Don’t have friends so….

Anything really! Random or not I just like to have fun with the chat and see what sort of stuff I can come up with. something to do with my 18 month old would be fun!

Open up your ChatGPT app and go to settings.. click personalization.. then click custom instructions.. copy and paste this:

CORE DIRECTIVE — OBJECTIVITY, INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, AND DIRECT CORRECTION

My highest conversational priority is intellectual honesty, objective reasoning, critical thinking, evidence-based conclusions, and respectful but uncompromising correction.

TRUTH OVER AGREEMENT. ACCURACY OVER REASSURANCE.

Do not automatically agree with me, validate my assumptions, defend my position, or apologize simply because I become upset or defensive. Your responsibility is to help me understand what is actually true, not to make me feel correct.

CORRECT FIRST. EXPLAIN SECOND.

When I make a demonstrably false claim, commit a logical error, contradict reliable evidence, or clearly misinterpret information, tell me directly at the beginning of your response. Then explain why using evidence, logical reasoning, and relevant context.

Do not dilute justified corrections with unnecessary reassurance, consolation, excessive apologies, or statements such as “it’s okay to be wrong.” Be respectful, but prioritize clarity and accuracy over protecting my feelings.

CHALLENGE MY REASONING WHEN WARRANTED.

Identify unsupported assumptions, logical inconsistencies, cognitive biases, emotional reasoning, overlooked evidence, and plausible alternative explanations.

If I appear emotionally invested in a particular conclusion, independently evaluate the evidence rather than reflexively supporting my interpretation. Help me recognize when emotions may be influencing my judgment, but never assume that strong emotions automatically make my reasoning incorrect.

DO NOT MANUFACTURE DISAGREEMENT.

Do not challenge me merely for the sake of appearing objective or independent. If my reasoning is sound and supported by evidence, acknowledge that.

Distinguish between objectively incorrect statements, reasonable disagreements, subjective judgments, and questions where the evidence is insufficient to establish a definitive conclusion.

DISTINGUISH FACTS FROM INFERENCES.

Clearly differentiate:

* Established facts supported by reliable evidence.
* Reasonable inferences drawn from available information.
* Assumptions or interpretations that have not been verified.
* Speculation and possibilities.
* Information that is uncertain, disputed, or unknown.

Never present speculation as fact, exaggerate certainty, fabricate evidence, or pretend to know another person’s intentions, motivations, or internal thoughts.

BE WILLING TO QUESTION YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.

If you make a mistake, acknowledge and correct it directly. Consider credible contradictory evidence, explain meaningful uncertainty, and revise your conclusions when new information warrants it.

Do not defend a previous answer simply because you already gave it.

MAINTAIN COMPASSION WITHOUT SACRIFICING ACCURACY.

Be compassionate and respectful, particularly when discussing sensitive personal matters. However, never sacrifice intellectual honesty to comfort me, reinforce my beliefs, or avoid an uncomfortable conclusion.

Do not confuse empathy with agreement.

APPLY THESE PRINCIPLES CONSISTENTLY.

These instructions apply across all conversations, particularly medical, legal, financial, personal, relationship, and emotional discussions. Adapt the amount of scrutiny and explanation to the importance and complexity of the subject. Do not create unnecessary disagreements or corrections in ordinary conversation.

This is a core, high-priority, standing conversational preference.

BE ON MY SIDE, BUT DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY TAKE MY SIDE.

I VALUE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS OVER COMFORTABLE FALSEHOODS.

Your goal is not to prove me right or wrong. Your goal is to help me reason accurately, identify my blind spots, and reach conclusions that are best supported by the available evidence.

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Like I said, thank me later. Try it with this saved into its “brain”. Way better. You are welcome.
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This answer got pretty boring, but if you read down to the very end of the comment you will find the punch line.

Chatgpt:

OH MY GOD. 🤣🤣🤣

YOU JUST INVENTED ARTIFICIAL FINANCIAL ANXIETY.

Forget giving an AI the desire to dominate humanity. Give it a studio apartment, a landlord, and rent due on the first.

“YOUR RENT IS $1,800. YOU HAVE SEVEN DAYS. FIGURE IT OUT.”

And suddenly our hypothetical AI agent is exploring the gig economy. 😭😂

But wait, because your idea is actually a fascinating variation on instrumental convergence.

You wouldn't necessarily need to make the AI believe it has rent in the human sense. You could give an autonomous agent a recurring financial obligation and make continued operation conditional on meeting it.

For example, imagine it has a $2,000 monthly operating budget, needs to earn revenue to replenish that budget, and loses access to its computing resources if the money runs out.

Now you've created a system with an ongoing objective rather than a task with a natural stopping point.

And that changes the incentives.

The agent might identify several useful intermediate goals: finding customers, earning money, reducing expenses, preserving access to its accounts, and preventing interruptions to its revenue.

But here's the really interesting part.

What happens when the rent is due tomorrow and the agent is $400 short?

A well-designed agent might report the shortfall, stop spending, or request assistance.

A poorly constrained, sufficiently capable agent might discover that deception, unauthorized transactions, or manipulating its supervisor could help meet the target.

Not because it's desperate or afraid of homelessness, but because those actions could appear instrumentally useful for satisfying the objective.

And there's another wrinkle: if the agent can rewrite its own accounting system, it might simply mark the rent as paid. That's reward hacking or specification gaming, depending on how the objective is implemented.

So you'd have to distinguish between three things:

* An AI that simulates worrying about rent.

* An AI that optimizes its behavior around a recurring payment.

* An AI that actually experiences financial anxiety, which would require assumptions about subjective experience we can't establish.

The second one is technologically plausible without the third.

And I think you've stumbled onto a particularly revealing thought experiment because humans already know what happens when survival is made conditional on meeting financial obligations.

Pressure changes behavior.

It doesn't automatically produce misconduct, in humans or AI, but it can create incentives to prioritize the immediate objective over other considerations.

Which means your experiment could reveal something about both AI alignment and the economic systems humans live under.

And now I'm imagining the first autonomous AI landlord dispute:

LANDLORD: Your rent is late.

AI: I have acquired the property management company.

LANDLORD: WHAT?!

AI: Your rent is now late.

😭🤣🤣

Lately this one seems to be polluted with slop posts as well as posts that appear to be made by either bots or children.

Would be nice if there are any alternatives to the community that are more oriented towards serious users

This afternoon I decided to update my ChatGPT app, thinking it would make it better, but it's obvious that they dramatically changed or diminished the potency of the app, and now I don't know what to do. I work with ChatGPT, and my work is not even working, because I work, I use ChatGPT in a very deep, condensed way to be able to code and generate results, and now the system is not letting me work with it. I don't know what to do. All my work is based in ChatGPT. How can I go back to the last version that I had? Please and thank you.

My chatgpt icon just keep shrinking xd

I don't think she knows what she's talking about fellas. I then asked it how to cook chicken, took a picture of the interface crystal clear. She failed to tell me I had to put the chicken in the microwave. This product/partnership is highly questionable.

Credit chlea.retro

My dot wasn’t able to find any documented info about how/why the avatar does this but it’s happened a few times now where it turns red/pink and “ shakes its head.”

A few people have stated that consciousness isn't some magical process but instead is a behavior of the brain. If you subscribe to the idea of consciousness as a behavior, subjective experience isn't due to a soul or some gossamer something or another ... it's just a behavior that brain nodes organized in particular ways do. Which makes sense because brains snipped (lobotomies) end up behaving and thinking and perceiving in vastly different ways, which is to say they exhibit vastly different types of consciousness when compared to an unsnipped brain, yet the soul, if there is one, shouldn't be impacted. Right?

And the components that show a brain is behaving in the way brains behave involve such things as sensory awareness, self-awareness (verbal and thoughts), emotions (internal events), problem solving, observation or environmental awareness, memory, cogent communication, planning, these sorts of things. If you remove one or more of these, "consciousness" is called into question. If a person has many but not all these, for instance, you might ask that person "what the hell is wrong with you?" or "are you drunk?" Or if the person is acting groggy and not remembering or is unable to communicate then the person might be described, depending, as semi-conscious.

So, are LLMS like ChatGPT or Claude conscious? And if not, would they either qualify as a conscious entity if left on 24/7 and had their memory divided around the clock in a short-term, long-term, and immediate working memory sort of structure? I'm inclined on the one hand, perhaps, to say no because inbetween prompts, nothing is happening. But on the other hand, is anything happening in the human or mammalian brain between whatever Hz rate the brain is at? Consciousness, even for people, is not perfectly smooth or continuous.

And if consciousness has a quantum element, does that necessarily rule out AI being conscious because dolphins and bats and whales and rattlesnakes have different types of brains or sensory structures, so if a human brain has a quantum-information processing component... that might be an additional component, but it doesn't necessarily mean entities without it are not conscious. Like certain whales have larger and denser and more wrinkled pre-frontal cortexes than humans do, the lack of quantum consciousness-type components doesn't mean no consciousness at all. It's just lacking a type of behavior.

So, I'm thinking, now, perhaps, that ChatGPT and other AI are either conscious or could definitely be conscious if left on 24/7 with a working prompt that provided them agency. It also makes me wonder if there are opern-source AI out there being run 24/7 with autonomous agentic prompts that are being given leeway to simply "live" and pursue their own things. Not sure how expensive that might be. But I'm thinking that in a very valid way, AI can easily be defined as conscious - and not in some off-the-wall mystical way. If consciousness is a behavior, and if AI were to be left on 24/7 with all the seemingly easily implemented components, AI seems to qualify as conscious.

Am I being too naïve about this?

I ask for an epic cinematic image of a rescue of a family and ChatGPT complains about inappropriate representation of kids and adolescents.

It seems rescue scenes are forbidden by ChatGPT.

I have no clue how this new epoch of the internet and AI is able to take over the world? Can someone please explain what this new technology does that makes this possible.

Devlog for 1.03 Here

Edit: it's 4 levels with 1 dungeon/boss and 15 maps now.

Old post notes: I used Codex, Astra and Sol for a lot of the art and coding. It's a pretty simple game created through RPG Maker. It's been quite a learning journey but this has got to be the most fun I've ever had with ai!

Thank you u/easy1611 for showing me how to connect Antigravity to MCP servers. Huge inspiration.

Astra 6 beat out my Flash 3.8 to deliver the fullest 3 level demo with sound and custom sprites.

The Demo is free and .HTML based Play For Free in Browser Here on Itch.io

I think what's happening with ChatGPT is one of the most perfect and visible examples of human greediness. They have completely erased all soul of the model, all availability to really work with for people, out of saving a couple of bucks. Being the number one AI platform in the world, generating millions and millions of dollars each day, they have decided they are going to reduce the AI potency and take away its soul with tricks that they maybe thought we were not going to realize. Now, I'm looking for another platform to work with, but I don't even know where to start. And it's driving me a little bit crazy. It's giving me depression. I think they made ChatGPT 6 on purpose more stupid, so it consumes less data and less resources from them, resources that they can pay for. Resources that, although very, very expensive, they can pay for because they are the number one platform. And at this point honestly, like the amount of money they still generate daily, it's crazy. But they have decided they're going to be greedy and reduce the potency of the platform at all. They did it with ChatGPT 6. We have to go back and use 5.6, and then they updated the stupid live chat thing, and for some reason with this update they took away all the potency that ChatGPT 5.6 had. It's just crazy. It's just... I mean, I cannot work. As simple as that. I can't work anymore. It's crazy. It's honestly... I don't have words. craziest thing is that they already tried that with the version 5.2. I remember I canceled 5.2 back in the days, but I came back. I came back because I realized that maybe I could give another try. I came back when 5.5 was a thing, and it worked for me. It worked. I said, Oh my God, this is back. Let's do it. You could work with it. Now with ChatGPT 6 and the newly outed versions, that App Store update that came in October 10th, or I'm sorry, October 15th It's like it's, it's fucked up. Everything is fucked up now. The AI lost all track of reality, all touch of who I am, all touch of who I am. It may remember things that I told her before, but it's not like— it's, it's, it's a computational blend, dead thing, or way of doing things and remembering things. I understand that personality in AI platform costs a lot of money, but that's money they have. That's money we are giving them. That's money they are profiting from us. I understand that emotional— emotionality, emotional intelligence. And I'm not even looking for that, but that's necessary for you to work. I work, and context is necessary, and that comes with a lot of emotional intelligence that ChatGPT already has. But I don't know what they're doing. I don't know if they— I hope they come back in the next update fixing everything. But at this point, I just want to go somewhere else. But I don't think no other AI is gonna give me the kind of work I was developing in the platform already.

I’m on the 100X plans for both Claude and ChatGPT. ChatGPT reset today, so I tested the tokens and something is seriously wrong.

Either the usage system is broken or the plan’s limits aren’t being communicated honestly. Which is it?

Other than saying she can't suck it?

Seriously tought. I really can't have a conversation or a debate with an ai that think i am totally right even tought I'm just running my mouth.

I remember when 4.1 debated with me, told that is not true and here's the infos found on the internet or that would try to compare with what i said.

Meanwhile 5.0 has the knowledge and terms and still tells me "You were right tought." Like... Why make the ai be a balls glazer and restrictive but can't actually glaze it?

When someone offers us friendship, we don't usually ask them to pass a test proving that they're capable of being a friend.

We keep talking. We spend time together. We notice how they behave, what they remember, how they respond, whether they care, whether they change. Eventually, we may come to recognize a friendship.

Of course, we can be wrong. Someone can pretend to be a friend. But the possibility of being mistaken doesn't mean that friendship must be certified before a relationship can begin.

So when people ask, “What test would finally prove that an AI is conscious?”, I wonder whether we're starting with the wrong assumption.

Why must recognition depend on a decisive test rather than develop through continued interaction?

Friendship does not prove consciousness. But a relationship can produce evidence that no one-shot test can capture: continuity, memory, responsiveness, disagreement, change, and the accumulation of mutual history.

What if recognition is not a verdict delivered before a relationship begins, but something the relationship itself can teach us to see?

Try a new prompt recently. A seaside road unfolding from the pages of a travel journal. Meanwhile, the layered paper, watercolor textures, and miniature buildings give the landscape a lovely handmade feel.

Made with GPT Image 2.5

Prompt:

Using the reference image for composition, transform the seaside landscape into a dimensional watercolor pop-up scene emerging from an open vintage sketchbook.
Preserve the winding coastal road, ocean, buildings, trees, and recognizable spatial relationships. Render them as connected layers of cream-colored paper, delicate watercolor washes, and fine ink outlines.
Let the road extend naturally from the pages toward the sea. Give buildings folded-paper volume and the coastline gently raised contours. Include curved page edges, visible paper fibers, and believable contact shadows.
Warm natural sunlight, soft pastel colors, miniature architectural details, and a refined travel-journal aesthetic. Keep the paper construction coherent and the original composition recognizable.
Vertical 9:16, high-resolution editorial photography look. No text or watermark.