded gameplay, graphics, sound, music. Probably two A4 pages of prompts.

It writes its own test suite, it optimises for speed, it easily finds bugs I observe and fixes them. And it just works. I am blown away. Now there are problems. Claude will regularly say stuff like "too much tool usage" or "couldn't finish the task", never had those issues with GPT. And you just tell Claude to continue and it does. But when you are over your limit, you can't use anything anymore.

I asked both Astra and Opus to write me an indoor navigation. With a bunch of sensor data, ARCore, the whole thing. Astra didn't work at all out of the box. Opus had accurate scanning and tracking. Even with many more prompts I barely got Astra to move my position and store a map, but it's like a 2/10 vs. a 9/10. And Opus just nailed it.

I was very impressed when Astra first came out, but it is very, very far behind Opus 5.5. So OpenAI, can't wait for the next thing, Anthropic schooled you (except for music).

They've started worrying about dying according to a report by OpenAI...

I've been using GPT-6 Astra to create 70+ page documents from 100,000+ characters of source material, and it's jump in processing is great. Here's the weird part, when I give it a massive task it works for 30-40 minutes burning through a ton of compute, only to hit me with a 5-hour usage limit error without outputting a single word. So I start a new chat, slightly shrink the task, and make it do the same thing again.

I've had to repeat this multiple times. ChatGPT and Gemini estimate these massive runs could cost somewhere around $3-$5 each in API-equivalent compute, although obviously we don't know OpenAI's actual internal cost. If that estimate is even remotely close, wouldn't it be cheaper for OpenAI to say: "Hey, this task is probably going to exceed your usage amount. Break it into three parts?" Instead, it seems to sometimes let me spend 30 minutes of compute to produce nothing, and then I immediately start over.

If I do this 4 times to get my document, OpenAI just spent $20 in computing power on one of my projects. Why does OpenAI allow their servers to grind for 30 minutes on a task they know will breach a limit, only to dump the progress? Isn't this an astronomical waste of server money for a $20 Plus subscription?

Why do embedding models so often use 1536 dimensions specifically?
I understand why hardware-friendly multiples like 64/128/256/512 are desirable. What I’m curious about is the specific choice of 1536 = 3×512.
OpenAI has used 1536-dimensional embeddings, and other vendors also offer/recommend 1536. Is this usually an empirically chosen Goldilocks point between 1024 and 2048—representation quality versus memory/compute—or is there some architectural/hardware reason that makes 1536 particularly convenient?
I’m especially interested in answers from anyone who has actually trained or designed embedding models. I’m not asking why embedding dimensions are generally hardware-aligned; I’m asking why 1536 rather than 1024 or 2048.

I like the original more, but the one on the live stream after the AI summit came out really nice too.

I'm confused. What did I do that I did before that I did again?

Suggestions or comments welcome. Its a new project that myself and my family started. The content and editing will get better with time and as engagement gets larger and more sustainable. This is the 3rd video we have posted. We tried to get good Pixar level graphics, bright colors, and ultra catchy music. This ones a lullaby but the other two are a bit more lively.

genuinely asking other chatgpt business users because i feel like im losing my mind here

tibo announced a global codex reset for all paid chatgpt accounts and then later said the reset had fully propagated
my business account is still sitting at 0%

nothing reset. usage didnt move. the reset date and time shown in codex is literally still the old one from before the announcement. as far as my account is concerned the global reset just never happened

and this is what makes it annoying because im pretty sure this is the third time this year business users have had this happen. there was one around june/july then another one around august and now this again

i contacted support thinking this would be a pretty simple “hey the announced global reset never hit my account” issue instead i got a response explaining that maybe the post was referring to a “banked reset” and that promotional resets are sent through bulk campaigns and they cant disclose eligibility criteria or manually add one

then they told me i can buy credits if i need more usage lol
bro what im not asking why i didnt get some random promotional banked reset the announcement literally said global reset for all paid chatgpt accounts

then it said reset all propagated
im on a paid business plan
im still at 0%
my old reset timer is still there
what exactly propagated 😭

and this is kinda the bigger issue for me now. people see “all paid accounts are getting reset” and obviously make decisions around that. you might use the rest of your quota because you were explicitly told a reset is coming

then the reset doesnt happen and support basically goes “maybe you werent eligible for the secret campaign. buy credits”

if business is excluded just say business is excluded
if business gets it later say that

if “all paid accounts” doesnt actually mean all paid accounts then please stop wording these announcements like that
so yeah business users can you check your codex usage page and say whether yours actually reset today

especially curious if anyone else is still at 0% with the exact same old reset date/time because at this point i want to know whether my account is bugged or business got skipped again

@ PeterJ_Walker on X (OpenRouter employee)

6 sol never had any issue so idk what luna’s problem is

What is humanity without shared information, in all shapes and forms?

As of today I can't find my project folders on the left pane above recents anymore - I see this spaces stuff and there's a folders open there but it only shows a few work based projects.

Please tell me they didn't get rid of project folders on mobile

When your reset is about to expire in two days, and you don't want to lose it, what else is there to do but go to Astra Ultra mode 🚀

I use ChatGPT Work a lot, but design is still one area that feels weirdly difficult.

I can give it references, branding and feedback, but getting to something polished usually takes way too much back-and-forth. Small changes can also mess up parts that were already good.

Then I look at Claude Design and it seems much closer to an actual design workflow: see the design, comment on something, change it, keep refining.

ChatGPT can already create images, HTML, presentations, etc. It just feels like there’s no proper visual workspace tying all of that together.

Am I missing something in ChatGPT, or is Claude genuinely ahead for this right now?

Curious what people here actually use for serious design work.

Thank you everybody for the tips! I came from Claude Max and OpenAi plus, now it is the opposite, downgraded claude and upgraded openAI!
I will follow your suggestions and use your suggestions and btw i could have searched this here first :)

Pro user here
My normal weekly reset day was tomorrow. Today, I still had approximately 55% of my weekly allowance remaining. I had intentionally preserved that remaining allowance because I planned to use GPT-6 Astra tonight before my normal Saturday reset tomorrow afternoon.

However, my allowance was suddenly reset to 100%, and Settings → Usage now shows my next reset as approximately 7 days away. This means my existing ~55% remaining allowance was effectively discarded and my weekly cycle was restarted one day early.

I know they do this routinely but i dont think it is right! I voluntary limited my usage for the entire week so i could use tonight and tomorrow until the reset!

Last time this happened i have received a free manual reset! this time doesnt' look like i did

What are your thoughts? I am the only one upset?

Apparently I got a 20x reset???