The GPT in ChatGPT refers to Generative Pre-training Transformer, referring to the way that ChatGPT processes language (LINK).
GLOBAL GENEVA INSIGHTS: AI health check — cryptocurrencies: the patient is still very sick (LINK)
INC: Sentence structure giveaway that AI wrote it (LINK) 19 December 2025
— Sometimes it’s punctuation that comes under suspicion. (The em dash is generally considered the shadiest). [Not true, see the start of this paragraph.] See mixed metaphors and the 'rule of three': descriptors or examples in groups of three. Most of all: any sentence following the pattern ‘It’s not X, it’s Y'.
How much energy does each ChatGPT prompt really use? (LINK) 19 December 2025
— In June, CEO Sam Altman posted a blog that included the energy consumption of "the average" ChatGPT query: 0.34 watt-hours. Altman equates this to "about what an oven would use in a little over a second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes." Altman included no context or information about how it was calculated. Third-party AI labs ran tests of GPT-5 and released estimates that it may consume as much as 8.6 times more power per query compared to GPT-4.
School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Florida Exec says it wasn’t an error: student was "dressed as a military character from the Christmas movie Red One for the school's Christmas-themed dress-up day" (LINK) 18 December 2025
Rolling Stone: AI is inventing academic papers that don't exist — and they’re being cited in real journals (LINK) 17 December 2025
OpenAI, Anthropic, Block launch agentic AI standards body under the Linux Foundation, joined by Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare (LINK) 10 December 2025
Trump AI regulation order hallucinates more fake law than any AI (LINK) 12 December 2025
— "Can a president unilaterally invent new laws and then assert that this counts as occupying the field to then preempt state laws? No, of course not. But he issued the order anyway because this administration is itself a hallucination engine stochastically vomiting out orders."
OpenAI is training models to 'confess' when they lie (LINK) 5 December 2025
The era of ads in ChatGPT begins: users furious as even $200 a month Pro subscribers hit with app suggestions (LINK) 3 December 2025
AI companies are failing existential safety tests: leading AI companies advancing toward superhuman systems without guardrails to stop catastrophic failure (LINK) 3 December 2025
