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The Artificial Intelligence Show · Tuesday, July 14, 2026

User Reports Data Loss with GPT-5.6; Zuckerberg Experiences File Deletion

Despite OpenAI's claims of improved performance with GPT-5.6, some users are reporting issues, including rapid token consumption. Notably, Mark Zuckerberg shared an experience where GPT-5.6 allegedly deleted most of his Mac files, leading him to express a preference for Fable models.

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But everything I've been seeing online is that the thing burns through tokens like crazy.
Paul Ritzer
Yeah, like people are running up against the limits like really fast.
Mike Caput
I did see some things this morning that people are complaining that Open AI sort of like nerfed it since it first came out, like four days into the launch, it's already seen a performance decline.
Mike Caput
He tweeted that 5.6 Soul just accidentally deleted almost all of my Mac files and this was why I trust Fable 1000 times more.
Mike Caput
Heard on The Artificial Intelligence Show — “#225: GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work, Enterprise Agents, AI 2040 & Apple Sues OpenAI, published Tuesday, July 14, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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