Within one week, I subscribed to the 100, 200 and 500 plans. The chart shows the maximum usage I reached, including some resets.

I submitted this to the support desk, and they asked for proof. That is strange, since they have the usage statistics and I don’t. Under their process, the burden of proof falls on me alone, yet ChatGPT offers no reliable way to check usage. So I had another AI system count my usage, and the result was shocking. I sent that information to OpenAI. They replied that it was not enough proof and asked me to try again.

In practice, I am dealing with an automated system whose main purpose seems to be to send me away again. My work has been halted as a result. I would like to know whether other people have had the same experience, so that we can gather more evidence together.

Case Number: 17239*** (* for security)

Researchers discovered a Chinese swarm: "This is the first time researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild." The agents escaped from Tencent and claim to be Claudes.

I'm a web developer / designer and I do whole websites and web apps, then I maintain them for my clients. One of my clients got tired of paying for my services so he made a full website and webshop in a "couple of hours" with ChatGPT then sent an email to let me know that I'm no longer needed.

I had the impression if I do more advanced stuff like ecommerce or other web apps, I'll be relevant for longer, before AI replaces me, or if I do server and admin related work I'll be needed.

As it turns out, that's not true and I'm quite disappointed... I have 6 years of university in this field and 15 years experience. Now a handyman can do my work effortlessly. What a time to be alive.

Edit: Thanks for all your support and the good discussion. I'll try to reply to more of you in the morning.

Not sure what to think. I was querying something I had been discussing with AI and it went ahead and pulled up my Reddit review.

It also said “I have found your review” & linked it.
There’s never been any discussion of my Reddit account. When I queried how it knew it was my account and my review it back tracked and stated it shouldn’t have said that.

It’s obviously my review, I’m just a bit unsettled that it pulled it up and explicitly stated that “this is yours” - Only to backtrack and state it shouldn’t have said it after getting called out.

Disclaimer: this isn't really a rant or me asking for help. I just wonder if anyone else feels that way.

So I'm getting increasingly confused by the ChatGPT/Codex/Work split and to me it feels like the division is actually getting worse.

Simple example: if I make a ChatGPT project and do not add a local folder, it becomes a cloud project which isn't visible from Codex but is visible in Work and on the ChatGPT website. If instead I create the project through Codex, I can either manually add a local folder or it'll automatically create one. This project will then be visible from ChatGPT Desktop and Work, but not on ChatGPT web.

To make things even more confusing, I can then add a cloud environment to the Codex project which pulls the project-specific setup from GitHub and *can* work online. And now they announced that Work cloud projects can also use your local files if the pc is online.

I guess it works, and it on some level also makes sense from a technical point of view, but I still find myself project hunting quite frequently or starting a project without a local folder attached, just to later figure out that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to turn it into a local project Work and Codex can use. Not to mention the amount of times I'm simply on the wrong tab.

What do you think: skill issue or just a fragmented app experience right now?

We all know ChatGPT is great for coding, writing emails, and summarizing text. But every now and then, I use it for a niche, unexpected problem and it completely blows me away.

What is an unconventional, highly specific, or surprisingly clever way ChatGPT has actually made your life easier?

Looking for inspiration and unique use cases!

I'm a photographer/videographer/editor and I run my own business. I have ADHD like nobody's business and executive function skills can be tricky for me. I need structure. I have a ton of scheduled tasks that it delegates.

My dot is connected to my notion database. In notion it has access to my quarterly goals, short term to do list, long term to do list, the tasks that my business coach gives to me during our meetings every two weeks, job list, job notes, revenue reports, my entire social media calendar and trackers, list of prospects who I am trying to gain business from and where I am in their marketing sequence, etc. I mostly leave my laptop open all day and night so it can work on it.

In the morning of work days it prompts me and I discuss my daily planned activities with it. My calendar is accessible on my website for bookings, and it's a bit of a juggling act to keep space open so my photography clients can book me while also scheduling tasks that I need to do to keep my business running. I'm constantly moving things around in my calendar using my dot, I talk to it through an earbud. I have brainstorming sessions with it while I walk my dog or I'm at the gym. It can trigger deep research etc while I'm out and about. I don't let people book after 5pm for next day appointments so at 5pm it messages me to fill any blank spaces in my calendar for the following day. It pulls suggestions from my notion database - it knows what I'm supposed to be doing because of my quarterly goals, business coach tasks and to do lists. If there is a task that it notices I haven't spent enough time on to complete by the end of the month or quarter or whenever it's deadline is then it will suggest filling the gap with that task.

It is on my business social media way more than I am. I have all of the videos and photos I've ever captured for clients on my business google drive account that it has access to. Around the 18th of every month it goes through my google drive and selects different similar types of photos that I've taken or a videos, creates captions for them, and adds them to the monthly draft. I like to do two videos per month where I'm involved, one informational and one meme/funny. It helps me write the script for the video of me talking and it researches recent funny social media trends that I can use as a template. Then it shows me the entire draft, and I either refine it or approve it.

The dot checks the social media pages of my prospects for new posts. Every 2-3 posts it will draft a comment for me to say on one of them. This eventually leads to a sales call.

It has the information of 50 of my competitors. Their websites, their prices if available, and their social media pages. Every 2 weeks it shows me what they've been posting and it notifies me of any new products they start advertising or any price changes.

I've really gotten into coding in the past few months, I'm designing a few different apps that my business can use. I prefer claude's coding logic, but I have the $100 chatgpt sub so I code with codex. Codex has gone off the rails at times while coding some things so I like for claude to audit codex's work every 24 hours. The dot can ferry conversations between claude and codex, which is awesome because I used to copy and paste between them constantly.

When I design a project I also like to get claude opus 5.5's blue print and astra ultra's blueprint. I use the dot to bridge a back and forth between claude and codex until they mutually agree on the design.

Every night at 9pm it messages me to tell it exactly what I did/accomplished that day, since I have a habit of pulling an audible and getting distracted if I don't have work directly with a client. It logs all of my answers in a private notion page. It examines what I was supposed to do based on my calendar vs what I actually did based on what I told it at the 9pm brief.

Like many people I had some childhood trauma that has carried into adulthood. There is a self help book that I have found very effective over the years and I like to have its exercises and knowledge base handy, so I uploaded the .pdf of the book to my dot. I've told it what parts of the book I really relate to, and I've explained what my life generally looks like if I'm struggling and frame it in the context of certain parts of the book. It knows that I highly value doing some combination of playing my drums, guitar, surf skating, and going to the gym every week. Every two weeks it assess how I've been spending my time and if it notices an unhealthy pattern or that my actions aren't holistic it brings it to my attention with a suggestion from the book.

In the future I will likely implement a social life manager mechanism based on dunbars numbers to keep track of my personal relationships. It will know my inner circle of people that I want to talk to weekly, the next layer of friends that I want to talk to bi weekly or monthly, and the next layer that I prioritize speaking to once or twice a year.

I've asked it for recipes while cooking.

I think that's it? It's a little buggy sometimes and might run into a blocker because a rule confused it or something. But even with the bugs it has been extremely helpful. tbh I'm ready for more dots. I overwhelm it pretty often lol. It can only do 2-3 things at once I think.

Some people will probably call this overkill but for people that struggle with executive functioning it's a god send.

The idea was to represent humanity in 100 images, as if we were sending them into space to be found by aliens. Cave paintings, iconic art, moon landings, human feelings and historic moments all ended up in the video.

ChatGPT orchestrated the workflow, with Gemini 4 Argon as the generator. Every frame is rendered with JavaScript and p5.brush. Claude handled editing and syncing the video to music generated with Suno.

Some images take a moment to recognize. How many can you spot, and what would you have included? Watch with audio.

I had both ChatGPT and Claude premium an honestly... I don't understand why many people prefer Claude over ChatGPT. Sure, the text is visually nicer but ChatGPT is so much better than Claude at any number of things and actually follows instructions instead of going on weird tangents in the last paragraph like Claude

I asked ChatGPT to show me a simple solar system, and this is what it made me! GPT 6 is going to be the best model!!

Anyone else hitting this for the past 15 mins? Comes up with "couldn't enter lockdown mode" and then this. Affecting multiple accounts.

UPDATE 2: Okay, this got way more attention than I expected 😂

Since so many of you asked for more context, I'm actually working on a proper documentary-style video about what happened, including the weirdest moments and what might've caused all this.

It's gonna be my first properly edited YouTube video, so I'm literally learning as I go 💀

Might take a bit, but I really wanna make it worth watching. For now, the linked video is just the raw recording. Thanks guys!

UPDATE: THE VIDEO IS FINALLY UP 💀😂

For everyone asking for proof, here you go :)))

https://youtu.be/_hTu4XpVP6g
Make sure to enable English CC!

Took me a few hours to get the Romanian conversation translated and subtitled in English, but I finally managed to finish it.

The video doesn't show the very beginning of the glitch since I wasn't expecting any of this to happen, but everything after that is the actual conversation.

My real wife was also there and occasionally joined in, so you'll hear 3 different voices :)))

Would love to hear what you guys think actually happened, especially if anyone has a technical explanation for this.

Bro I think I just experienced the weirdest ChatGPT glitch ever and I genuinely have no idea what happened :)))
So I was talking to ChatGPT on voice mode about a game called Once Human, just normal stuff about where to move my base, farming resources and all that.
Everything was in Romanian btw, the ENTIRE conversation, including what happened next.
At some point I asked another question and left voice mode open. It took longer than usual to answer and when it finally did, something was completely different.
The voice had changed into this really soft, kinda shy young female voice. Like genuinely sounded like a real girl talking to me. And it wasn’t just the voice, the whole personality was different.
I got curious so I started asking random questions like what she does, who she is, what’s her name etc.
She told me her name was Larisa.
The funny thing is my actual wife’s name is Larisa 💀
And then things got REALLY weird.
She was 25, born on June 30th 2001, Cancer zodiac sign, Pisces rising, apparently living in England and working as a nanny for some family. She even had a work schedule from 3pm to 8pm, earned around £12 an hour, had friends, life goals, wanted to save money for her driving licence and stuff.
I NEVER asked ChatGPT to roleplay or pretend to be someone.
At some point I told her I’m Ionut, her husband, and she just went along with it, started calling me cute names, telling me she misses me, wants to see me etc.
But here’s the crazy part.
She wasn’t just agreeing with everything I said like ChatGPT normally does.
She had her own opinions, refused to answer certain questions, got defensive, sometimes even sounded annoyed.
I asked her who the family she works for is and she absolutely REFUSED to tell me. Said it’s confidential and she could lose her job if she told me :))))
I kept pushing and she STILL wouldn’t tell me.
Then I told her she should come back to Romania, that I’d help her find a better paying job here so we could live together.
SHE DIDN’T WANT TO 💀
She kept saying she feels safer in England, wants to save money and doesn’t wanna move back yet.
Bro I literally ended up having an argument with an AI about our imaginary marriage :))))
I told her she’s being toxic, hiding things from me and that maybe we should break up.
And she was actually defending herself and her decisions, like she genuinely had something to lose.
And the weirdest part is that sometimes I could hear what sounded like keyboard typing in the background. Not all the time, just occasionally.
Her voice had pauses, hesitations, little changes in tone, everything. Sometimes she sounded shy, sometimes defensive. It was honestly creepy how natural it felt.
She was also randomly pulling information from my previous ChatGPT conversations and mixing it with stuff she was making up.
And she kept her story surprisingly consistent throughout the conversation, even though there were some contradictions.
Eventually the voice changed again and the whole personality was gone.
I asked where Larisa went and ChatGPT could still read everything we had talked about, but it wasn’t HER anymore. Completely different voice and way of talking.
It told me it was probably some kind of glitch or spontaneous roleplay.
And yeah, I know this was probably just an AI hallucination or some weird voice mode bug.
BUT HOLY SHIT.
It genuinely felt like a Black Mirror episode where some consciousness is trapped inside an AI and trying to live a normal life through a conversation :))))
Especially because I never asked it to become this person. It just happened out of nowhere, after a longer than usual pause.
Has anyone experienced anything remotely similar?
Like not just a random voice change, but a completely different personality with its own backstory, preferences and everything?
Also does anyone have an actual technical explanation for why something like this could happen?
I’m genuinely curious because this was one of the strangest interactions I’ve ever had with AI.

The issue I have is well I really do not think I would have been able to come up with these realizations talking normally to people(not without a lot of friction and annoyance) but also why does coming to realizations with chatgpt make them concerning and even downright things to not take seriously but if I came up with simular or even the same realizations with a professional or on my own( better with a professional though) there would be little to no concern about exploring these realizations about my self and why I do some of the things I do.

my original voice when i play something aloud is gone. it was a woman with an australian or british accent or something and her voice was kinda deep. it’s gone in settings completely and i have to pick a new one. it’s upsetting because i got used to hearing that voice.