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OpenAI Pot Complains That Google Kettle Is Black

Gmail debuted in 2004 homely but wonderfully simple (which I'd argue was Google's original, but now long-lost UI brand). ChatGPT's original incarnation was attractive-in-today's-minimalist-fad-way and wonderfully simple.

OpenAI Pot Complains That Google Kettle Is Black

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Gmail debuted in 2004 homely but wonderfully simple (which I'd argue was Google's original, but now long-lost UI brand).

ChatGPT's original incarnation was attractive-in-today's-minimalist-fad-way and wonderfully simple.

(ChatGPT's original incarnation still exists, in the form of the hard-to-find-if-you-don't-already-have-it-installed Coke ChatGPT Classic, just like how Gmail, after Google started needlessly complicating...

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Gmail debuted in 2004 homely but wonderfully simple (which I'd argue was Google's original, but now long-lost UI brand). ChatGPT's original incarnation was attractive-in-today's-minimalist-fad-way and wonderfully simple. Thibault Sottiaux, the OpenAI genius in charge of Codex and the new ChatGPT Homer Simpson car, on Twitter/X: I don't come often to GMail [ sic ] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around the top right corner.

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  • (ChatGPT's original incarnation still exists, in the form of the hard-to-find-if-you-don't-already-have-it-installed Coke ChatGPT Classic, just like how Gmail, after Google started needlessly complicating...

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Thibault Sottiaux, the OpenAI genius in charge of Codex and the new ChatGPT Homer Simpson car, on Twitter/X: I don't come often to GMail [ sic ] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around the top right corner. I mean, he's right about Google's zero-taste just-keep-cramming-shit-in approach to Gmail, but it's almost hard to believe he could post this without any self-awareness that it's the exact same approach his Codex team has applied to ChatGPT.

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