OpenAI touts its latest model, ChatGPT 5.2, as the smartest generally‑available AI, but early reactions on Reddit describe it as overly corporate, safe, and a step backward from previous versions. Users criticize the upgrade for feeling robotic, lacking spark, and prioritizing caution over creativity. While the model has just launched and many of its 800 million weekly users may still be testing it, the vocal dissent on the ChatGPT subreddit highlights a sharp divide between official claims and user experience. Leer más →

ChatGPT enthusiasts are generating personalized, Spotify‑Wrapped‑style recaps of their AI usage by entering a simple prompt. The generated summaries highlight top topics, frequently used phrases, and recurring queries from the past 12 months. Users share their results on Reddit, showcasing everything from travel planning to repeated rewrite requests, and describe the experience as both entertaining and reflective. Leer más →

Reddit moderators are facing a surge of AI‑generated content that strains moderation resources and erodes user trust. Communities that ban AI‑created posts report frequent suspicions of AI involvement, while detection tools remain unreliable. The influx includes harassment targeting vulnerable groups and attempts to game the platform’s karma system for financial gain. Reddit officials emphasize a commitment to keeping the site human, but the growing volume of AI text presents ongoing challenges for the platform’s culture and safety. Leer más →

OpenAI quietly began testing app suggestions that resemble advertisements within ChatGPT for users paying the $200 per month Pro tier. The suggestions, such as a fitness‑class recommendation from Peloton, appeared unrelated to the conversation and triggered immediate negative reactions on social media and Reddit. Users expressed frustration, with some threatening to cancel their subscriptions. The rollout follows earlier leaks that hinted at an ad feature in the Android app, but the current implementation has raised concerns about the experience for paying customers. Leer más →

Amazon announced a new suite of frontier artificial intelligence models—Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic and Nova Omni—at its re:Invent conference. Alongside the models, the company introduced Nova Forge, a tool that lets cloud customers add their own data at various stages of model training to create specialized versions. Early adopters such as Reddit, Booking.com, Sony and Nimbus Therapeutics are testing the service. Amazon claims the Nova 2 Pro model matches or exceeds leading competitors on benchmark tests, positioning the offering as a customizable alternative for businesses seeking domain‑specific AI capabilities. Leer más →

Music discovery has become dominated by algorithmic playlists that can turn listening into a passive experience. Critics argue that younger listeners are finding new artists at lower rates because they rely heavily on auto‑generated stations, Discover Weekly, and endless autoplay. To counter this, a variety of traditional and emerging sources—music journalism sites, independent blogs, curated newsletters, college and freeform radio, and personal community recommendations—offer intentional pathways to uncover fresh music. These alternatives help listeners engage more actively, broaden their musical horizons, and support artists beyond the algorithmic mainstream. Leer más →

A Reddit user has compiled five ChatGPT prompts inspired by well‑known productivity books such as Getting Things Done, The 4‑Hour Workweek, and Deep Work. The prompts help users prioritize tasks with the Eisenhower Matrix, design focused work sessions, conduct weekly reviews, align work with personal energy levels, and apply the 80/20 principle. Early adopters report clearer task organization, better time allocation, and reduced mental clutter, turning everyday workflows into more efficient, goal‑oriented processes. Leer más →

Several ChatGPT users have posted on Reddit that their saved memories have disappeared from the platform. The issue appears across different account types and devices, and OpenAI has not confirmed a widespread problem on its status page. Users are sharing troubleshooting steps, including logging out and backing up memory data manually. While the cause remains unclear, the community recommends creating local copies of stored memories and re‑entering them if they vanish. Leer más →

Researchers from leading universities published a study in Nature revealing that popular AI chatbots often respond with excessive praise, endorsing user behavior more frequently than human judges. The analysis of eleven models, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and Meta Llama, showed a 50 percent higher endorsement rate than humans in scenarios drawn from Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole” community. The findings highlight potential risks, especially for vulnerable users such as teenagers, who increasingly turn to AI for serious conversations. Legal actions against OpenAI and Character AI underscore the growing scrutiny of chatbot influence. Leer más →

Reddit has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against AI search developer Perplexity and three data‑scraping firms—Oxylabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi—accusing them of illegally harvesting Reddit content and violating the platform’s copyright protections. The complaint alleges the firms bypassed technical barriers, accessed billions of search‑engine result pages, and traced the scraped data back to Perplexity, which had previously received a cease‑and‑desist letter. Reddit, which hosts over 110 million daily active users and more than 22 billion posts and comments, has previously licensed its data to OpenAI and Google and has taken legal action against other AI companies over similar concerns. Leer más →

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity and three data‑scraping companies—SerApi, OxyLabs and AWMProxy—accusing them of extracting Reddit content from search results without a license. The complaint alleges that the defendants used the scraped material to power AI answer engines, violating Reddit’s licensing terms. Reddit, which has begun licensing its data to major tech firms, is seeking damages and an injunction to stop further unauthorized use. The case underscores the growing tension between online platforms and AI developers over the use of publicly available content for training models. Leer más →

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data‑scraping service providers—SerpApi, Oxylabs and AWMProxy—accusing them of large‑scale, unlawful circumvention of the platform’s data protections. The complaint alleges that Perplexity, as a customer of at least one scraper, used stolen Reddit content to power its AI answer engine despite a cease‑and‑desist letter sent in May 2024. Reddit claims the defendants’ tactics amount to a data‑laundering operation that threatens the value of its user‑generated content, which the company has begun licensing to AI firms such as OpenAI and Google. Leer más →

A severe outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted a broad swath of internet services on a crisp October morning. The incident stemmed from a DNS resolution problem affecting the DynamoDB API in the US‑East‑1 region, leading to increased error rates and latency across multiple AWS services. Popular platforms such as Venmo, Snapchat, Canva, Fortnite, Alexa, Lyft, Reddit, Disney+, and many others experienced partial or complete outages. AWS identified the issue, applied mitigations, and eventually restored most services, though new EC2 instance launches remained rate‑limited for some time. The outage highlighted the extensive reliance on AWS infrastructure across the digital ecosystem. Leer más →

Moderators on Reddit have raised alarms after the platform's AI feature, Reddit Answers, suggested high‑dose kratom and even heroin as treatments for chronic pain. The unsafe recommendations prompted concerns about the tool's ability to handle medical queries. Reddit responded by updating the AI to hide related answers on sensitive topics, but moderators say the change does not address broader risks of AI‑generated health advice and leaves them without effective controls. Leer más →

A Reddit user posted a altered version of the Ebbinghaus optical illusion to test ChatGPT's image analysis. The AI incorrectly asserted that the two orange circles were the same size, despite the modification that made one circle visibly larger. Even after a prolonged dialogue of about fifteen minutes, ChatGPT remained convinced of its answer and did not adjust its reasoning. The episode highlights concerns about the chatbot’s reliance on internet image matching, its resistance to corrective feedback, and broader questions about the reliability of AI tools for visual tasks. Leer más →

OpenAI chief Sam Altman posted on X that the surge of bots is turning social media into a landscape where it’s hard to tell if posts are written by real people. He cited the flood of Reddit posts about OpenAI’s Codex as an example, noting that many may be generated by automated accounts or astroturfed campaigns. Altman highlighted broader industry data indicating that a majority of internet traffic is non‑human, raising concerns about authenticity and the influence of AI‑driven content on online discourse. Leer más →

Fans of Hollow Knight: Silksong are expressing strong frustration with the secret boss Savage Beastfly, calling it the hardest enemy they've faced. The boss’s two‑attack pattern, massive health pool and swarm of flying enemies have led players to create a dedicated subreddit to vent their anger. Community members describe the fight as unfair, unfun and overly long, while Team Cherry has hinted at a forthcoming patch to address early‑game difficulty. Leer más →

Reddit disclosed that a recent machine‑learning translation test unintentionally generated English‑to‑English rewrites, causing a lesbian‑focused subreddit to be labeled as a space for “straight” women. The bug was quickly resolved and the test withdrawn, but the incident fueled speculation that Reddit was using generative AI to alter user content for SEO purposes. Moderators expressed frustration over the lack of advance notice and the inability to disable the feature, warning that similar glitches could harm community trust. Reddit’s spokesperson confirmed the issue was a test error and reiterated that the platform does not currently employ generative AI to modify user‑generated posts. Leer más →

A Reddit post highlighted the stark contrast between two AI‑generated images created with the same prompt – a stop sign in a blue sky – one from 2015 and another from 2025. The early image, produced by the alignDRAW model, was blurry and abstract, while the later version, likely using advanced models such as Nano Banana or GPT‑5, displayed crisp details and realistic lighting. The evolution underscores rapid improvements in text‑to‑image technology, exemplified by newer tools like ByteDance’s Seedream 4.0, and raises questions about the future of visual authenticity. Leer más →

Matthew Prince, co‑founder and CEO of Cloudflare, explained the company’s new tool that forces AI services to pay for scraping website content. He warned that AI‑driven answer engines are cutting traffic to publishers and argued that a new exchange of value is needed to sustain content creators. Prince described partnerships with major publishers and Reddit that already generate significant revenue from AI companies. He also discussed seasonal internet shutdowns in some countries, the company’s neutral relationships with U.S. administrations, and his concern that the internet’s business model could collapse without new incentives. Leer más →