ChatGPT 5 Faces Wall of Criticism!

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down the troubled GPT-5 launch, including Sam Altman’s reversal of the model routing feature, Perplexity’s $34.5B offer for Chrome, and Truth Social’s new AI search engine powered by Perplexity.

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CHAPTERS:

0:01:22 - OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know (wired.com/story/openais-gpt-5-is-here)

0:09:52 - Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’ (techcrunch.com/2025/08/08/sam-altman-addresses…)

0:25:31 - Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome (wsj.com/tech/perplexity-ai-google-chrome-offer…)

0:31:07 - Trump's Truth Social is getting its own AI search engine — powered by Perplexity (businessinsider.com/trump-truth-social-perplex…)

0:42:13 - Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. (nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-…)

0:47:25 - Jeff has things to say about Kashmir's latest (bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6y2b4lqfw2j3oyycegx3e…)

0:47:54 - Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search (theverge.com/news/720069/google-ai-overviews-s…)

0:53:30 - Jeff's Arxiv-Mania!

1 A taxonomy of hallucinations (arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01781)

2 Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons (arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06470)

Related: Reddit will block the Internet Archive (theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archi…)

3 AI: "We don't need you stinkin' humans." We can train ourselves and reach AGI without you. A paper. (arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05004)

1:02:04 - Meta’s Superintelligence AI SWAT Team Is Now Called TBD Lab (wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-superintelligence-team…)

1:03:34 - Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta (techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/googles-ai-coding-ag…)

1:05:17 - Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot Launches in Beta on PC (thurrott.com/a-i/324288/microsofts-gaming-copi…)

1:08:21 - The Browser Company launches a $20 monthly subscription for its AI-powered browser (techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/the-browser-company-…)

1:10:22 - OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT (bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intellige…)

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