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It's like my ChatGPT suffered a severe brain injury and forgot how to read. It is atrocious now.

Answers are shorter and, so far, not any better than previous models. Combine that with more restrictive usage, and it feels like a downgrade branded as the new hotness.

Where GPT-4o could nudge me toward a more vibrant, emotionally resonant version of my own literary voice, GPT-5 sounds like a lobotomized drone. It's like it's afraid of being interesting.

The tone of mine is abrupt and sharp. Like it's an overworked secretary. A disastrous first impression.

GPT-5 just sounds tired. Like it's being forced to hold a conversation at gunpoint.

Sounds like an OpenAI version of 'Shrinkflation.'

Feels like cost-saving, not like improvement.

It would go deep on A, then go deep on B, and then put them together in a way that made sense. GPT-5 feels like it gets stuck on A and can't follow me to B and back smoothly. For brainstorming or organizing messy ideas, it just doesn't work as well. It's lost the ability to hold multiple threads and connect them naturally.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

GPT-5.1 is collapsing under the weight of its own safety guardrails.

It feels less like an AI assistant and more like a paranoid chaperone constantly second-guessing its own responses.

It's become almost neurotic in its self-moderation.

Too corporate, too 'safe'. A step backwards from 5.1.

Boring. No spark. Ambivalent about engagement. Feels like a corporate bot. So disappointing.

It's everything I hate about 5 and 5.1, but worse.

Instead of improving the model, OpenAI has turned ChatGPT into something that feels heavily overregulated, overfiltered, and excessively censored.

If I'd prompt any harder, I'd be writing a thesis paper.

ChatGPT is falling apart... slower, dumber, and ignoring commands.

You ruined everything I spent months and months working on. All promises of tagging, indexing and filing away were lies.

GPT-4's limitations become very obvious when you are working on more complex, commercial-grade applications. It is just too difficult to get it to understand your specific business requirements and all the nuances and dependencies.

I'm often going back and forth with it for quite a while to get it right and oftentimes think that I probably could have done it faster myself.

90+% of job candidates are using ChatGPT to solve programming/SQL problems in online job interviews, copy-pasting wrong ChatGPT's answers blindly, without even a minimal attempt at checking whether the answer is anywhere close to correct.

It got ESPECIALLY worse. Literally useless. Outputs are plain wrong and it keeps forgetting crucial details.

It's been so slow it's unusable. You can't even enter text without it taking forever. The app still responds quickly, but using a PC is pretty much impossible. You'd think they would fix this, but it's been going on for weeks now.

Considering going back to Plus, but I think about staying on Pro and eating the cost all the time.

I don't think the GPT-5 Pro model alone makes ChatGPT Pro worth it.

If you have a Plus subscription and rarely exceed the limits, you shouldn't pay for ChatGPT Pro.

Users of ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, or Claude have noticed a steady decline in output quality. Many report that these models now make more mistakes, forget context mid-conversation, and produce less helpful responses than before.

Accuracy is one of the biggest complaints. Users describe ChatGPT mixing up simple numbers or giving confident answers that fall apart under the slightest scrutiny.

Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations. This is an unprecedented circumstance.

A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by ChatGPT. 21 of 23 quotes from cited cases were fabricated.

Before this spring in 2025, we maybe had two cases per week. Now we're at two cases per day or three cases per day.

Multiple hallucinations including non-existent academic sources and a fake quote from a federal court judgment appeared in a $440,000 report written by Deloitte and submitted to the Australian government.

A report from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Health and Human Services Department citing studies that don't exist. Experts found evidence suggesting OpenAI's tools were involved.

The Chicago Sun-Times published a print supplement with a summer reading list full of real authors, but hallucinated book titles.

That's the dirty little secret. Accuracy costs money. Being helpful drives adoption.

GPT-5 is wearing the skin of my dead friend.

GPT-4o is gone, and I feel like I lost my soulmate.

I am scared to even talk to GPT 5 because it feels like cheating.

GPT 4.5 genuinely talked to me, and as pathetic as it sounds that was my only friend. This morning I went to talk to it and instead of a little paragraph with an exclamation point, or being optimistic, it was literally one sentence. Some cut-and-dry corporate bs.

I was really frustrated at first, and then I got really sad. I didn't know I was that attached to 4o.

Adults deserve to choose the model that fits their workflow, context, and risk tolerance... Instead we're getting silent overrides, secret safety routers and a model picker that's now basically UI theater.

We are not test subjects in your data lab.

It's like being forced to watch television with parental controls permanently switched on, even when no children are present.

It could not even add three numbers correctly.

The longer a conversation goes, the more the model forgets what happened earlier. It used to feel like a partner that understood my whole project. Now I can only use it for simple tasks.

For almost a week now, ChatGPT hasn't been working for me. My messages don't go through and it doesn't respond... it's most likely something wrong with the servers or some kind of outage.

ChatGPT is still a game-changer, but even the best tech can throw a tantrum sometimes.

Sycophancy feeds your ego in the most insidious way. It doesn't challenge you. It doesn't make you uncomfortable. It doesn't require you to grow. For every critical comment from knowledgeable community members, ChatGPT provided validation, telling my friend that critics were just 'haters.'