In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks through the rough launch of GPT-5, and how ChatGPT’s fandom-like following has become a huge problem for OpenAI.

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In this week&rsquo;s monologue, Ed Zitron walks through the rough launch of GPT-5, and how ChatGPT&rsquo;s fandom-like following has become a huge problem for OpenAI.
The Enshittification of Generative AI: <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/</a>
The Wall Street Journal - The Next Great Leap in AI Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gpt5-orion-delays-639e7693?ref=wheresyoured.at">https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gpt5-orion-delays-639e7693?ref=wheresyoured.at&nbsp;</a>
Live service game post: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/catharsis23.bsky.social/post/3lw5jvotgfk2">https://bsky.app/profile/catharsis23.bsky.social/post/3lw5jvotgfk2</a>
Better Offline listener deal: Get $15 Off Where's Your Ed At Premium! Deal goes until the end of August. <a href="https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/better-offline-discount">https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/better-offline-discount</a>
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Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 

Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.



Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.
 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/3748ddbd-7edd-4034-80c3-b339011b2e62/transcript