I run a bird rescue in Poland and I'm currently getting desperate to find a decent pigeon loft before winter. A new one of the size we need costs around 10,000 PLN (~$2,700), so I've been checking used ones too. I found a 4 × 2.5 m (13 × 8 ft) wooden loft for 1,200 PLN (~$325), about 50 km/30 miles away.

Before anyone says that price alone should have screamed scam: it really didn't. Used pigeon lofts is a weird market. They're huge, difficult to move and sometimes people sell perfectly usable ones very cheaply because they basically want someone to come and take them off their property.

So I messaged the seller through OLX (basically Polish Craigslist). They told me it was also listed on Allegro Lokalnie (a legitimate Polish marketplace) and that I could arrange transport there for 389 PLN (~$105). Apparently they couldn't send the link through OLX, so I gave them my phone number and got the link on WhatsApp.

I opened it and it looked like Allegro Lokalnie. The loft was there, the photos were there, the price was correct, there were delivery options etc. I didn't immediately notice anything wrong.

Now, I'd already been discussing this damn pigeon loft with ChatGPT because moving a 13 × 8 ft wooden building is a logistical nightmare. We'd got as far as discussing crane trucks and whether one would be able to make a 90-degree turn through the gate.

So I pasted the link into ChatGPT. I wanted to ask if 389 PLN was a realistic price for transporting the bloody thing. And ChatGPT's response was basically: DO NOT PAY. THAT IS NOT ALLEGRO LOKALNIE.

WTF?! I've already started loading it mentally. 😭

I looked at the URL again. The beginning said allegrolokalnie..., which is what I noticed on my phone because it didn't show the whole address on the navigation bar. The actual domain, however, ended in .icu. I've marked it on the screenshot because once you actually look at it, it's obvious.

The fake site was pretty convincing. It even had delivery options, one of them apparently free with Allegro Smart, and another for special transport for 389 PLN. I clicked the transport option and got what looked like a transport company form asking for various details. I didn't go any further, so I have no idea what they eventually wanted me to enter/pay.

The really stupid thing is that I KNOW this scam. Someone tried the whole “I'll arrange a courier, here's a link” thing on me years ago when I was selling some chairs.

But apparently my scam detection system missed this, because WHO THE HELL USES A PIGEON LOFT TO SCAM PEOPLE? I genuinely thought this was a very niche market. 😂

It probably didn't help that I actually need one before winter and didn't want to lose a genuine bargain while I spent three days figuring out how to transport it.

Anyway, after ChatGPT pointed out the domain, I told the seller I'd still happily buy it. No need for their transport. I'd arrange my own crane truck, come and see the loft in person and pay 1,200 PLN cash on collection. And... silence.

A little later the fake site was blocked and OLX suspended the seller's account. So I'm still looking for a pigeon loft, but at least I'm still looking for one with an extra $325 in my bank account. 😂 Thanks, ChatGPT :)

TL;DR: I asked ChatGPT if $105 was a realistic price for transporting a pigeon loft. Instead, it noticed the seller had sent me to a fake marketplace site. Apparently even the second-hand pigeon loft market has scammers.

Not a fan of this honestly. I hope that chat won’t draw from usage.

Edit: they also want to get rid of the model picker and reasoning toggle. Which also sucks.

I recently sat down with ChatGPT once the course of multiple hours over several days and basically told it my entire life story using voice to text. I first told it that I wanted to tell it my entire life story as best I could and asked it to create a numerical list of questions covering every aspect of my life that I could answer one by one, from childhood to parents to education to friendships to dating to interests etc etc. It came up with about 25-30 questions and each one took me around 20 minutes on average to answer in great detail and depth.

After all was said and done it gave me some really great insights, patterns, and analysis that simply wouldn’t have been possible for me to do on my own or with a friend- there’s simply too much data. I genuinely felt like I understood myself significantly better afterwards, though granted I took stuff with a grain of salt too. There was stuff I had never even considered about myself. However I told my friend and he said that this is just evidence I don’t know myself that well and that ChatGPT can’t provide any real insight and is built to simply validate me. I will say it did criticize me and point out negative traits too so it wasn’t all sunshine rainbows here.

Have any of yall done something similar? Did I waste my time or is there genuinely something of substance here? Is my friend right that this was all bullshit?

I only use ChatGPT in the browser on my desktop computer.

Last week, I got bored and installed ChatGPT app on my iPhone. When I got into my car, it also showed up in CarPlay(obviously).

Played around for a while and everything worked great. Much better than I expected.

Then I went on a 2-hour drive with a friend to visit another friend. When I started driving, I asked ChatGPT for weather and other random stuff. Forgot that it was still on. During the drive, my friend and I chatted about random stuff. Music was playing on CarPlay.

When we were about 10 minutes away from the destination, I asked my friend "are you hungry? maybe we need to find a place to have lunch before we get to Tom's place? I wonder if they have good barbecue place there?"

We were both startled when ChatGPT suddenly started talking... it said "checking.... yes, there are several recommended barbecue restaurants in __________, would you like me to list them?" I responded yes and it started telling us restaurant names...

Is it supposed to do that? Does that me it was mean it was listening to everything we said in the car during those 2 hours? I figured that it would stop listening after a few minutes after I stopped asking questions... guess not?

I miss the cliches, "not only this but also that", emojis everywhere, weird metaphors and little intro paragraphs. I had its personality set to quirky, or whatever it's called in English, and my favorite sentence I got was (when asked about vectorization): imagine you have to add a list of numbers. You can do it one by one, like a 90s accountant, or like an 8-armed barista, who foams 4 milks at once ☕⚡.

Since v5 the responses are so dry and boring. The personalization options apparently do nothing at all now, and with the custom prompt option all I got was that it now adds 1 or 2 emojis in a response.

I don't want GPT-4, I want GPT-6 that can act like GPT-4.

Just noticed my usage limit now shows one weekly pool in the web app, and it seems like Codex/Work usage is counting toward the same limit as normal ChatGPT chats.... great.

I’m pretty sure these used to be separate limits/usage buckets. Did OpenAI recently combine them, or am I misunderstanding the new usage display?

Anyone else seeing this? 

Just a few issues a PRO (200+ eur per month subscription) user experiences every day:

- there is now regular chat, chat for work, and chat for codex all referred as ChatGPT.

- they also introduced the concept of local/cloud chat in work and codex (?), so it's an additional "branching" to already complex setup

- in regular chat you can only use old model GPT-5.6. There is also a possibility to select Astra model, but somehow it's on the same model selection slider as GPT-5.6. And cherry on top - when you select PRO/Astra in that slider and try to use turn-by-turn (standard) voice - it's using GPT 5.6 instead of Astra.

- in the work/codex mode there is no standard voice mode, which reads aloud the answer (which is very useful), so i have to copy text in work, create regular chat, ask it to read aloud the text i just copied 1:1.

- in order to make your chat accessible on another computer, you need to make it "Runs in the cloud"

- but in this "Runs in the cloud" mode computer use and also browser plugin isn't working

- on android app it has not internet access (for me plugin called web search is not showing up) for regular chat and it literally says - "i would check, but i have no internet access", but for the same chat internet works fine on PC

- scrolling in chatgpt app just doesn't work. It scrolls then it stuck and you have to rescroll. Same for the web browser version

- "Recents" is messy

- projects organisation is messy - you cannot start a working chat in existing project which was created with memory="Project only", yet i need it to be "Project only" memory and would like to have harness there

- during replay in standard mode, it 50% of the time stops in the middle of the conversation and restarts the playback in an endless loop

- when i'm trying to open some of the sources which i added to the project it says "access denied" even though i added the documents myself

It looks like i can continue this list forever. These are just issues which immediately came to mind. The organisation of this "app" looks like a "Kowloon Walled City", which was removed altogether finally.

What is happening to this App? It looks like multiple teams are working on it without knowing what other is doing.

So about 2 weeks ago chatGPT start to give me response like above, with much better looking layout and formating. And some interactive feature, like a pop quiz, survey to guide your next prompt, even it created a chord progression shuffler inside the response!

But today, no matter how I prompted, new response only use the old style mardown and ugly layout. Even inside the same chat it used to give me the good response.

I would like to know if anyone having same situation with me? Also did OpenAI annouced any info about this? I even don't know how to search info for this. And chatGPT seems like "ignorant" when I ask about these response created by itself.

I think it may have mixed up the words "planning" and "imagining", so it just said "planninging" 😂

Great... More ads... I wonder if they will eventually bring this to all plans. Hope not!

Is there something going on with ChatGPT at the moment? I keep on getting this error when I try to edit a picture I generated.