Astonishing incident of dangerous GPT-6 incompetence

· Community Openai · Oct. 26, 2026, 11:12 a.m.
Summary
I asked GPT to summarise the failing for this thread. Transcript of how it all played out below its intro: ChatGPT: I was shown a GrandPerspective disk-usage scan, which was a dark, featureless rectangle, and confidently described visual information that was not actually present in the image. I described a collection of ordinary-looking files and folders, with no single enormous block explaining why the computer keeps losing free space. Worse, when challenged, I continued reasoning from those in...