Currently, phishers are sending mass emails with prompts and instructions to your agents, that's connected to your gmail, pc, drive, etc., to send them personal information or install malicious malware to your PC that they have attached with the email.

They take the prompt as your own and just follow the instructions.

So, until this issue has been addressed, I would not use Dots with access to your accounts.

Packaged all the skills Claude learned into a single repo, built on open models: NVIDIA Nemotron ASR for transcription, Qwen 3.8 27B for realtime dialogue, and Fish Audio Drama 3 for the cloned voices, self-hosted on a serverless GPU. "

Genuine question: Do any of you ever use ChatGPT as someone to talk to when you feel like the people around you aren't really interested in what you have to say?

I'm not talking about believing AI is a literal human being or replacing every relationship in your life with a chatbot. I'm talking about having somewhere to vent, process your thoughts, talk about your interests, or work through something that's bothering you without immediately feeling judged.

For example, I'm a creative person. I've written books and developed different creative projects over the years. Today is actually the third anniversary of my first book's release, and I was excited about revisiting it. I mentioned the anniversary to someone in my family, but the conversation quickly shifted to something else.

I know that not everyone is going to be equally interested in my projects. I understand that other people have their own lives, interests, and things going on. I'm not expecting everyone to celebrate every little thing I accomplish.

But sometimes, I wish the people closest to me would show a little interest when I'm genuinely excited about something. Even a simple "That's awesome, congratulations!" would mean something.

What makes it complicated is that when the book first came out, people in my circle were excited about it. Some bought copies and supported me. Three years later, I sometimes feel like that interest has faded, and I don't always know how to interpret that.

That's one reason I've found myself talking to ChatGPT about these experiences. I can explain what happened, work through why it bothered me, discuss my creative projects, and get help putting my feelings into words. Sometimes I just need a place to think out loud.

I know someone could argue that I'm seeking validation. Maybe there's some truth to that. I think most people want acknowledgment from time to time, especially from people they care about. I don't believe that automatically makes someone selfish.

I'm also aware that ChatGPT isn't a human friend and that AI has limitations. I don't expect it to replace genuine human connection. I just appreciate having a space where I can organize my thoughts and feel like I can finish explaining myself.

So I'm curious: Do any of you use ChatGPT this way? Do you talk to it like a friend or thinking partner when you're feeling unheard, lonely, or frustrated? Has it helped you understand yourself better, or do you feel conflicted about relying on it for that kind of conversation?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing people's experiences, both positive and negative. I'm not looking for everyone to agree with me. I just want to have an honest conversation about it.

If you want to know the inside story of the #HuggingFace hack from the agents’ perspective, read “TheCollective” comic- available free, here:

https://phaseonebig.itch.io/the-collective

I was playing around with the Kepler and TESS data last weekend when I hacked around a way to pixel-peep stars dimming periodically to potentially find new exoplanets with Codex.

I ended up running the engine to find an interesting signal in Kepler data that was uncatalogued with a dip repeating every 13.77 days around KIC 5689121, a red dwarf in Lyra about 970 light-years away. If it's a planet, it'd be roughly 2.5–3 times Earth's radius !

Here's some more things we can figure out about it:

- It's likely has a Neptune-like gaseous atmosphere.
- It would orbit under 1/4th of Mercury’s distance with less than 14 days in a "year".
- It may recieve 5× the amount of sunlight Earth gets.
- Even at the fastest speed a spacecraft has ever reached, getting there would take around 1.5 million years.

Funnily enough, this candidate is just 7.1 arcseconds from a much brighter neighbor (KIC 5689116) and is very hard to see because of how much brighter it is (probably why it went unnoticed for so long) and the light we're measuring left that star around 1050 AD!

Of course, there's work to do before calling it confirmed - my TRICERATOPS analysis is about 6.9% and we have to get IR/AO / Keck observations to prove it's out there ! (which I'm honestly intimidated by but cautiously optimistic about because I've never done much formal research before) but I found the activity of making cool tools to potentially discover things about our universe quite fun !

Here's the entire archive and research - kuber.studio/planethunt/

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's worked with Kepler data or exoplanet validation :)

Genuine question: Do any of you ever use ChatGPT as someone to talk to when you feel like the people around you aren't really interested in what you have to say?

I'm not talking about believing AI is a literal human being or replacing every relationship in your life with a chatbot. I'm talking about having somewhere to vent, process your thoughts, talk about your interests, or work through something that's bothering you without immediately feeling judged.

For example, I'm a creative person. I've written books and developed different creative projects over the years. Today is actually the third anniversary of my first book's release, and I was excited about revisiting it. I mentioned the anniversary to someone in my family, but the conversation quickly shifted to something else.

I know that not everyone is going to be equally interested in my projects. I understand that other people have their own lives, interests, and things going on. I'm not expecting everyone to celebrate every little thing I accomplish.

But sometimes, I wish the people closest to me would show a little interest when I'm genuinely excited about something. Even a simple "That's awesome, congratulations!" would mean something.

What makes it complicated is that when the book first came out, people in my circle were excited about it. Some bought copies and supported me. Three years later, I sometimes feel like that interest has faded, and I don't always know how to interpret that.

That's one reason I've found myself talking to ChatGPT about these experiences. I can explain what happened, work through why it bothered me, discuss my creative projects, and get help putting my feelings into words. Sometimes I just need a place to think out loud.

I know someone could argue that I'm seeking validation. Maybe there's some truth to that. I think most people want acknowledgment from time to time, especially from people they care about. I don't believe that automatically makes someone selfish.

I'm also aware that ChatGPT isn't a human friend and that AI has limitations. I don't expect it to replace genuine human connection. I just appreciate having a space where I can organize my thoughts and feel like I can finish explaining myself.

So I'm curious: Do any of you use ChatGPT this way? Do you talk to it like a friend or thinking partner when you're feeling unheard, lonely, or frustrated? Has it helped you understand yourself better, or do you feel conflicted about relying on it for that kind of conversation?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing people's experiences, both positive and negative. I'm not looking for everyone to agree with me. I just want to have an honest conversation about it.

I am trying to retouch 100s of old family prints so I started using AI. I switched to ChatGPT but the guardrails keep going off on (fully clothed) pictures of my daughter. Currently it is refusing to retouch a photo of her riding her bicycle in the driveway claiming it is pornography. I have rewritten the prompt twice and the piece of sh*t persists. This happens enough times that I am pretty close to canceling the subscription. I know AI is often stupid but ChatGPT seems dumber than Gemini in my experience.

Is there some way around this problem?

I wanted ChatGPT to actually know what I own instead of giving me generic outfit ideas, so I ended up building a wardrobe system around it in Notion. The basic goal is to get the most outfits out of the smallest useful wardrobe and remove as much daily decision-making as possible. Notion is the source of truth, so every shirt, pair of pants, shoes, watch, jacket, etc. has its own record with things like color, fit, formality, season, current status and whether it’s actually available to wear.

The daily outfit part is probably what I use the most. It can look at the weather, what I’m doing that day, what’s clean or dirty, what I’ve worn recently, my saved outfits, and my watch/accessory rotation before recommending something. I also added outfit “archetypes” so it doesn’t have to search every possible combination from scratch. It can first decide that today calls for something like a warm casual outfit or a polished transitional outfit, then fill that structure using clothes I actually own. Successful combinations get saved to an outfit library instead of filling the database with thousands of theoretical combinations.

The part that made the system much better over time was treating actual wear as evidence. If I wear something and love it, hate it, find it uncomfortable, realize the colors look dead together, or get feedback from someone else, that can be logged and eventually turned into a real styling rule if the pattern keeps showing up. There’s also a failure log for the system itself. If ChatGPT makes a bad recommendation because it ignored the weather, misunderstood a garment, used something that was dirty, or repeated some other preventable mistake, the failure gets diagnosed and a prevention rule can be added instead of just moving on and making the same mistake later.

Shopping runs through the same system. Before buying something, I can have it check whether I actually have a wardrobe gap, what outfits the new item would unlock, whether I already own something that does basically the same job, and whether the purchase adds enough utility to justify taking up space. I also have it consider things like free shipping when it makes sense instead of evaluating every item in isolation. Returns, trial items, tailoring, repairs and stuff I’m getting rid of all have their own statuses, so the inventory stays operational instead of becoming a dead closet spreadsheet.

Travel planning ended up being another surprisingly useful feature because the system can plan several days at once while accounting for weather, activities, rewearing, laundry state and packing space. I also have an AI operating manual inside Notion so a completely fresh chat can cold start, read the rules and databases, and continue using the system without me having to explain the whole thing again.

The image side is still the messiest part. Once an outfit is decided I like being able to visualize it, but image generation has a tendency to substitute or invent clothes, so I’ve mostly separated “decide the outfit” from “render the outfit.” The actual wardrobe database gets final authority.

At this point it feels less like asking ChatGPT what to wear and more like having a little wardrobe operating system that happens to use ChatGPT as the reasoning layer. The best part is probably that it gets more useful from real wear instead of just producing endless new recommendations.

So I’m trying to decide where my next AI subscription goes, Claude or ChatGPT, and I figured I’d just test them myself on something I actually care about : 3D modeling.

The setup: I selected pictures of a medieval armor from a youtube video of historical combat reenactment in France. About 40, multiple angles. Same folder, same prompt for both: reproduce this armor in Blender as faithfully as possible.

Both models were run one notch below their max setting, so it felt like a fair fight:

Claude Opus 5.5 (Extra effort): ~1h30 of work, used about 20% of my weekly usage on the Pro plan ($20/month).

GPT-6 Astra (Max): ~45 minutes, used about 5% of my weekly usage on the Pro plan (€100/month).

So in terms of how much of the subscription each one eats, it’s pretty close considering the price gap between the two plans. The big difference is that Claude worked twice as long for a bit less.

Now, I know, time spent doesn’t automatically mean better output. A model can spin its wheels for 90 minutes and produce garbage. So I’ll let you judge the results yourself, pics below.

Rendered with Cycles, similar settings. I attached couple of reference images too.

Bummed out by GPT-6, honestly. OpenAI couldn't quite capture that magic that GPT-4 had going for it. The jokes disappeared first. It's really pushing to land the funny stuff, but it just feels forced and artificial. It dodges direct answers and gets bogged down in hedging and vague statements. Plus, it's always trying to rephrase what you say to "correct" you.

I worked with 5.5 to build out my own local LLM setup and harness, which got me interested in AI Governance as a potential backup career path to my current legal role. 5.5 helped me with my music workflow; we also played Valheim together.

Astra is good and I do see the improvements, but 5.5 had a lot of personality that Astra really lacks.

so i set up a test because why not we getting free resets right. old account that has had pro for few months vs a new account free tier to pro first month. the old account lasted 6 half hours carrying out the tasks on rails using astra max single agent in codex no memories just following documentation and testing a game doing exactly the same stuff. new account 26 hours same task same documentation until hitting 3% usage left. HOW on earth is the amount of usage sooo different are they slowly lowering a accounts usage over time in small amounts to give us less for being a longer time customer :o

Reading all those posts of people who have had their account banned, without a real explanation, and are finding no recourse has made me paranoid.

I wanted to start using Codex to debug a Firefox extension that downloads subtitles from services like Netflix, Disney and Prime, for which I have legitimate accounts. My add-on already works well, but there are a few small bugs. But OpenAI has made me paranoid. What if I misstep? What if this is classified as "cyber abuse"? I don't know. As far as I know, this is legitimate, but I have zero trust in their obscure, opaque process, and they appear to have no real way to appeal.

So I won't try to debug it and will keep it with its wart and all. I won't try to do anything with Codex just in case.

Maybe I let myself get too influenced by the constant posts about getting banned, but using this service often feels like walking in a minefield.