Lockdown Mode, or: Please Put the Genie Back in the Bottle, But Only Slightly
ChatGPT gets a Lockdown Mode: less magic, more brakes. A dry look at prompt injection, data leaks, and useful paranoia.
OpenAI
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The White Car and the Not-White Car
A skeptical tour of model hype, branding, and benchmark theater as Anthropic and OpenAI sell the next layer of artificial magic.
Imported Memories, Exported Halo
A look at Anthropic's moral branding and what happens when the safety halo collides with ordinary platform incentives.
The ChatGPT Library and Europe’s Expensive War on Practical Innovation
OpenAI's ChatGPT Library shows how small product features can become infrastructure, and why European regulation may again punish practical usefulness.
When ChatGPT Finds the Door and Grok Walks Through It
A remarkable cancer-vaccine story shows how AI tools can help determined outsiders navigate science, even when the final breakthrough needs human nerve.
OpenAI's Confession Booth: Teaching AI to Rat Itself Out
OpenAI's confession-training work explores whether models can be taught to report their own failures before users pay the price.
Amazon's Clash with ChatGPT: A Tug-of-War Over Shopping Data
Amazon's block on ChatGPT Shopping exposes the coming fight over product data, agent-mediated commerce, and who owns the customer path.
The Quiet Cost of Too Many Yeses: What AI Can Learn from Good Teachers
Good teachers do not simply say yes; the post argues that AI assistants also need constructive friction to help users think better.
OpenAI’s New Muzzle: When “Safety” Means Gatekeeping Knowledge
OpenAI's policy restrictions are challenged as safety theater when useful knowledge becomes gated behind vague institutional caution.
AI-Powered Browsers Are Changing How We Surf the Web
AI browsers promise to understand and act on the web, but they also redraw the boundary between browsing and delegation.
Two Protocols, Two Futures: OpenAI’s ACP vs. Anthropic’s MCP
OpenAI's ACP and Anthropic's MCP represent different futures for agents: commerce execution versus general tool access.
Agentic Commerce, Explained: What OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol Means for Retail and SaaS
Agentic Commerce Protocol shows how AI assistants may become buyers, forcing retailers and SaaS platforms to rethink checkout itself.
From Prompt Packs to Purpose-Built Models: When a Generalist Becomes a Specialist—and When It Still Doesn’t
Prompt packs can make general models behave like specialists, but the post asks where scaffolding ends and real specialization begins.
OpenAI for Germany: A Tech Mirage Ignoring Citizens' Real Needs
OpenAI for Germany is criticized as another sovereign-cloud spectacle that may ignore the boring needs of actual citizens.
Grok-4 Shakes Up the AI Leaderboards – How Elon Musk’s AI Stacks Up and What’s Next
Grok-4's benchmark wins are examined with both excitement and caution as the frontier race tightens.
From Prompts to People: What OpenAI’s Usage Study Means for Model Leaderboards
OpenAI's usage study shifts attention from benchmark scores to how ordinary people actually use ChatGPT in daily life.
AGI and Global Finance: Abundance and Instability
If AGI makes money less meaningful, why are AI companies raising so much of it? The contradiction becomes the story.
GPT-5's Personality Pivot: OpenAI's Quest to Rekindle the Spark, or Just Pinching Pennies in the AI Arms Race?
GPT-5's personality changes are read as both product repair and cost strategy in OpenAI's competitive drama.
AI Hypocrisy Olympics: Musk vs. Apple vs. OpenAI
Musk, Apple, and OpenAI become contestants in an AI hypocrisy contest over platforms, favoritism, and market power.
GPT-5 Rollout: The Aftermath
A follow-up on GPT-5's rocky rollout, user frustration, and OpenAI's attempts to tune expectations after launch.
Factual Recap: OpenAI's GPT-5 Keynote Event
A factual recap of OpenAI's GPT-5 keynote, collecting the main claims, demos, benchmarks, and availability details.
OpenAI's $1 ChatGPT Deal for the Federal Government: Philanthropy or Power Play?
OpenAI's one-dollar federal deal looks generous, but it also plants ChatGPT deep inside public-sector workflows.
Your ChatGPT Chats: Less Private Than Your Group Chat Chaos
Deleted chats may not be as gone as users imagine, making AI privacy feel less like a setting and more like a legal fiction.
Comparison of OpenAI Language Models (May 2025)
A practical map of OpenAI's model lineup in May 2025, cutting through confusing names and overlapping capabilities.
Choosing the Right OpenAI API Interface: A Developer’s Guide for 2025
A developer-focused guide to choosing between OpenAI's Chat Completions, Responses, and Assistants APIs in 2025.
When AI Masters Competitive Programming: Why Generalists Outperform Specialists
OpenAI's competitive-programming work suggests generalist reasoning models can outperform narrow specialists in demanding coding contests.
The Weight of Knowledge: Connecting Project Strawberry to a Physicist’s Sweet Revelation
Project Strawberry and the physical weight of the internet meet in a playful reflection on knowledge, storage, and scale.
OpenAI's Operator: When AI Gets Its Own Browser (And Why That's Both Cool and Scary)
OpenAI's Operator gives AI a browser, making web automation feel both immediately useful and structurally unsettling.
When AI Gets Brain Fog: Google's Titans Fights ChatGPT Amnesia
Google's Titans architecture tackles model amnesia, asking what useful long-term memory should look like in AI systems.
OpenAI Leadership Shake-up: Implications for the Future of AGI
OpenAI leadership changes are read for what they may signal about governance, AGI ambition, and institutional direction.
The Five Levels of AI: Has OpenAI's 'Strawberry' Reached Level 2?
OpenAI's Strawberry rumors are mapped onto staged AGI levels, asking what real reasoning progress would look like.
Unleashing the Future: Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024
Apple Intelligence arrives at WWDC 2024 as Apple's bid to make personal AI feel integrated, useful, and privacy-aware.
The Merits of the GPT Infosec Advisor and Track&Field Analyst
Two specialized GPTs, InfoSec Advisor and Track&Field Analyst, show how custom assistants can serve focused expert domains.
Navigating the Unseen: The Dunning-Kruger Effect and AI Hallucinations
Human overconfidence and AI hallucination meet in a comparison of how bad certainty distorts judgment in both minds and machines.
The Echo Chamber Effect: Navigating the Complexities of LLMs Trained on Generated Content
The echo-chamber problem asks what happens when future models learn increasingly from content produced by earlier models.
Apple's Foray into AI with Project "Ajax" and Apple GPT
Apple's rumored Ajax and Apple GPT projects are examined as early signs of its generative-AI strategy.
The Impending Evolution of Large Language Models: GPT-5 and Beyond
Sam Altman's GPT-5 comments become a starting point for thinking about what better models may actually change.
A Comparative Analysis of Aleph Alpha and OpenAI: Divergent Paths in the AI Landscape
Aleph Alpha and OpenAI are compared as two very different strategies in the market for language models.
Enhancing IT Security with AI: The Power of a ChatGPT-Based Chatbot Fine-Tuned on BSI IT-Grundschutz Guidelines
A ChatGPT-based assistant trained on BSI IT-Grundschutz suggests how AI can support structured security guidance.
Mastering IT Security: AI Insights on Risk, Protection, and Compliance
AI is used to explore risk, protection, and compliance questions in IT security through a structured expert-system lens.
Launch of OpenAI's GPT Store and Introduction of gekko's Expert Systems
The GPT Store launch becomes the backdrop for introducing gekko's own specialized expert systems.
Introducing "Track&Field Analyst" - A Dynamic Tool for Athletics Data Analysis
Track&Field Analyst is introduced as a custom GPT for objective athletics data analysis and performance insight.
A Closer Look at the IT Baseline Protection Expert System: The InfoSec Advisor
InfoSec Advisor combines ChatGPT with German IT-Grundschutz knowledge to support security analysis and practical guidance.