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Tom’s Guide
Technology
Christoph Schwaiger

I asked ChatGPT-5 to take me behind the scenes of its brain — this is what I learned

ChatGPT logo on smartphone next to a laptop.

Despite the wobbly launch, ChatGPT’s latest model GPT-5 brought with it new features, personalities, and integrations. While these are the more prominent developments, I was curious about whether much has changed about the way ChatGPT handles my prompts.

Straight up asking AI bots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to reveal their inner monologue or chain of thought triggers their alarms and you’ll get a reply along the lines of: I’m sorry, I can’t share that, but I can give you some general information about how I work instead.

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