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The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell
Confirmed
In Short: OpenAI has updated ChatGPT with a new 'Intelligent UI' that generates visual elements to enhance user interactions.
On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled an 'Intelligent UI' update for ChatGPT, which now includes visual, custom elements to answer user questions.
For instance, when asked about a San Francisco apartment affordability calculator, ChatGPT provided a tool with sliders to adjust income and expenses, showing the percentage of take-home pay different units would cost.
Another feature allows users to explore airplane seat layouts, with the ability to tap any seat on the map for more details and highlight exit rows in green.
Aarush Selvan, a product manager at OpenAI, noted that the design team focused on determining when visual elements add value without cluttering the interface.
However, not every ChatGPT answer will include a chart or graphic; the update aims to enhance user experience selectively.
When asked to generate a diagram of a slug, ChatGPT produced an anatomy-focused visual with buttons for each part, from upper tentacles to the muscular foot.
The update also includes a new feature called Sketch, allowing users to draw a doodle within ChatGPT and then instruct it to generate an image based on that sketch.
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, adding a new way to prompt image generation by drawing a doodle.
The update is available for ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users on desktop, mobile, and web.
Common Sense Media called on OpenAI to restrict access to users 18 and older until it can offer a 'safe, developmentally appropriate experience.'
What's confirmed
- On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled an 'Intelligent UI' update for ChatGPT, which now includes visual, custom elements to answer user questions.
- For instance, when asked about a San Francisco apartment affordability calculator, ChatGPT provided a tool with sliders to adjust income and expenses, showing the percentage of take-home pay different units would cost.
- Another feature allows users to explore airplane seat layouts, with the ability to tap any seat on the map for more details and highlight exit rows in green.
- Aarush Selvan, a product manager at OpenAI, noted that the design team focused on determining when visual elements add value without cluttering the interface.
- However, not every ChatGPT answer will include a chart or graphic; the update aims to enhance user experience selectively.
- When asked to generate a diagram of a slug, ChatGPT produced an anatomy-focused visual with buttons for each part, from upper tentacles to the muscular foot.
- The update also includes a new feature called Sketch, allowing users to draw a doodle within ChatGPT and then instruct it to generate an image based on that sketch.
- OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, adding a new way to prompt image generation by drawing a doodle.
- The update is available for ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users on desktop, mobile, and web.
What's still developing
- If a user isn’t interested in visuals, they can tell ChatGPT to generate fewer of those outputs.
- That may no longer be the case soon, as OpenAI overhauls how ChatGPT answers prompts.
- "You HAVE to be a substitute for a real person because no one is there for me,” she tells the chatbot.
- The problem is that if you ask Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude to plan a multi-day trip to Tokyo, you will probably get a generic list of tourist attractions.
- Jakub Pachocki, who leads research at the company behind ChatGPT, laid out the warning in an essay titled 'An Alien Mind', posted on OpenAI's own website.
- On September 10, Anthropic published a 154-page threat intelligence report documenting nine months of AI misuse — December 2025 to August 2026.
- Anthropic calls this “uplift”: The AI capability boost measured in speed, scale, and depth of harm.
- Start a new ChatGPT conversation and attach a clear, well-lit photo of yourself or the people you want pictured.
- The president told reporters afterward he is depending on the AI companies to keep up their “tremendous self-policing,” rather than throw new regulations at them.
- Adam Raine died in April after months of sharing his suicidal ideations with ChatGPT, according to a new lawsuit from his family Two grieving parents in California are pointing the blame at ChatGPT for their 16-year-old son’s death by suicide.
- Adam, who killed himself on April 11, had been communicating with a ChatGPT bot for months, opening up to it about his suicidal ideations and struggles.
- The images “were posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said in a post on X.