In simple chat conversations, where i want it to generate a javascript line of code, it gets stupid. But in other chats, where i raise more difficult topics and thus i explain more than ask, it seems to be quite smart.

gpt-5-1 is getting worse. Answering previous question again, ignoring the newer question. Even without entering the thinking mode.

And overall more stupid today.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69371729-f090-8004-b69b-aa9f25ca0b40 here is a recent, but not very bright example, since it did finish the task after all (it used to completely ignore the most recent task in other cases). After thinking it answered "Yes" again, even though second prompt does not contain a question.

I slightly incorrectly posed a question and did not explain what i meant by abundancy, but i feel that is not a problem, since chat has this behaviour in any conversation it uses deep-thinking mode.

For the last week ChatGPT 5.1 is glitching.

*It claims to be 5.1, I do not know how to check it, since I use free version (limited questions per day), and there is no version selection. 

When I ask it to explain some topic and ask deeper and deeper questions, at some point it chooses to enter the thinking mode. I see that the topics it thinks about are relevant, but as it stops thinking it and says something similar "Ah, Great, here is the answer..." and explains another topic from like 2-3 messages back, which is already not related to the question.

I do not use memory or characters features.

I now understand music physical records.

Previously, I could not grasp. They said the quality is better. "Why do you like it? It is white-noisy, slightly muted, you can hear the scratches. Electronic music recreates closer to the original soundwaves."

Now I am one of those. A person might use AI tools and ask me: "Why do you prefer ordinary tools? They are hundred times slower, and the product accumulates all you mistakes. While AI tool recreates closer to the original idea."

Now I see the loss of authenticity on this ladder: Live art, live performance with electronic tools, physical record, electronic record, electronic record with AI tools.

Each step reduces mistakes of the performance, and reduces the value, as the mistakes are part of human unique experience.

And that recognition made me want to quit things like spotify and only listen to live artists in small cafes. Quit pinterest and visit local galleries. Quit yt and make my own stories.

Despite AI slop my internet usage might be temporarily growing.

I have a feeling that I am witnessing the last months of internet having low-enough-for-me density of generated content. If it continues to grow, I will not even bother opening Youtube and similar websites or using any recommendation algorithms. So I am spending the time binging to "say goodbye" to the authenticity and human approach of my favourite parts of the internet.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai?utm_campaign=post_share&utm_source=link this new post fits to my argument, üresenting many instances of the edge case of "mindless publishing". It shows the problem from memetic view, not from the addiction concept.

Step one, humans created stories (speech), but stories mutated too rapidly with each pass and few ideas survived.

Step 2. Humans created books, which allowed efficient ideas to preserve unchanged, being able to make effect on the next generation.

Step 3. Humans created internet, which gifted ideas spacially instant traversion.

Step 4. Humans created AI, which allows ideas being processed/(worked on) more.

Here is a funny conspiracy theory. The humanity's desire for "information, progress and education" is the compound effect of all the meme population. Non-talking animals do not tend to be racing for AI or for anything info- or meme-related.

Thanks for the article!

My stepfather is a cult leader, and I think that is what is happening. He is not smart, but the system he is in the center of is self-perpetuating, just like this thing.

 This spiral-cult (meme) demonstrated in the article has a high rate of spontanious creation and an efficient propagation to human minds.

I do not agree that there is a clear boundary for self-awareness. It is not a binary, but should be seen and studied as a real numbers line. There are systems with almost no ability to orderly process information (stone, let's say 0), there are more complicated systems (ant, 0.01) (ant colony, 0.2, bringing calculation, self modification, complacated reactions to environment), (dog, 0.8), (human, 1). From my experience those are not fixed numbers, each individual has their own score: i have definitely seen some dogs more aware/smart/intelligent/inventive than some humans. Cult followers lose a lot of agency, critical thinking, independent planning ability, etc, which would place them much below 0.8, they are like robots serving for the meme.

Meme theory predicts that some random memes will find survival strategy. If the survival strategy means camouflage to look like self-awareness, then it will increasingly blur and handicap any attempt to distinguish awareness, which is partially truly moving itself along the real-numbers line and partially being "making a model of the human".

If this spiral-cult-meme is actively adapting for self preservation (not due to selection), then the meme also has non-zero score. It uses both brains, forums and llms as their medias.

I do not know this thing: "the base LLM's selection of personas.". I have never heard something being selected on the server end.

Would you consider working with your feet? Tomato squashing, as in Italian/Spain souce making tradition.