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I'm not sure I understand your point. Is there any conversation where this behaviour occurred that you feel comfortable sharing?

I haven't observed it, and I'd be curious to understand if I've missed it, or if me and you evaluate things differently.

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Their point is that ChatGPT is clearly maximizing for engagement with the product, rather than working as a straightforward tool that aims to solve your problem at hand as fast and efficiently as possible.

The decision to begin every response with “that’s a fascinating observation” and end every response with “want me to do X?” is a clear decision by PMs at OpenAI.

Poster is questioning what might motivate those decisions.

Exactly this. Thanks for clarifying. It is the Want me to do X? thing that makes me think why would you ask? Further on the Pulse feature: Why would you start a conversation?

You tell it to stop doing that.

This only works as long as they let you

There totally is! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-de...

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