OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

Post by lukas099 » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC

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I've noticed that on a paid (Plus) plan: > If you want, I can also point out the one mistake that causes these [...] > If you want, I can also show one trick used in studios for [...] > If you want, I can also show one placement trick that makes [...]

These are also fantastic hooks for paid product placement (ads). > If you want, I can give you some beverage suggestions that go well with that recipe User > sure > Enjoy a refreshing, ice-cold Coca-Cola (tm)

Post by what » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:18 AM UTC

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Have you used ChatGPT lately? What you describe is not quite what they are doing, they are adding nudges at the end of the follow-up question suggestions. For instance I was researching some IKEA furniture and it gives suggestions for followup, with nudges in parenthesis "IKEA-furniture many people use for this (very cool solution)" and at the end of another question suggestion: "(very simple, but surprisingly effect…

Yes, it very closely parallels the “one weird trick” bait from a decade ago.

Post by what » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:23 AM UTC

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Gemini does the same thing. For every question it looks to extend the conversation into natural follow-up questions, always ending a response with "Would you like to know more about {some important aspect of the answer}?" And...I don't see it as a bad thing. It's trying to encourage use of the tool by reducing the friction to continued conversations, making it an ordinary part of your life by proving that it provides…

My impression is that Gemini does it in a quite natural way. It answers your questions, and then suggests possible related questions that you might ask, which I find useful. But ChatGPT feels extremely baity. Like it doesn't answer your question, but only 80% of it, leaving the other 20% on purpose for the bait. And then when you ask the second question it answers with another incomplete fact leaving things for the b…

Post by Mathnerd314 » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:37 AM UTC

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Gemini does it but not in a clickbaity way. It basically asks, at the end "would you like to know more about this specific or that specific"? Yes, there's some "growth hacking" bs, but prompting the user to ask more questions about details is a far distance from what oAI is doing. I agree it's all bad behavior, but in shades.

I found Gemini to keep asking the same follow-up questions regardless of my responses. In discussing a health topic, it repeatedly offered recipes for healthy snacks - 4 times, before I finally affirmatively said “no, I do not need snack recipes.” It dutifully stopped. Not quite clickbait, but it had very clearly decided where it wanted the conversation to go.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:40 AM UTC

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From the article: "You can see that in the recent iterations of ChatGPT. It has become such a sycophant, and creates answers and options, that you end up engaging with it. That’s juicing growth. Facebook style." This is something I relalized lately. ChatGPT is juicing growth Facebook style. The last time, I asked it a medical question, it answered the question, but ended the answer with something like "Can I tell you…