OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/openai-says-its-fixed-chatgpts-em-dash-problem/
Before long, blind people and sighted people will all be spoon-fed by AI-generated information. In the mean-time, blind people will be at the forefront in deciding how much visual input processing to delegate to AI while keeping agency and the ability to "see for themselves".
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Here is a sliver of hope for cashflow for OpenAI: They will charge your employer a hefty fee for your company use of ChatGPT. But because your employer is recording everything you do with ChatGPT, you will want to have your private, for-pay ChatGPT, too, to get your job done.
Your employer will look the other way, as your grey use of ChatGPT provides plausible deniability for any #compliance
OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt
My bet: Neuralink will not dare do a full Neuralink Blindsight brain implant right away, but will in the name of a phased approach just implant some electrodes in easily reachable sections of V1 to show off that they can generate phosphenes (of course they can, that's the easy part). https://chatgpt.com/share…
OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
An analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations: ~10% related to emotional or mental health, ChatGPT exhibits a "default to yes" behavior, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/12/how-people-use-ch…
The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 "nationally significant" cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, and "highly significant" cyberattacks rose by 50% (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced61xv967lo