goog 5 stars purely for having the best newsletter signup UI in the game; the people that want to sign up can easily do so after reading a bit of the article and those who don't don't have to deal with popups and can just scroll past. good articles too

This is just great hits the mark and… This is just great hits the mark and wakes me up to my own reality every time I read it keep it up truly inspirational

Solid source of self improvement/self discovery content Ideapod is a trusted source for self improvement and self discovery content. Its a regular stop on my weekly reading list and I've referred multiple people to their content. Majority of content is solid.

Used ChatGPT to write articles and make up fictional people and memories. Had an article titled "People who are truly happy usually exhibit these 10 traits" allegedly written by a "Lachlan Brown" a day ago (August 15, 2023) show up in the recommendations on my phone app. When I got to item 7, the item headers started showing that they were interactions between a user giving ChatGPT prompts like "Do the next one. Be counterintuitive." or "Do the last one, with a personal touch." The result was that the anecdotes about characters like "Uncle Rob" were completely fabricated, and Ideapod does not indicate that the articles may be partially fictional. The inclusion of the chat prompts also means that the ChatGPT output for that portion of the article wasn't even edited for quality or accuracy (as accurate as a computer program can be about human habits and personality and emotions), if obvious mistakes like this made it into the published article.

I've always been delighted and excited whenever a new article is out, because almost all of the time those articles help you with your daily life, they give you insights into your own life. I think so that their articles are always helpful in one way or another. There are many topics of articles like friendship, relationships etc. You get to know yourself better and you're also able to get to about others through the behaviours mentioned in the articles, it's like an eye opener.