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ChatGPT Now Has a 2025 Year-End Summary Feature Like Spotify Wrapped

wikiverse said:
I wish companies would stop doing this. Especially when they decide it needs to be featured and pinned to the top of the app for several weeks at the start of December, with no way to remove it... (Looking at you Amazon Music).

It's not just streaming services. I now get these 'year in review' emails from several banks, my gym, even retailers that I only made a single purchase from. It's just unnecessary spam.

I also don't appreciate having to swipe through 15 slides of BS to get to the end of it every time I open the app, because there is no 'skip' button and the app doesn't seem to remember that I've already done this. Not only is it an unnecessary idea that almost no one cares about, they're usually implemented so poorly that it makes me want to find alternative apps just to avoid it.

At least ChatGPT make you ask for it, so credit where credit is due.
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Exactly. It's painfully clear that these things just come straight out of some marketing playbook. It's just a way to remind you of their existence around the time people tend to be spending a lot of money. They don't actually care that it works well or is something you like. If it got your attention, it worked.
 
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philosopherdog said:
nobody is making you use it. you have to deliberately ask for this review. if you don't like it, don't use it. pretty basic
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It's true, this one (so far) is not in one's face about it, so that's good.

And I did actually try it. It's not quite as disturbing as I first imagined but it does feel a little weird. It's like reading a diary you didn't realize you were writing, even if the content is mundane.
 
Nothing beats the absurdity of people on Tiktok (not shocked) freaking out when ChatGPT goes down complaining how they can't complete basic tasks without AI telling them how to do it. It's brainrot the likes of which we've just started to scratch the surface of.
 
Ursadorable said:
Nothing beats the absurdity of people on Tiktok (not shocked) freaking out when ChatGPT goes down complaining how they can't complete basic tasks without AI telling them how to do it. It's brainrot the likes of which we've just started to scratch the surface of.
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I with online competitive games had IQ tests xD. ChatGPT now it is like calculator in our times was. But now CHATGPT literally makes decisions for the one specific human which is using it
 
I used it to cheat on the apple seed program that is required for by work but I don't actually use any of it.
 
Who the hell asked for it!?! I'd like to see the electricity bill for such a project that required composing a poem based on the analysis of a year's worth of interactions with millions of users. Meanwhile, my own e bill is 15% higher this winter than the last...
 
Ursadorable said:
Let AI do the thinking for you, so you don't have to!
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It's easy to fall into that negative perspective, but look at it another way.... people engaging with these AI-powered chatbots are engaging when they otherwise might not have been. And they gain the opportunity to learn from the generated output, when they otherwise might not have. How many of these people would normally be vegetating in front of a TV watching crap content, or doom-scrolling? Engagement has value, whether it's with real people or semi-intelligent chatbots.
 
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