ChatGPT
ChatGPT and Sora go down in major global "elevated error rate" outage
Outage forces people around the world to use their actual brains for cognitive work rather than GenAI.
OpenAI
OpenAI
OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online
New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.
AI Safety
OpenAI lets Codex loose on the internet, gets honest about dangers and "complex tradeoffs"
Just after the coding agent was given access to the web for the first time, a weird and probably totally unconnected outage hit X.
OpenAI
OpenAI developers demand NSFW "over-19" ChatGPT mode for adult users
Warning: Graphic and potentially upsetting content.
OpenAI
OpenAI reveals how it stops Codex hacking, slacking off and selling drugs
The new coding agent could be used to do some very bad things, so has been locked down and sandboxed to prevent it from going rogue.
AI
The etiquette of ChatGPT: Should you say please and thank you to AI?
It used to cost nothing to be polite - but that's certainly no longer the case in the age of GenAI.
ChatGPT
OpenAI exec hints at the hyper-annoying future of ChatGPT
If you think the sycophantic GPT-4o update that sparked GlazeGate is bad, wait until you hear how the proactive GenAI models of tomorrow might behave...
ChatGPT
OpenAI bins "sycophantic" ChatGPT update after "Glazegate" backlash
Sam Altman admits that GPT-4o has been sucking up to its users too intensely and takes urgent action to make it a bit less icky.
Elon Musk
Does Elon Musk want to become an "AGI dictator"?
OpenAI makes wild claims about its billionaire arch-rival as the battle to control superintelligence goes nuclear.
ChatGPT
OpenAI vows to protect sensitive celebrities from ChatGPT image generation feature
Now we'll be able to tell exactly which public figures do not want to let AI draw a caricature of their famous features...
X-Risk
OpenAI: Humans risk losing control of lying, cheating and power-crazed AI models
ChatGPT-maker warns of nightmare scenario of "superhuman" AGI going rogue as creators struggle to control its behaviour.
ChatGPT
MAN VS MACHINE: Can ChatGPT cope with Sam Altman's existential crisis?
A human journalist and OpenAI's latest model go head-to-head to share their takes on Altman's public freak out.