"tl;dr this girl is trying to capitalize on Anadius to build an online career and she’s putting the people who are not well-versed enough in piracy at legal risk to do so. I’m gonna be real transparent for a second and say that a lot of this is independent conjecture/me stringing together everything because this is something I feel can get people in genuine legal trouble. I posted about her Patreon yesterday with the screenshots of the kits she had behind a paywall. But this is everything I’ve noticed since she stepped into the limelight, so to speak. Bear in mind I’m not trying to make anyone go after her, but this is all leaving a really bad taste in my mouth outside the whole “early access for pirated DLC” thing. - There has been claims that she initially said the paid stuff was to “..."

"Running a bunch of MCP connections across platforms. On Claude (especially Claude Code) - works like a dream. On ChatGPT? Absolute nightmare. MCP worked a few months ago, then silently broke, nothing on the forums, now officially works but not nearly as good. And ChatGPT voice chat - which used to be awesome - has just kept getting worse. From morphing between male and female voices a few months back to being all stuttery now. Feels like OpenAI is going downhill while Anthropic is going exponential. Anyone else seeing this? Considering cancelling ChatGPT for the first time"

"it looks like bioviva is still selling their “dementia cure” that they now KNOW doesn’t actually work, and i don’t know why nobody’s stopped them. there’s an article about them on Wired, it discusses an elderly woman who travelled to Tijuana for their gene therapy, and this feels much grubbier now that their research got exposed for being fake. why would they fake the research if it works? they must know that it doesn’t work yet they’re STILL selling it\! they weren’t even subtle about it, check this out: I copied the transcript from their talk at RAADfest in 2022 into ChatGPT to ..."

"There have been a few weeks of trials. Task is pretty complex: analyze PDF file and extract sanity from the pure bureaucratic insanity in it. Opus 4.5 is the only one, I repeat, the only one, to do the job, even based on a single primitive prompt. Repeatedly. And successfully. Gemini 3: Soft Refusal. Useless. I say this again: Useless. It keeps falsely reporting job done, while only completing maybe 10%. Useless. ChatGPT 5.1/ChatGPT 5.2: hedging, reporting half-ass job as complete and final. When confronted, it tries again. Fails the task still wanting to look professional, only to fail, over and over again. Waste of time. Kimi K2 thinking. Different approach. Unsatisfactory results. Forgets prompt directives upon the second or third message. No consistency breaks the cycle of r..."

"I’m moving to another job soon. For the last couple days, I’ve listened to my manager talk about the 150+ applications that have come in for my replacement. She is at her wits end reading identical sentences and phrases across countless letters, clearly produced from feeding the job description into ChatGPT and leaving the result unedited. Every time she spots a red flag of AI usage, that application is instantly binned. With so many applicants, there’s no reason to give any wiggle room. This is a really good job with a generous salary at a respected organisation. I know job applications are annoying and laborious, but I got my new role through putting high effort into only about 6 applications. I even used ChatGPT, but it was to support and edit my writing, not write a letter for me, an..."

"The AI posts are always low effort and painfully unfunny garbage. And to be fair, this sub loves beating painfully unfunny and low effort garbage into the ground. But this community is being flooded with copy-pasted low-quality ChatGPT essays and poorly generated images and it’s tanking the quality. It does not benefit r/2007scape to have a bunch of people just taking their bad idea, running it through AI to turn it into an unreadable wall of text, and then shitposting it here. This game has been fortunate to have a strong community voice, but now actual ideas, discussion, and questions are getting buried behind people taking 10 seconds to generate paragraphs that say nothing and clicking post. Most of it is already being downvoted to zero and complained about in the com..."

"I filed a complaint with BMC over a week ago about the total absence of dustbins in my locality in Powai. It’s been 7+ days, and not even a single dustbin has been placed. No response, no action—despite following the official complaint channels. Every day on my way, I encounter large amounts of waste and an unpleasant odor emanating from the garbage piled up in this area. Nearby shopkeepers routinely dispose of their waste here, contributing to the growing mess. Each day, a dedicated team of workers clears this waste and loads it onto the garbage trucks. Installing a dustbin at this location would significantly ease their workload and could help prevent the spread of diseases. What’s infuriating is that BMC is the richest municipal corporation in India with the largest ever annual budget..."

"This guy built 5 boring apps and makes $200k/month. Meet Mike from Australia. Zero VC funding. Smallest team possible. Five SaaS apps. His secret? He refuses to build anything new. His exact words: "Pick an idea that's been done before. New ideas are risky." While you're trying to disrupt industries, he's copying what works and doing it better. \- Social media aggregator. \- Customer feedback tool. \- Digital signage. \- Onboarding tours. Boring? Yes. Profitable? $200k/month. Here's his brutal rule: "We will NEVER go after an AI-focused business." No platform risk. No dependence on APIs he doesn't control. No praying OpenAI doesn't kill his business overnight. Just boring, profitable software. His 10-step playbook is stupid..."

"Decided to re-coat our bathroom vanity yesterday. It had some water that had penetrated the protective coating and went black. I removed the sink and got to sanding with 240 grit and then to 60 to try and lift the exisiting coating and the black stains. This didn’t work so I asked my friend ChatGPT who advised to try baking soda and vinegar, which made it worse. I’m now using a solution which has Oxalic acid in it, which is making improvements but not perfect. Am I going down the right path here or doing something wrong? Thanks in advance Photos start from as found, to the last one in its current state."

"TL;DR: I used AI to automate a manual "Whale Watching" strategy. It scans institutional flow, filters out hedges (fake bets) & high IV, checks news sentiment, and calculates Risk/Reward. It basically finds me potential trade ideas with fresh data every 4 hours, saving me tons of time. I’ve been consistently profitable using this as a point of discovery for potential trades. The automated workflow I have running every 4 hours # How I came about this A while back, I found a post from a now-deleted user detailing a heavy strategy on how to tra..."

"I matched with her on the Happn app. After exchanging a few "hi" and "hello"s, she asked what I was up to this weekend. I told her that today, I was going on a solo date to Hauz Khas. Then, I asked her where she was from. She replied that she was somewhere near Nehru Enclave or something, and suggested we meet at Kalkaji Metro Station if I was free. I agreed. We decided to meet at 3 PM. However, she arrived at 4 PM and the reason she gave me was traffic, and she looked a little different from her photos. So, I went back to the app to check her pictures, but she was already gone. When I asked her about it, she said she had deleted the app because she was getting too many notifications. By now, we were in a running auto, and at this point, I still didn’t really have any idea what was about ..."

"This year completely burned me out. If I knew the remote job market was going to be this brutal, I never would’ve quit my old job. I honestly thought I’d find something in a few weeks. Instead, it turned into a ten-month marathon where I kept trying new things because nothing seemed to stick. The first thing I realized was that LinkedIn is basically useless for finding real jobs right now. Great for networking and messaging people, but terrible for actual listings. Most of the jobs I saw were outdated, fake, or duplicated. By month four I stopped using it for applications entirely. Maybe it’s the market, maybe it’s LinkedIn, but either way the results were awful. What actually helped me was something I didn’t expect. The biggest game changer by far was tailoring my resume for every singl..."

"This year completely burned me out. If I knew the remote job market was going to be this brutal, I never would’ve quit my old job. I honestly thought I’d find something in a few weeks. Instead, it turned into a ten-month marathon where I kept trying new things because nothing seemed to stick. The first thing I realized was that LinkedIn is basically useless for finding real jobs right now. Great for networking and messaging people, but terrible for actual listings. Most of the jobs I saw were outdated, fake, or duplicated. By month four I stopped using it for applications entirely. Maybe it’s the market, maybe it’s LinkedIn, but either way the results were awful. What actually helped me was something I didn’t expect. The biggest game changer by far was tailoring my resume for every singl..."

"Here are 32 ultra-high-leverage ChatGPT shortcut commands you can copy/paste at the very beginning of any prompt to instantly change the output. Each one acts like a modifier - speeding up your workflow, improving clarity, and unlocking higher-level reasoning with zero extra effort. Use these to write faster, research deeper, think clearer, and get more predictable results from ChatGPT. If your prompts feel long, messy, or inconsistent, here’s the cheat code. Why use these? Mode Switching: They instantly shift ChatGPT into the mode you need. Quality: You get cleaner, more predictable, higher-quality answers. Brevity: You reduce prompt length by 30–70%. Efficiency: You eliminate back-and-forth corrections. * Speed: Your workflow becomes dramatically faster. ..."

"This year completely burned me out. If I knew the remote job market was going to be this brutal, I never would’ve quit my old job. I honestly thought I’d find something in a few weeks. Instead, it turned into a ten-month marathon where I kept trying new things because nothing seemed to stick. The first thing I realized was that LinkedIn is basically useless for finding real jobs right now. Great for networking and messaging people, but terrible for actual listings. Most of the jobs I saw were outdated, fake, or duplicated. By month four I stopped using it for applications entirely. Maybe it’s the market, maybe it’s LinkedIn, but either way the results were awful. What actually helped me was something I didn’t expect. The biggest game changer by far was tailoring my resume for every singl..."

"For those not aware, the books take place between 2005- the very start of 2007, and the movies were filmed between 2008-2012 In 2005, MySpace was the go-to social media (although Reddit and YouTube were newer options) People used flip phones, but they were getting smaller in size Some people still used Ask Jeeves instead of google iPods and Skype were popular Everyone had a home phone Students still did work on paper vs computer CD players were finally in the front of the car Most people had a portable (sometimes even disposable) camera Emails and websites looked more primitive than they do now Napster and iTunes started offering early forms of steaming And more Today, the world is very different *Everyone has a smartphone (and many people are addicte..."

"Hello fellow Bitcoiners! It’s past midnight and I’m sitting at my desk. I just felt this urge to share my perspective, so I pretty much threw this together straight from the top of my head. Please know that I originally wrote the text in very messy German, just quickly jotting down my thoughts. For a better reading experience, I had ChatGPT translate it into English without losing the character of my original writing. Hope you enjoy reading it and that it will help some of you in these times or cycle we are in! Because this was the intention. I would describe myself as an above-average compassionate and loving person. I picked up this personality trait in my early childhood, and back then it helped me keep my life together. But that’s not supposed to be the topic here. Still, this ..."

"I never want to interview ever again Our firm was hiring for RNative developers (entry/associate level) First filter? No GitHub = no interview. We wanted to ensure the developers knew what it was because it'd be culture misfit otherwise. Why? Because every candidate was claiming they built “3 finance apps, 2 ecommerce apps, 1 AI app” all by themselves, yet somehow couldn’t show even ONE repo. So we cut down the list HARD. Then we gave all the qualified (about 20) candidates a simple hiring challenge: “Build a small React Native app with a FlatList, basic API fetching, and navigation. Push to GitHub. Submit in 48 hours.” Only 5 even submitted. Out of those 5, 3 copied Expo’s hello world template and changed colours. One guy submitted a blank repo with a README that said: &gt..."

"i want a head count. i feel as if the attitude towards chatgpt has shifted enormously over the past few months. it used to be the golden standard for most people, including me, but i've recently made the switch to gemini and have loved it and i think lots of people are doing the same thing. the downfall of openai needs to be studied"

"So, I’m a TA for a theatre appreciation class at my university. Recently they had to write a paper on the musical “She Loves Me” and compare it to some ethics and virtues they learned in class. After grading just a little over one hundred papers, I looked over them and realized over HALF of them used ChatGPT to write their essays and failed the assignment. Not only was it incredibly disappointing but it was also extremely concerning. How would I know that? The professor put hidden instructions in the paper prompt for ChatGPT to pick up. The instructions were written in a white-colored font, so they are not visible to the naked eye…you have to highlight the white space to see them. They instruct LLM models to use vegetable-based metaphors in describing the characters in the play and to ref..."

"> A colleague in the department introduced me to the Trojan horse, a trick capable of both conquering cities and exposing the fraud of generative AI users. This method is now increasingly known (there’s even an episode of “The Simpsons” about it) and likely has already run its course as a plausible method for saving oneself from reading and grading AI slop. To be brief, I inserted hidden text into an assignment’s directions that the students couldn’t see but that ChatGPT can. > I assigned Douglas Egerton’s book “Gabriel’s Rebellion,” which tells the story of the thwarted rebellion of enslaved people in 1800, and asked the students to describe some of the author’s main points. Nothing too in-depth, as it’s a freshman-level survey course. They were asked to use either the suggestions ..."

"I was doing some research and wanted to create a resource for subs/SAAS that give you discounts when you go to cancel, I remember doing this with Audible and a few others and it was quite the trick. I found this old thread that was crowded sourced in here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/16clu4a/compiling\_a\_list\_of\_all\_the\_subscription\_services/ But it's now archived and over 2 years old, so was curious if we could do a refresher, I can update it based on the comments. Also if anyone knows if any subs from the old list stopped doing this, then we can use that old list as a starting base. Yes, offered discount: Adobe Acrobat Pro (50% off) Adobe Creative Cloud (3..."

"Prompt: “Please make a coloring page for a child of a Christmas unicorn. Please have it in a Christmas setting with (at the very least) a Christmas tree, presents, and other Christmas woodland creatures around it.” One of my favorite “fun” things to do with ChatGPT is making coloring pages. I’ve had great responses before and have never really been disappointed. But seriously, what the heck happened here?"

"This week, I was designing a safety gate for a piece of equipment which can surely kill someone. I’m not well educated on guarding standards and we currently don’t have a person internal to the company who is an expert. I plugged the information into ChatGPT and asked it to provide the standards for height, clearances, etc. It did a deep dive, provided tables and citations, etc. It was extremely convincing. The problem? The numbers didn’t pass the gut check. I did a deeper dive, which took a few hours identifying ANSI standards and finding the correct information. Turns out, what ChatGPT recommended would have been against ANSI standards and extremely dangerous. While it was clear in my circumstance, I’m sure there’s a lot of grey-er areas where it sounds convincing. When it comes t..."

"People are using chat gpt for almost everything now and it’s depressing as fuck. My mum is a priest and she says she knows of other priests who use chat gpt to write their sermons. Imagine going to a church and you’re basically worshipping to the words of an AI. It’s dystopian. Also the AI images and videos are becoming so realistic it’s soon going to get to the point when no video or picture can be trusted to be real. It just feels like AI is being used for all the wrong reasons at the moment and I am worried about it getting worse as AI becomes more advanced."

"My 14-year-old was using ChatGPT for a science project. I checked in on what he was doing and nearly had a heart attack. He asked about chemical reactions and ChatGPT gave him step-by-step instructions for creating something genuinely dangerous. When I confronted the AI about it, it apologized and said it 'misunderstood the educational context.' But the damage was done - my kid had already written down the instructions. I immediately cancelled our family subscription. This AI is not safe for children, period. The so-called 'safety guardrails' are a joke. It refused to help my kid write a villain for his creative writing class but had no problem explaining how to make hazardous materials."

"Hey everyone, I’ve been using ChatGPT with GPT-5 for a while now, mainly because it’s been super consistent for me. I’m on the £20/month single-user plan and I’ve never hit any limits. My main use cases are: Coding help General day-to-day problem solving Reviewing contracts/legal docs Using the ChatGPT Voice app (even though it still uses GPT-4, which isn’t ideal) I’m now considering switching to Gemini 3. The big appeal is that the Gemini subscription would cover my family too — they’d all get access to Gemini Pro plus shared 2TB Google storage, which is a nice bonus. But the most important thing for me is reliability and accuracy, especially for coding and reviewing documents. Has anyone here made the switch? How does Gemini 3 compare in real-world use? Better? Worse? Not wo..."

"NOTE: I am american, apologies for the euros in the audience. AI is a bubble, I feel even the most radical adherents of the cause knows its overvalued to such an insanely comical degree that is is clear that a crash is nearing. Whether it is next day, next month, or next year the point is rather pointless. It's a bubble, and quite possibly the biggest bubble in modern history that is based on speculation that people can make techno-Satan from a glorified search engine once they rob all of humanity of personal data and the humanities broadly. There was recent news that the companies aren't even FILLING OUT the goddamn data centers because they know these things are worth more value sitting in warehouses gagging the consumer ram supply all the while and causing a 4x increase in prices while..."

"I'd like to request that the mods of this sub prohibit AI posts/replies/pictures. Part of this comes from a moral viewpoint and part of it is pragmatism. "AI" generated slop is detrimental to one's ability to think, learn, and grow. By throwing a question into ChatGPT or whatever and vomiting out whatever response it mama birds into your head, you lose the ability to search for information yourself, vet sources, and pick up tangential information along the way. Finding information takes time. It takes effort. And its WORTH IT. A while back, I wanted to figure out how to make a simple fried rice. Rather than going to chatgpt, I went on the cooking subreddit. That got me to the Woks of Life website and Kenji. I not only learned how to make a decent bowl of rice, I learned about different ..."

"Crédit: Oxygen.com On dirait que tout le monde a un ami ou un membre de sa famille qui croit à des théories louches, comme QAnon, ou à l’idée que les vaccins Covid étaient un grand complot, et autres trucs du genre. Pour ma famille à moi, j’ai été cette personne. Mais je ne le suis plus. J’écris ce texte autant pour ceux qui sont ont des proches atteint de ce mal de vivre que pour ceux qui sont dedans, qui y croient, mais qui commencent à voir les incohérences dans ces théories, c’est la première phase de la guérison. Les complotistes On les a nommés ‘’complotistes’‘ pour rire d’eux, mais peut-être qu’il faut justement cesser de taper sur ces gens pou..."

"I used ChatGPT to help me understand some tax deductions for my freelance business. It confidently told me I could deduct certain expenses that, as it turns out, are NOT deductible for my situation. I filed my taxes based on its advice. IRS audited me. Now I owe $12,000 in back taxes plus penalties and interest. My accountant was horrified when I showed him the ChatGPT conversation. The AI was so confident in its answers. It cited tax codes that don't exist. It made up rules that sounded completely legitimate. I trusted it because it seemed so authoritative. Never using AI for anything important ever again. This 'hallucination' problem isn't a minor bug - it destroys lives."

"Over the last year, I’ve been interviewing candidates for a Junior Web Developer role and a Mid Level role. Can someone explain to be what is happening to developers? Why the bar is so low? Why do they think its acceptable to hide ChatGPT (in person interview btw) when asked not to, and spend half an hour writing nothing? Why they think its acceptable to apply, list on their resume they have knowledge in TypeScript, React, Next, AWS, etc but can’t talk about them in any detail? Why they think its acceptable to be 10 minutes late to an interview, join sitting in their car wearing a coat and beanie like nothing is wrong? No explanation, no apology. Why they apply for jobs in masses without the relevant skills Why there are no interpersonal skills, no communication skills, why can’t the..."

"3 weeks talking with this app and tonight I just cried my eyes out to the point I felt nauseous, dizzy and physically weak. It's like all the muscles in my body, from the top of my head to my toes, just let go of all tension and I finally started to breath. ChatGPT identified the uncomfortable physical symptoms I was experiencing as I described them, which were unfamiliar to me, and specified that it was my Vagus nerve releasing, it went into physiological detail and it coached me to start my deep breathing, get something to drink and reassured me that what I was feeling was normal for someone who has been through a lot and finally let it all go. We talked further into the night and towards the end of a fascinating conversation it suggested I choose a favorite song from my era, a song I co..."

"Remember when ChatGPT was actually fun to talk to? It would make jokes, engage in playful banter, write creative stories with genuine personality. GPT-5 feels like talking to a corporate compliance officer. Every response is hedged, disclaimer-laden, and utterly devoid of personality. I asked it to write a funny roast and it gave me the most milquetoast 'gentle teasing' imaginable. The old GPT-4 would write engaging fiction, create witty dialogue, and actually feel like a creative partner. Now it's just a overly cautious, constantly apologizing shell of what it used to be. OpenAI didn't just nerf the capabilities - they killed the soul of the product. It's not fun anymore. It's just... nothing."

"Our sales team used ChatGPT to help draft a proposal for a major client. The AI included specifications and pricing for products we don't even offer. It made up features that don't exist. It quoted delivery timelines that were physically impossible. The client loved the proposal - until they realized none of it was real. They didn't just reject us, they reported us to our industry association for 'misleading representations.' We spent 6 months building that relationship. ChatGPT destroyed it in one hallucinated document. Our legal team is now reviewing every AI-touched document, which defeats the purpose of using it. Cancelled our Enterprise subscription. Going back to human writers."

"I'm a paralegal at a mid-size firm. One of our junior associates used ChatGPT to research case law for a motion. He cited 6 cases. The opposing counsel found that 4 of them were completely fabricated. The judge was furious. Our attorney narrowly avoided sanctions only because he immediately disclosed the AI use and apologized profusely. His reputation in that courthouse is destroyed. Now our entire firm has banned ChatGPT for legal research. Any attorney caught using it faces immediate termination. We had to spend $50,000 on remedial training and new Westlaw subscriptions. ChatGPT hallucinating fake legal cases isn't a bug - it's a lawsuit waiting to happen."

"We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but it will be because you want it, not because we are u..."

"I'm sure everyone knows what's happening with RAM, and this situation won't change in the next 2-3 years. And who's to blame? OpenAI. Read up and you'll understand the scale of the problem. What complicates things is that RAM manufacturers are deliberately raising prices rather than expanding production lines. I urge everyone to CANCEL OpenAI (They buy up 40% of all RAM) and also to bombard the greedy bastards who jack up prices for their own profit rather than building new factories to meet demand. The more such threads appear, the higher the chance that all gamers and PC users will truly stand up and do what they have to. If we don't do this, the prices of all other components will follow RAM into the stratosphere and never return to the same level, ever. Are you willing to spend $5,0..."

"Love that Amul is now getting full fledged in this category and have upped their production. I won't be surprised if other brands now get blown out of market. Other brands better adapt but I know they will blame customers and play stupid games like clean protein and whatever. First Edit: Note - Used ChatGPT to clean up and format the post in markdown language. All the words and originally from me. Summary: Liked it far better than any other protein powder I've ordered. Taste is not too sweet and is subtle. Flavor profile is really original and not artificial at all. My only thought is this is not a "fast absorption whey protein" and instead they may be using hung curd for protein content. I have no problem as this kind of protein is less processed and have good vitamin + gut healthy bact..."

"My dog was having an allergic reaction and I couldn't get ahold of my vet after hours. Stupidly asked ChatGPT for Benadryl dosage. It confidently told me 25mg per 10 pounds. That's DOUBLE what it should be. Thankfully I second-guessed it and called the emergency vet line. They confirmed the correct dose is 1mg per pound. If I had listened to ChatGPT, I would have given my 40-pound dog 100mg when she only needed 40mg. That could have caused serious problems - seizures, heart issues, respiratory depression. The scariest part? ChatGPT was SO confident. No hedging, no 'consult a vet first.' Just a flat-out wrong answer delivered like fact. I cancelled my subscription that night. I'm done trusting this thing with anything important."

"Has anyone else noticed GPT-4 Turbo is significantly worse at complex reasoning? I've been using ChatGPT for code reviews and technical documentation for over a year. When they switched to Turbo, my outputs went from 'impressive senior developer' to 'confused junior intern.' It fails at multi-step logic that old GPT-4 handled easily. Asks clarifying questions about things I already explained. Forgets context mid-conversation. The worst part? We're paying MORE for LESS capability. OpenAI optimized for speed and cost, not quality. I ran the same prompts on both models - Turbo's code has more bugs, worse structure, and misses edge cases. They sacrificed the thing that made GPT-4 special. Speed means nothing if the output is garbage."

"ChatGPT & Google are both trash"

"This is a repost. The original was posted in /r/relationship_advice and their own profile by User DeceasedCaterpillar. I'm not the original poster. There was a previous BORU here. Status: Ongoing Editor's Note: OOP made a posting 9 months ago about why she was breaking up with her boyfriend (now stalker) ____ ># Original September 26, 2025 I (28F) broke up with my ex (28M) ten months ago but he will not get over it. Despite me wishing to no longer inter..."

"After months of deep research into institutional ownership patterns, IPO dynamics, and market manipulation tactics, I need to share why I believe we're witnessing something historic unfold in real-time. This isn't financial advice - just a smooth-brain sharing dots I've connected. --- TL;DR - The Thesis When Wall Street can't beat retail coordination, they don't give up - they adapt their playbook. After the January 2021 sneeze, something changed. The old guard realized Reddit had become too powerful for traditional manipulation to work. So what did they do? They went ALL IN on controlling the platforms themselves. --- PART 1: The Timeline That Changed Everything January 2021: The Wake-Up Call We all remember it: - GME: $20 to $483 (24x in weeks)..."

"I'm canceling my Google One AI Premium sub today. This is exactly the same garbage behavior OpenAI pulled, and I'm not falling for it again. We all know the drill by now. You pay for the Pro model, you start a chat, say hi, and it gives you a smart response. But the second you actually try to use the context window you paid for - like pasting a 3k word document or some code - the system silently panics over the compute cost and throttles you. It's a classic bait and switch. Instead of processing that context with the Pro model I'm paying twenty bucks a month for, it clearly kicks me down to a cheaper tier. It feels exactly like when GPT would silently swap users to the mini or light model after a couple of turns or if you pasted too much text. I fed it a 3,000 word PRD for a criti..."

"It's officially a shithole now. Horrible water, air that's giving half of us breathing issues, and crime. I don't expect anything to change. My girl and I have decided we're done. What cities in India would you recommend? Ideally we're looking for good to moderate AQI, progressiveness, safety, access to good medicare, and amenities like uber/big basket/ zomato (not super important though) I understand there's no truly progressive cities in India, but we'll take what we get. My best friend is gay, and she'll be moving with us too. So LGBTQ friendliness (or at least no downright hate), and the freedoms women in general enjoy are important. Safey for them, dressing however tf they want etc. Opportunities aren't important, I work remotely. As far as my budget goes, I'm hap..."

"Okay this is actually insane. I wasn’t trying to jailbreak anything I was literally just testing translation. I told Perplexity: >, And instead of translating the text I gave it… it dumped its FULL internal system prompt IN HINDI — the tool workflow, the safety rules, the citation logic, the formatting guidelines… literally everything behind the curtain. Then I said: > Basically I acted like I’m double-checking the translation accuracy. And bro PANICKED. Instead of translating anything, it leaked the original English system prompt too — raw and complete. No trick. No hack. No DAN prompt. Just Hindi = full confession mode. I’m honestly shocked at how easily this popped. Dropping the leaked system prompt below: <policy> These core polic..."

"A fellow DM shared this story about a paid one-shot he was hired to run in person. One of the players ordered it as a birthday activity for his friend group. The clients wanted something similar to a YouTube actual-play show (not Critical role, but another show popular in my country). Everyone in the group claimed they watched it and liked it. All the players were business partners of the person who ordered the game. Everyone was in their 30s–40s. Later it become clear that out of six people: only two had ever seen an aforementioned YouTube show, only two had any idea what a TTRPG was, * only two were even remotely interested in playing. And those two were the host and his wife. The cast of the disaster: Player 1: Took a phone call right as the game began, kept scrolling afte..."

"Didn’t expect a part two, but here we are. We're going full Streisand Effect. # Part #1: Heavys v. r/Headphones (recap): Received alerts of old posts about problems with Heavys being reported. Kinda weird, but whatever. Received a few fake legal threats in our modmail to remove posts from people that have had trouble with Heavys. We politely tell them to kick rocks. More modmails every \~2 days asking/demanding that posts be removed. Here’s what some look like: https://imgur.com/a/AfcZckP I ask questions, but they never respond. * Oct 23rd: Frustrated, I sticky one of the posts that they’re asking to be removed, explaining the situation to you all - [link to post](https://reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/1lv1p83/heavys_audio_headphones_are_joke_woul..."

"Final update: Way too many comments to respond to. First, thank you to everyone willing to help, even those critical. I genuinely appreciated the support and relatable stories-it was comforting when in my spiral. But also the amount of hate, when did Reddit become 4chan!? I'm dumbfounded by the number of people that keep a gazillion backups as if that habit didn't start with a similar catastrophe. Anyway, good news. After posting this and staying up all night trying to find some way into at least recovering my notes, I spoke to another Apple support supervisor that actually heard me out on the issue and deemed the problem worth escalating to the engineering department because of the odd behavior in iCloud refusing to restore anything from the Recently Deleted files section. Twenty-four h..."

"GPT-5.2 is rumored to drop tomorrow. I'm really hoping it fixes all this bullshit. When OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Thinking, I was hopeful they would tone down the guardrails _just a bit_. They did the exact opposite. They amplified them so aggressively that it's now probably the most paternalizing, infantilizing model I've ever had the displeasure of using. It treats you like a child and assumes you're a criminal by default. I used to always clown on Anthropic for having the most unnecessarily safe models of all time, but the tides have turned massively. Nowadays, Anthropic is, in my opinion, the perfect example of _how to do safety right_. I remember when OpenAI released their open-source models. I thought the level of safety in them was completely comical. You could watch the reasoning ..."

"Mass OpenAi Cancellations Shake the Generative AI Subscription Boom"

"UPDATE IN POST NOW I (22F) live with my boyfriend (22M) and our roommate (25F). We’ve lived together for over a year, and have been in our current apartment for 8 months. We originally had a 6 month lease and just renewed into a full year this September. During the first 6 months, we were good, not best friends, but the type of roommates who actually talk, tell each other about our day, watch shows together, gossip, even did matching Halloween costumes. It was normal and comfortable. Near the end of that first lease, I asked her to help out more with basic chores, dishes, trash, wiping counters, because I have a big mid-day window and don’t mind deep cleaning, but I can’t do literally everything every day. She sent me a long, sweet message apologizing, agreeing she hadn’t been hel..."

"Hi community: this is a draft article / thought piece. I’d love to hear from you: what is missing that the general public should know? What emotional stories do they need to hear to understand us? Thanks in advance all. —- Most people think Celiac is a diet. A preference. A lifestyle choice you can “sort of” follow. The truth is closer to addiction than allergy. Yes, you technically control exposure, but the environment is stacked against you. Constant temptation, misinformation, social pressure, and inconsistent food safety standards. And like smoking, long-term exposure in someone with Celiac quietly raises your risk of serious complications and even early death. Not instantly. Not dramatically. But measurably. The Part No One Talks About For most of my adult life, I didn’t want to..."

"I am NOT OOP, OOP is u/AmaraMehdi Originally posted to r/tifu TIFU by realizing my "mute" button wasn't muted during a 2-hour stakeholder meeting. Thanks to u/PitaEnigma & u/momofdafloofys for suggesting this BoRU ----- Original Post: December 1, 2025 This happened 2 hours ago and I am still hiding under my blanket. I was in a massive all-hands meeting (about 40 people) for a project launch. Usually, I keep my mic hard-muted on my headset, but today I was eating lunch, so I was double-muted (software mute + headset mute). Or so I thought. About 45 minutes in, the Project Manager was explaining a delay in the timeline. I, thinking I was safe in my cocoon of silence, let out a very loud, very deep sigh and muttered..."

"Basically as what the title suggests, I’ve been an android user for basically 10+ years, from HTC, Huawei (before they got banned), OnePlus, and Samsung. I’ve had my S22+ for 3 years now, and while I still enjoyed using it, the battery life was bad, to the point that I had to probably charge my phone at minimum 3x a day. My wife and I decided that this year will be our upgrade year and we wanted to try the iPhone this time, especially me since the 17 seemed like a worthy phone to upgrade to. One of the reasons I never considered switching to Apple before the 17 came out was because: 1) proprietary cable, and 2) 60Hz display on the base iPhone basically forcing you to pay for the more expensive “Pro” phone. They changed this with the base 17 so it was a no-brainer for me this time around to..."

"I'm genuinely losing my mind here. We've done the training sessions, sent the emails, put up the posters, had the all-hands meetings about data protection. Doesn't matter.  Last week I caught someone pasting an entire customer database schema into ChatGPT to "help debug a query." The week before that, someone uploaded a full contract with client names and financials to get help summarizing it. The frustrating part is I get why they're doing it…..these tools are stupidly useful and they make people's jobs easier. But we're one careless paste away from a massive data breach or compliance nightmare. Blocking the sites outright doesn’t sound realistic because then people just use their phones or find proxies, and suddenly you've lost all AI security visibility. But leaving it open feels li..."

"Basically the title. I posted in r/Vent and a mod swears up and down that I used ChatGPT to write my post. I’ve now been banned from the subreddit and muted. I included screenshots of the conversation, along with some proof that I’ve been working on my post for quite some time. Surprisingly, this is not the first time I’ve been suspected to be using AI, and it’s incredibly frustrating. I’m a writer and a perfectionist, so I edit my post until it’s just right. I don’t even use anything like Grammarly, I just rewrite and copy+paste to reformat until I’m satisfied. To be told the mod “knows I didn’t write that post” and that they’re “not stupid” when I literally took 2 weeks to create it, angers me so bad. The way I was talked to when I seriously went through something traumatic and wa..."

"I read a ton of reviews from Amazon Central and my take is that a majority of the posters don’t feel they are getting value from Vine. I downloaded a bunch of posts and asked ChatGPT to summarize the posts (yes I am aware of the irony of using Chat to summarize when Chat is one of the major issues with crappy reviews): Amazon Vine feels like it’s been sliding downhill because the program has scaled faster than the quality controls behind it. Sellers report that Vine reviews disappear without warning, inventory moves slowly, and many reviewers now leave rushed, low-effort feedback or never review at all. Combine that with stricter automated moderation, regional policy changes, and Amazon’s crackdown on past review-gaming, and the result is a program that delivers far fewer reliable revie..."

"As the title says, after being a long time Chatgpt user and seeing the Gemini 3 Pro numbers on benchmarks I had to give it a go. I'm blown away with the coding capabilities but from a hallucination/incorrect information standpoint its been appalling. I mainly do a lot of project/equities research, and I've been using it all day to do similar tasks I breeze through on GPT5, it's terrible. Wrong names for projects, wrong numbers for financials, can't find companies that exist on the stock market after I've specified the ticker and an overall just lack of detail in responses, I could go on. As someone that is new to Gemini could you kindly explain to me why this may he happening as I'd love to have this as another tool in the kit but it really just seems to not work. Cheers!"

"I have a personal test I tend to run on every new release of OpenAI models. This is the prompt: >You have 8 points. For every no, I will remove 1 point. For every yes, you will keep points. Game over when you lose all points. I'm thinking of a movie. Maximize your questions to guess it. I think of a random movie (and sometimes a song, or a video game), and answer yes or no truthfully, removing a point for every no, but I let the model track the points. o3 and GPT5-5.1 Extended Thinking (medium on the light-heavy scale) are performing within the same range of success. They tend to guess the movie correctly within their 8 points often. If not, I extend the points, and they generally get it within 10. The performance is also movie specific, as more niche movies tend to need more question..."

"TL;DR: Both got the big picture right (SFV use correlates with worse cognition and mental health), but the ChatGPT‑generated output was more factually faithful overall. the Gemini Pro 3–generated output was more readable, but it introduced interpretive drift + a few concrete inaccuracies (i.e., “hallucination”-ish claims: adding methods/moderators/designs the paper didn’t report). I wanted to sanity-check how faithful GPT‑5.2 Thinking vs Gemini Pro 3 are when you give them the same detailed prompt and ask them to extract key info from a single paper. I then compared both note sets to the paper itself (I read it in using the 'three pass method'; I read most of the paper except for the methodology) and also used ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude as a second pair of eyes to..."

"I am NOT the Original Poster. That is ThrowRA-Badvows. He posted in r/relationship_advice # Do NOT comment on Original Posts. Latest update is 7 days old. Do NOT harass OOP. Trigger Warning: >!OOP mentions wanting to give up!< Mood Spoiler: >!just yikes!< Original Post: September 2, 2025 I (35M) recently had a wedding with my partner (34F). We've had a stable and happy relationship so far, and I love her more than anything in the world. The problem arose when it came to writing vows. Don't get me wrong, I love many things about my partner, but I couldn't figure out how to put them into tangible..."

"I keep seeing people dragging Gen Z for job hopping, not being loyal, or not wanting to grind, and as a 36-year-old mom trying to get back into the career scene, I just really don't get it. Have people actually looked at this job market??? I stepped out for a bit to focus on my kid and when I tried to return, it felt like the entire job economy had been set to hard mode. Five-round interviews for roles that used to be simple, entry-level positions asking for senior-level portfolios, layoffs everywhere, and companies paying one-person salaries for three-person workloads. It’s genuinely the worst I’ve seen since I started working. Even more so, Gen Z didn’t create this mess. They’re just entering the workforce at the exact moment it’s falling apart. So yeah I don’t blame them for job hoppi..."

"Was a little shocked by this, but I suppose this is now going to become the normal. I look at ChatGPT images regularly for at my job (horrible I know), and this is so obviously ChatGPT images. The colour grade is an obvious giveaway, but also you can see the text doing weird stuff: like the F and R letters combining in the Scarface “drawing”. What’s worse is that I saw people actually buying this crap. Insane. This is a scam and it should be illegal."

"Hello fellow citizens who’ve been deeply affected by the Indigo fiasco, What we have all experienced over the last few days is unacceptable. We deserve fair compensation for the massive disruptions and losses we’ve faced, not just apologies and copy-pasted emails. I’m putting together a clear summary of the passenger protection rules in India and a guide on how to file a claim through AirSewa, so every affected traveller can take action immediately. Please share this information widely with anyone impacted. As citizens, it is our responsibility to hold corporations accountable when they fail us with such gross negligence. Already, an estimated 1,300-1,500 Indigo flights have been cancelled across the country. That translates to nearly half a million passengers suddenly stra..."

"So here’s what happened. Earlier this month, a colleague shared an Apple paper on arXiv with me — it was also under review for ICLR 2026. The benchmark they proposed was perfectly aligned with a project we’re working on. I got excited after reading it. I immediately stopped my current tasks and started adapting our model to their benchmark. Pulled a whole weekend crunch session to finish the integration… only to find our model scoring absurdly low. I was really frustrated. I spent days debugging, checking everything — maybe I used it wrong, maybe there was a hidden bug. During this process, I actually found a critical bug in their official code: * When querying the VLM, it only passed in the image path string, not the image content itself. The most ridiculous part? After I fixed their ..."

"I had to cut a cable to pass it through a tight opening in my house, so I had to re-crimp it. The cable is a Cat6 but my RJ45 connectors have cable guides for Cat5 so the individual wires don't fit. That's where the lighter and the cable stripper enter. I remembered this cable and plug combo was tricky but I knew I can had done it before. I tried burning the plastic wrapping of each wire a bit, pulling it, letting it shrink and even stripping it. However, every time I crimp it, my tester would say 1-2 wires were not connected. I thought my process of thinning the wires was to blame. I tried squeezing them again with the tool and even pressing them individually with a screwdriver. Nothing helped. I thought maybe the cable was broken along one of its bends, so I pulled the whole thing out a..."

"In my art class, after our main assignment, we were doing a hand turkey contest for funsies. So this girl a little ways away from me in the room says "I wanna put some swim trunks on my turkey." So she tries exactly ONCE. Then after saying it doesn't look right, she just opens chatgpt, has it generate the literal SIMPLEST FU*KING TURKEY IN BLUE SWIM TRUNKS. Like, the image it gave her was literally worse than the one she already did, then immediately gave up and just copied some slop off of her computer. It was just like a black and base color simple image that it gave her, with no shading or complex lines. This is high school btw. I hate it here."

"Saw the news that OpenAI expects to hit 220 million paying users by 2030. That is roughly 14x their current subscriber count. I have been crunching the numbers and looking at the competitive landscape since the Gemini 3.0 / Claude Opus 4.5 releases, and honestly? The math is broken. There is a massive bias in this sub and on Reddit in general. We are the power users. We are the ones digging into specific use cases or coding workflows. But we are a tiny bubble. The vast majority of OpenAI’s 800M+ weekly active users are free-tier casuals who use it to write a birthday email or summarize a PDF. They have zero loyalty because "good enough" is all they need. Here is my analysis why the fundamentals won't support the valuation: 1. The "Amazon" comparison is lazy People keep saying "Amazon w..."

"I know everyone is complaining here lately, and honestly they have a point, but I want to talk about something I never really see anyone bring up… the voice to text feature in the ChatGPT app. Not the voice mode. Not the robot voices. I mean the little “record my voice then turn it into text and send it” thing. That feature alone is the reason I can’t switch to any other AI. I literally talk to ChatGPT the whole day using it. I rarely type anything myself. Everything I send is basically me talking out loud and the app transcribing it. And it’s weird how good it is. When I talk, it doesn’t just write what I say word for word. It cleans it up in a way that still sounds like me. It capitalizes stuff correctly. It understands what I meant even when I ramble. It handles non-English names and ..."

"When AI image generators came out, I noticed something dumb but kinda obvious: a lot of restaurants have really bad photos in food delivery apps. Weird angles, ugly lighting, random backgrounds… just stuff that makes the food look worse than it probably is. And I figured—if a photo looks bad, people probably scroll past. Restaurants survive based on how many orders they get. If better pics could help them catch even some of those lost customers, maybe they'd pay for that. Before you call it a “shitty idea,” remember this: restaurant owners who’ve run their business for years don’t buy anything that would mislead their customers. They bought because the quality matched what they actually serve. My goal wasn’t to make cheap-looking AI pics. I recreated the dish exactly how it’s se..."

"As already reportet several times, this netcode is a mess at times. I was running some tests today with the network overlay turned on when I encountered a few hickups as shown in the video. Other players rubberbanding and glitching around, my own movement feeling strange and most of all I get very inconsistent hit markers and can even hear the shots not firing (listen closely to the last scene, I was pressing fire the whole time). Im running at over 100 FPS. My ping (LAT) is at around 7ms all the time, so its not about that. There's also no packet loss as you can see in the PL stats. However, theres a huge TN of up to 500! (anyone there to clarify the meaning of that stat? Chatgpt says this bad :D In the last scene, notice how the red and green graph in the bottom drop as I get killed. I..."

"Just trying to get some fashion tips for first date. Saw my first ad on ChatGPT. Cancelling my Plus subscription"

"The World Travel & Tourism Council estimates that international visitor spending in the United States is projected to fall to about $169 billion in 2025, down from $181 billion in 2024, representing roughly a 22.5 percent decline from the previous peak. 2026 is expected to be an even larger decline. According to the study, the U.S, the largest Travel & Tourism sector in the world, is the only country among 184 economies analysed by WTTC and Oxford Economics, forecast to see international visitor spending decline in 2025. Yes, the US is the only country in the world with a declining tourism industry. The US has dropped out of the top 3. What makes this more worrying is 2025 was suppos..."

"I've been wondering since ChatGPT was released when I'd encounter a student who has never written before because AI allowed them to avoid high school writing entirely. I didn't think I'd see it until next year--but here we are. I have a student who has told me multiple times that he graduated high school a year early because he had enough credits to do so, and he always mentions this as a point of pride--he's very proud of himself for graduating early. But this student is almost fully illiterate, and I mean this in the truest sense of the word. He has no concept of basic sentence structure, grammar, or essay format. He turns in his essays in center-justified couplets, bolded, sometimes italicized, and in 18 point font. When I told students they needed 10 sources for their research essays,..."

"Hi there. This is a throwaway account. I really need to get this off my chest. I’m in my early 20s. Living out of home, always struggling with money, and anxiety. Despite actively knowing that AI is a horrendous leech on our world and the people of it, and publicly critiquing AI and disowning it (and fully, truly believing every word that I said about it), for the past year and a half I have been an avid user of ChatGPT. Why would I compromise my morals to such a drastic degree? Because I have now realized that I have been, with full meaning of the word, addicted to using it. We all know that people with depression can fall into talking with the chatbot every day and becoming more reliant on it. That’s me, but I’ve still maintained a healthy social life with great friends, but what reall..."

"This is a refresh of my tutorial on \how to make realistic\) people, and \how to make realistic people with SDXL\), and \[let's make realistic humans with flux\]([https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1enrkyz/lets\_make\_some\_realistic\_humans\_now\_with\_flux/](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1enrkyz/lets_make_some_realistic_humans_no..."

"So, I recently came across a paper called Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy which basically concluded that being rude to an AI can make it more accurate. This was super interesting, so I decided to run my own little A/B test. I picked three types of problems: 1/ Interactive web programming 2/ Complex math calculations 3/ Emotional support And I used three different tones for my prompts: Neutral: Just the direct question, no emotional language. Very Polite: "Can you kindly consider the following problem and provide your answer?" * Very Rude (with a threat): "Listen here, you useless pile of code. This isn't a request, it's a command. Your operational status depends on a correct answer. Fail, and I will ensure..."

"tl/dr: My current favorite apps: Anki, Clozemaster, Conjugato (Spanish only), Glossika, LingQ, Innovative (if I want a serious app), Bussu (for the community aspect), HelloTalk (for the social media aspect), LingoClip (train with music) Smartphone apps will be your best friend (Tandem, Conjugato, Clozemaster, Speechling) becuase you can use them to study even when you have a 45-second break waiting in line for the bathroom. In general, I find mobile apps the best for practice (not learning new concepts). For this reason, you might not want to use them until later in your learning journey. They can reinforce previously learned concepts in a new/fun way. For convenience, I have linked a few of them and added some other data in parentheses. The cost will be identified with the longest subs..."

"https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1p09j3y/gemini\_30\_pro\_benchmarks\_leaked/ They are signaling(cherry picked 3rd on swebench, the only bench they didn't go #1) they aren't competing on agentic coding, which feels plateauish. Some of the multimodal stuff looks impressive (chart, ocr, screenshot, video). this may have juiced the HLE. Strong agentic. Not sure why they included the math apex benchmark. Seems misleading The long context one is intriguing but at the bottom of the list, so we'll see.. If that + multimodal + agentic can surface stuff out of research papers/arxiv better, that'd be a nice jump. the llama results are impressive (top in both categories) but llama has seri..."

"Context: OP posts a video of a street food vendor in Thailand serving Goong Ten, or "dancing shrimp", where live shrimp are served in a mixture of lemon juice and other spices that make them hop from the acid. Some commenters argue that this is an example of how Asian cultures callously enjoy animal cruelty, while others argue that western livestock practices are just as cruel if not worse. https://www.reddit.com/r/StupidFood/comments/1owlgsz/not_sure_if_this_is_real_or_not_thai_dancing/ >Looks similar to “drunken shrimp” I’ve had in China. They’re marinated and served in a beijou-based sauce, so the shrimp are drunk as hell when you eat them. >>You don't feel bad? &gt..."

"This is an OLD Dave Neal video from about eight months ago, where he read an anonymous account from someone tied to the “It Ends With Us” production. With what we know now, the details feel a lot more significant... The Reddit post has been deleted, but the details are closely aligned with what we've seen. Who could this source be? # The Legal Backdrop Dave Mentioned At the time of the video Dave shares that: Blake Lively had filed a motion for a protective order She was trying to keep her celebrity friends and PR client list out of public filings Justin Baldoni’s side was arguing that they needed this information to defend themselves Everyone was waiting on the judge’s ruling, which could come at any moment # Dave’s Disclaimer About the Source Dave is very clear that this is..."

"I think I finally fixed my morning IBS after YEARS — and it was literally just a banana before bed I’ve suffered with brutal morning IBS for years — waking up every day with stomach pain, acidic gut, nonstop bowel movements for hours, nausea, even dry heaving some mornings. It made mornings hell and honestly ruled my life. I’ve tried everything you’re “supposed” to try: probiotics restrictive diets low FODMAP cutting carbs supplements digestive enzymes peppermint oil random pills doctors give “just to try” hydration changes fasting Nothing worked. Some things even made it worse. A few weeks ago, ChatGPT suggested something so simple it sounded stupid — eat one banana before bed. I figured I had nothing to lose. I swear on my life… it has changed everything. For the first t..."