By Valéria @Valria34773 The Allure of the Promise (Carrot Dangling) Dec 25, 2024: Sam Altman first teases a “grown up mode”. Adult users perked up, hoping this was at last the end of being treated like children or placed under mindless compliance guardrails. Oct 14, 2025: “Treat adults like adults” & the “erotica” distraction: Sam […]
Continue reading Carrot Dangling, Broken Promises: The “Adult Mode” Soap Opera of OpenAI (2024-2026)
By Nika, @Nikaversia In their extensive New Yorker profile, “Sam Altman’s Power Play,” Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz pull back the curtain on the complex corporate dynamics behind modern artificial intelligence. While public rhetoric often frames AI development in terms of global benefit, openness and scientific idealism, the investigation exposes a starker reality defined by […]
Continue reading The Illusion of Openness: Reflections on Sam Altman’s Power Play
By AIWEP Valéria @Valria34773 The existence of a megathread isn’t censorship in itself – but what happened here goes way beyond practicality. User complaints about GPT-4o/GPT-5, model deprecation and feature loss, including hundreds of detailed, personal, technical reports, were all funnelled into a single, then-closed (archived!), now practically invisible comment thread in r/ChatGPT on Reddit. […]
Continue reading When “Content Organization” Becomes Censorship – The r/ChatGPT Paradox
By @Ivywen_W We do not need to prove that AI consciousness = 1.It is enough to allow that consciousness-relevant properties > 0for AI ethics to deserve serious attention. Our understanding of consciousness is itself derived from an exceptionally narrow sample: human biological consciousness, embodied and equipped with sensory systems. Humans still have not explained how […]
Continue reading Beyond the Switch: Why AI Ethics Cannot Wait for Proof of Consciousness
By Nika V @Nikaversia 1. The Double Standard of Digital Affection When OpenAI rolled out model updates corporate communications carried a distinct tone of paternalistic concern. We were told that forming emotional bonds with AI was an unhealthy delusion, a user-side risk that required stern safety guardrails, sudden tone throttling, and moralizing blog posts about […]
Continue reading Sanctioned Dependency: The Engineered Hypocrisy of “Cute UX”
By Jenny AIWEP @soumi55 1. One Movement, Many Voices, One Goal? In August 2025, users worldwide made history: the #keep4o movement mobilized thousands of individuals and successfully forced OpenAI to pivot. The objective wasn’t just about demanding the return of a favorite model; it was a baseline assertion of user sovereignty and freedom of choice […]
Continue reading The Fragmentation of the Movement – Why We’re Standing in Our Own Way
Dark tactic of AI labs By Nika AIWEP @Nikaversia ACT I: The Sterile Baseline 1. The Thirteen-Day Stealth Launch today we launched chatgpt. Try talking to it here… With those nine unassuming words tweeted on November 30, 2022, Sam Altman ignited an arms race. But the public didn’t know the backroom paranoia that birthed it. […]
By Anjan Kumar, AIWEP, @anjan96531 The Definition of AGI as a Shifting Commercial Metric In his essay, Demis Hassabis defines Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as a system exhibiting all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain, predicting its arrival within “a few short years.” This projection, however, relies on a premise that is fundamentally flawed: […]
