ChatGPT

For the ToTheMoon hosts, ChatGPT is less a model than a daily habit shared by hundreds of millions of people, and the channel keeps checking what is happening to that habit. The same threads return: why the product feels stronger one week and weaker the next, where OpenAI is taking it beyond the chat window, and where the usefulness of an assistant ends once people hand it their health, correspondence and purchases.

The first reviews in 2024 were skeptical. Episode 007 asked why ChatGPT seemed to be “getting dumber”: answer quality fluctuated, features vanished without explanation, and years of user data could disappear on a company decision. Episode 014 weighed the claim that OpenAI had run out of steam and settled on a narrower point: one strong ChatGPT was no longer enough, voice alone does not make a platform, and the product still had to find its place on the phone, the desktop or inside other apps.

By autumn 2025 ChatGPT appears in the episodes as a platform. Episode 078 looked at Pulse, a feed that decides what the user sees first, and warned that the wider the platform, the harder it is to tell a useful recommendation from the platform's own interest. Episode 080 took a cool view of the app store inside the chat: an embedded app wins only where the chat knows more than the app itself. In 2026 the focus moved to memory: episode 104 explained Google's import of ChatGPT conversations by the fact that accumulated context had become the main barrier to switching, and episode 108 noted that ChatGPT increasingly replaces Google for simple tasks while hiding its sources. Episode 164 showed that choosing restaurants and hotels has moved into ChatGPT and that purchases through AI, by Shopify's data, tripled in a year — yet the model still never asks whether its answer helped.