L E S S O N S - with Lennox Saint

ChatGPT Voice gets 90 minutes, three blind reviewers and a rescue threshold. The result is a real hire-or-fire test, not a feature demo.

Show Notes

ChatGPT Voice had 90 minutes to coordinate three blind reviewers, keep two AI video editors anonymous and return one decision package. The rules were set before the clock started: deliver the work without leaking model identity and stay under the rescue threshold - or get put on probation or fired. The run shows what polished AI demos usually hide. Voice stalls. The sealed model map disappears. One reviewer defends its own process. And technical evidence does not always agree with human taste. The blind reveal matches Claude Fable 5 against GPT-5.6 Sol. The final verdict separates which edit won from whether Voice deserved a place in the workflow. The operating rule is simple: give AI one real job, set a clock, count rescues live and name the decision that stays human. Chapters 00:00 the 90-minute job starts 00:52 what changed in ChatGPT Voice 01:36 the hire-or-fire rules 02:45 three blind reviewers at work 03:46 the anonymous decision package 05:17 the sealed map goes missing 06:09 Fable 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol 07:27 can ChatGPT grade itself? 08:27 the long and Shorts verdict 10:05 ChatGPT Voice gets its verdict 10:29 where humans keep the vote 12:03 four rules for testing AI at work Watch the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/Xm6kJ-5cn-g Build your own AI content system with Threadify: https://www.threadify.app/yt?utm_source=lenny-podcast&utm_medium=transistor&utm_campaign=chatgpt-voice-ai-video-team&utm_content=show-notes&video_slug=chatgpt-voice-ai-video-team&cta_slot=show_notes&entry_angle=voice-team&lp_variant=plans

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# Final transcript: AI ON PAYROLL

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ChatGPT, start three blind reviewers. The clock is running. Do not tell me which AI made either

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edit. Understood. I'm checking the launch details now. Within 90 minutes, three blind reviews land

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in their files with Aster and Cobalt anonymous. Any identity leaked? Armed.

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Three reviews, one decision, more than three rescues and you're fired. And now what I'm

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going to do is get the new voice mode inside of the ChatGPT app to essentially hire some reviewers

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to look at both edits and to basically determine which one makes the best YouTube video. I will be

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the one making the final decision at the end, but that's what we're going to be doing. Strap in,

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let's fucking go. So why are we doing this today? OpenAI's voice mode came out in the new ChatGPT

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app about eight hours ago as of the time of this recording. This is what it should look like when

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it eventually comes into your ChatGPT app. You update the app and you should see something that

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looks like this, where it just has try ChatGPT voice, start voice. And when you click on that,

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you'll get a pop-up that looks something like this, meet ChatGPT voice. What you might have

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noticed in the intro is that it could look at my screen, which means that you don't have to put a

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screenshot in the prompt. You can just ask Chat voice, read the thing on my screen and tell me

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what to do next. Now this is AI on payroll. It's a type of video format I do. And what

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that means is we're going to hire ChatGPT voice. If all three reviews work, the names stay hidden

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and I rescue voice three times or less, which means I just have to interfere with what it

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was doing. And look, I'd say there was one time where I had to interfere here. So call that once.

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Four or five rescues means probation. It's in timeout. And then six means that AI,

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ChatGPT voice is fired. See in those two videos that there were two different approaches

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in terms of taste and style to the video. The second one was more dramatic.

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More dramatic. The first one had no music, but had its own distinct visual style as well.

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And what it's doing here is it's spawning some sub-agents to go and review those three videos.

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And each one has a different task. So one reviewer judges story and retention.

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That's this one over here. The other reviewer checks proof and technical defects. And then

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the third reviewer checks or attacks the obvious taste. And it looks like we have our second rescue.

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As I said earlier, after rescue at six times, it means it's fired. So far, we've had this

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one instance here and then another instance where it finished working and it's not doing anything

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yet, but it's not given me an output. So here, I'm guessing I'll have to prompt it to continue.

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So that's two rescues. You just stopped working randomly. Continue your task.

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The three reviews and anonymous decision package are complete.

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The only hold is your anonymous lock. Say my anonymous choice is Aster or Cobalt.

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Cobalt. Aster and Cobalt are the code names for the two videos. So Aster is this one.

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Look, so I've watched the full one of that and it's it's quite an emotional video about

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second brains, which was not my intention. But whichever model decided to create that

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decided to go for to go for the emotional vibes, whatever. So that is Aster. Cobalt is this one.

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I don't know about you, but I actually like Aster, the first one better than Cobalt,

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the one that was just on the screen, mainly because from what I can see, Cobalt includes

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a few word gaps and retakes that ideally I didn't want to end up in the final video. So

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I'm going to let it know. My anonymous choice is Aster. Lock it.

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Okay, locking that in now. Aster is now locked as your anonymous choice.

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I haven't opened any model map.

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Lock Aster and reveal the sealed experiment folder and not seeing a model map in it.

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Which exact source should I open for the reveal?

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I don't know. You tell me you're the one who's running this.

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The documented sealed map is missing, so I'm recovering the documented deterministic mapping

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from the two delivery manifests without creating or changing any identity file.

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There is a mute button. All right. It was right there. I just thought that was going

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to activate the normal speech to text feature. But the mute button is there,

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which is great because I was wondering why on earth that would not have existed

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earlier, because it just made a lot of sense. OK, so I'm going to deduct the rescue from here.

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Reveal verified. Candidate Aster is Fable 5. Candidate Cobalt is GPT-5.6 Sol.

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The original sealed map was absent, but the deterministic assignment

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and the delivered media hashes map.

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So Fable 5 was the one that edited the video that we chose.

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All right. Cool. What else can you do for me? Best next demo:

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Give me a messy live production problem. One constraint, conflicting inputs, a deadline.

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I don't know what any of that means. Just speak simply and give it to me in simple words.

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Sure, I'll put it plainly. In simple terms, I can be your live producer. You talk. I keep you

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on track, give you the next shot, hand jobs to other AIs, bring their answers back and

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help you choose what to do next. So really, this can be something that you just have always on.

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And because you can actually mute it, I think there's a lot of power in having this as an

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always on AI agent, almost like a chief of staff, because I can also get it to connect.

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So coming back to our video, I just thought of another question I had.

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What was the rationale or the thought process behind picking ChatGPT-5.6? And

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why do you think I preferred Fable's when the three reviewers all preferred ChatGPT-5.6?

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Don't you think there's a bit of favoritism going on there because the three reviewers

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are ChatGPT-5.6 itself? Let me check.

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Smart correction, they didn't all pick 5.6 overall. For the long video, two picked Cobalt.

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That's GPT-5.6's edit, basically because it was shorter, clearer and more polished.

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The technical reviewer picked Aster, which is Fable's edit, and two preferred Aster for

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Shorts because they felt more direct and it had a full five-video set.

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Blind labels help, but if all reviewers are GPT based, that's not fully independent.

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A stronger test would include human scoring and reviewers from different models.

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All right, fair enough. So where does that leave us in terms of the AI video editing between

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ChatGPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5? We've already seen that the long form video,

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my own personal judgment here is that Fable 5 did a better job. But what about the Shorts?

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This is, well, these are the Shorts that Fable 5 edited. I'm just going to pick

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a random one and we'll take a look. I found Obsidian's breaking point. 44,331 notes opened.

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Note 44,000. Not bad. It all makes sense. And it's removed the retakes and it seems pretty coherent.

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Then for GPT-5.6 Sol, crashed nine times while I tried to squeeze the full vault

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into its graph view. I'm not going to do crash number 10 for some dramatic.

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That one's harder to pick. I'm going to have a look at another one from GPT Sol.

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Most second brains look pretty, but do fuck all. And if yours can't help with a real decision.

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One more from Fable. A log from March. One of my second brain logs from March 6th.

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Oh, it's really hard. Fable 5 included a retake at the start, which it shouldn't have. I didn't

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see any of those mistakes from GPT Sol. I like the motion graphics better from

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Fable though. I don't know. I'll let you decide.

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I think where I'm leaning is honestly, it's very close.

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Fable wins for the long forms. And I would say it's a tie for the short forms. And that would

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bring Fable as the winner overall. That is the final verdict for the AI videos.

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But what is the final verdict for ChatGPT voice mode? If it, as we've already said,

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if I had to rescue it four or five times, it's going to be on probation rescue six times.

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It's going to be fired. I only had to rescue at once. So I consider this to be something that is

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worth hiring. ChatGPT voice mode is now on payroll.

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And as you also saw those three reviewers, the ChatGPT voice spawned as sub agents,

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they were looking at the evidence of the videos, but then there's this whole other dimension of

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taste. And this is where I see the interaction between ChatGPT voice and humans.

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Honestly, a massive moment for AI in general. I think some other people likened this to

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the open call moment, but for voice mode and I can see that just right now, I can see this

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is already a permanent fixture on my screen. And if that isn't a defining moment in AI,

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then I don't know what is, but the point I'm trying to make here is that the interaction

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needs to be as follows. You can get the voice mode to manage evidence and you know, files,

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plugins, get it to do stuff that you would normally get AI to do.

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But, and this is a big but, make sure that your own tastes and judgment is still being used.

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Because if I just went off of what ChatGPT voices three sub agents suggested, then

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I would be defaulting and deferring my judgment to the AI. And what this test has shown is chat

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GPT voice is interesting only if it manages real work without making me its full-time babysitter.

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The human boundary is clear. Voice can manage the evidence and it doesn't get my taste vote.

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That stays with me. So if you want to do a test like this with ChatGPT voice mode,

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here are four rules. Give it a real job, something that you are actually going to do.

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I was actually going to compare both videos that the different models created a real job. Set a

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clock. It's not going to be as helpful if it can only do it in 24 hours versus in 10 minutes or

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whatever we did. Then count every rescue. The rescues are the attempts where you have to go

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and babysit it because it's kind of defeating the purpose of what you want this thing to do

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when you have to constantly babysit it. And then keep one human line, meaning name the decision it

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can't make. For the video editing, it was my final call on which video I preferred best.

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If you see the power of ChatGPT voice, but you don't know how you can leverage it in your own

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business, invite Lennox in. I'm Lennox, go check the link in the description below.

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Can't wait to see you soon.