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.

The Enshittification of Generative AI: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/

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Ep 679 Char Crotts, Amanda Luton, Anthony Raymondo