ChatGPT 5 Faces Wall of Criticism!
August 13, 202501:18:26

ChatGPT 5 Faces Wall of Criticism!

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down the troubled GPT-5 launch, including Sam Altman’s reversal of the model routing feature, Perplexity’s $34.5B offer for Chrome, and Truth Social’s new AI search engine powered by Perplexity.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Podcast begins

0:01:22 - ⁠OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know⁠

0:09:52 - ⁠Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’⁠

0:25:31 - ⁠Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome⁠

0:31:07 - ⁠Trump's Truth Social is getting its own AI search engine — powered by Perplexity⁠

0:42:13 - ⁠Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.⁠

0:47:25 - ⁠Jeff has things to say about Kashmir's latest⁠

0:47:54 - ⁠Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search⁠

0:53:30 - Jeff's Arxiv-Mania!

⁠1 A taxonomy of hallucinations⁠

⁠2 Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons⁠

⁠Related: Reddit will block the Internet Archive⁠

⁠3 AI: "We don't need you stinkin' humans." We can train ourselves and reach AGI without you. A paper. ⁠

1:02:04 - ⁠Meta’s Superintelligence AI SWAT Team Is Now Called TBD Lab⁠

1:03:34 - ⁠Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta⁠

1:05:17 - ⁠Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot Launches in Beta on PC⁠

1:08:21 - ⁠The Browser Company launches a $20 monthly subscription for its AI-powered browser⁠

1:10:22 - ⁠OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT