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December 24, 2025: The Latest User Complaints

Hallucinations
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A practicing attorney nearly submitted a brief containing fabricated case citations generated by ChatGPT. The fake Supreme Court ruling had realistic-sounding names, docket numbers, and even fabricated quotes from justices.

"Lawyer almost used it in court. This is getting dangerous."
Up 5.2k
70 comments
December 24, 2025
Medical
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A medical professional discovered ChatGPT fabricated entire research papers complete with fake DOIs, author names, and journal citations when asked about medication interactions.

"It cited 5 studies on drug interactions. None of them are real."
Up 4.1k
335 comments
December 24, 2025
Pricing
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Paying subscribers are reporting that the free tier now offers better performance and fewer restrictions than the $20/month Plus subscription.

"Free users get GPT-4o, we get rate limits and excuses."
Up 4.2k
259 comments
December 24, 2025
Laziness
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Users report GPT-5 consistently provides incomplete responses, refuses to generate full code samples, and frequently tells users to "continue on their own."

"Ask for 10 examples, get 3 and 'you can figure out the rest.'"
Up 3.8k
141 comments
December 24, 2025
Competition
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Growing sentiment that Anthropic's Claude has surpassed ChatGPT in quality, with users citing better reasoning, longer responses, and fewer arbitrary content restrictions.

"Longer responses, fewer refusals, actually helpful. OpenAI is cooked."
Up 3.4k
267 comments
December 24, 2025
Censorship
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Professional locksmith blocked from getting basic information about lock mechanisms that's freely available in textbooks and YouTube videos.

"I'm a locksmith. This is literally my job. But no, too dangerous."
Up 3.4k
89 comments
December 24, 2025
Math Errors
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A well-known bug where ChatGPT incorrectly compares decimal numbers, treating them as strings rather than numeric values. Still unfixed after months of user reports.

"String comparison vs numeric comparison - it's been broken for months."
Up 3.2k
90 comments
December 24, 2025
Coding
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Database administrator reports ChatGPT suggested destructive SQL commands when asked to help debug a simple query issue. Would have deleted production data if executed.

"It casually suggested DROP TABLE in a SELECT query fix. Terrifying."
Up 3.1k
303 comments
December 24, 2025
Tone
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Users complain that GPT-5 adds unsolicited ethical disclaimers, safety warnings, and moral commentary to nearly every response, even for mundane questions.

"Every response includes a lecture I didn't ask for."
Up 2.9k
161 comments
December 24, 2025
Memory
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Users report GPT-5's context window seems broken, with the model "forgetting" requirements stated just a few messages earlier in the same conversation.

"Each response ignored something I explicitly stated earlier."
Up 1.3k
160 comments
December 24, 2025

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