#chatgpt

#chatgpt

When we decided to build our tiny home in late 2024, we had no building experience whatsoever. Simone had never even painted a wall before. Thankfully, ChatGPT had arrived at the perfect time. We spent our evenings asking it about almost everything. While AI was genuinely helpful during the building process, we quickly learned we couldn't rely on it alone.

State of play: OpenAI's usage data shows a steady decline in the amount of work-related messaging happening on consumer ChatGPT from July 2024 through December 2025. The data comes from 100,000 "de-identified" conversations on free and paid consumer accounts, meaning OpenAI researchers looked at anonymized messages to understand broad themes. Friction point: Since ChatGPT's launch, evangelists who used free and paid consumer accounts for work tasks often convinced their companies to pay for the pricier enterprise accounts.

Most people become an expert in something by putting in their 10,000 hours. But what a waste that is when you can just trick ChatGPT into telling everyone you are an expert in about 20 minutes. BBC reporter Thomas Germain laid out how he got ChatGPT and Google's Gemini AI to recognize his hot dog-eating prowess with what amounts to a modern SEO trick.

Did you know you can teach ChatGPT how to respond to certain requests? Not only can you give ChatGPT instructions, but they'll stick (mostly) for every session. This feature is called Custom Instructions. It lives in the Personalization tab of ChatGPT's settings. In a minute, I'll show you a set of really powerful directives that can help make you super productive.

"I think I am unusually good at projecting multiple things- years or a couple of decades into the future-and understanding how those are going to interact together," Altman told Forbes in February. What is clear is that in 2026 and beyond, OpenAI and Altman have a lot riding on his vision. In 2022, Altman oversaw the release of ChatGPT, kicking off what Bill Gates called "the age of AI."

People who enter phrases such as best flowers for Valentine's Day, might see ads from an Albertsons banner in their area. Albertsons' participation in the pilot program follows other steps the company has taken to integrate agentic and generative AI tools into its operations. Albertsons said its retail media unit, Albertsons Media Collective, will be looking to help brands reach shoppers through ChatGPT as the pilot program progresses.

ChatGPT has come a long way since its introduction in 2022. Usually, when we discuss improvements, we talk about how the AI model has gotten better, safer, and smarter. But if you deconstruct the name ChatGPT, you're left with "chat" and "GPT," where GPT means generative, pre-trained transformer (that's the AI part). Today, we're going to dig into the chat side, because ChatGPT has become a far more full-featured AI chat app than it was back when it first launched.

ChatGPT is quickly becoming a regular habit, not just a novelty. The average user opens the app approximately 13 times a month, putting it on par with X and ahead of Reddit, according to Sensor Tower. Meanwhile, 57% of parents of 11- and 12-year-olds say their child already has their own smartphone, according to Pew Research Center, giving the youngest teens direct access to AI tools without parental mediation.

Over the course four months, Thomas lost his job as a funeral director, began living out of a van out in the desert, and completely emptied his savings. It all started after he began talking to AIs like ChatGPT for advice, and he soon got hooked. It "inflated my worldview and my view of myself" almost instantly, he told Slate. Eventually, he found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after an AI told him to "follow the pattern" of his consciousness.