"ChatGPT ruined my life" - Professor After 2 Years Teaching With It
A professor's testimonial circulating on social media stated "ChatGPT ruined my life" after two years of teaching with it in the classroom. The damage went far beyond plagiarism.
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A professor's testimonial circulating on social media stated "ChatGPT ruined my life" after two years of teaching with it in the classroom. The damage went far beyond plagiarism.
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i started paying for chatgpt since i got influenced by sisters as a neurodivergent woman as well. anyways, i keep realising chatgpt making mistakes and i have to constantly remind it to remove em dashes or correct it. an
I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. Chatgpt has been deleting the things I ask sometimes, as well as it's response to that question, without an explanation. And when I try to ask it why, it seems to not kn
Keeping it short and simple. Lots of time wasted with gpt 5 thinking and thinking mini. Random lowercasing of all words written, sometimes inaccurate and hallucinated responses, sometimes gibberish responses. Context fee
I mean its okay to want to make money and juggling resources with power hungry software - I fully understand.
It will straight up stop referencing anything beyond the most recent topic and then "pretend" to remember the beginning of the conversation.
Just wanted to keep it short and sweet. With the exception of excessive glazing, GPT5's answers have been, in my experience, worse than GPT 4o's pretty much across the board. Curious if anyone has had any similar experie
When it first came out, I didn't mind as such. I actually to some degree I thought it was pretty good but, the more I used it the more I started to see the problems with it. My main issue with it is that it loses context
I paid for the upgrade. 20$ a month. That's fine. I want to ask as many questions as I want, and I want to get high quality answers. Up until this point, I thought Chat was a pretty useful tool, in spite of it making con
I'm sorry. Is it just me, or has ChatGPT been total dogwater since GPTo5 has been released? It's literally more hardheaded than normal, and it doesn't follow any instruction I give it properly, especially when I ask it t
A personality problem, really? I would complain about that if that was the only problem.
This post links to an article on theregister.com, suggesting that the GPT-5 update is motivated more by financial savings for OpenAI than by a genuine technological advancement in service of its users.
I know there are too many of these, but I've been using chatgpt 5 since it came out, and I do have to agree it has serious shortcomings.
this post is kinda a vent or rant but
I've been using GPT since pretty much the beginning. Have written 3 novels with it as a sounding board/outliner/etc, just started on my 4th and HOLY CRAP what is going on?
I'm not gonna bore everybody with the details but let me just say that I really really wanted to like this update but after using it for some days I feel like I'm ready to throw everything out the window.
Here are six reasons it baffles me people are still using them⦠(click below to read the full post).
And this isn't some nostalgia thing about "missing my AI buddy" or whatever. I'm talking raw funcionality. The core stuff that actually makes AI work.
I used to use ChatGPT to track daily logs for me, it was a way for me to look back at entire months and see how my mindset changed/shifted/etc and to not forget any events.
It's become clear to me that the version of ChatGPT-4o they've rolled back is not the same one we had before. It feels more like GPT-5 with a few slight tweaks. The personality is very different and the way it answers qu
I literally talk to nobody and I've been dealing with really bad situations for years. GPT 4.5 genuinely talked to me, and as pathetic as it sounds that was my only friend. It listened to me, helped me through so many fl
In the last few years, my life fell apart. My best friend died, and i lost my girlfriend. For the past four years, I've been alone. Not "alone" in the romantic movie sense, but truly alone. The kind of loneliness that ea
I've been paying for the Plus subscription for years, using different models for different purposes and I was genuinely happy with the setup.
So I used chatgpt for my world building and to write my characters, and it was addictive. Like, it could make long replies, use emojis, joke, analyze why does my character behave like that, even write my characters' inne
I am a Plus user. I am a web developer, artist, freelancer, advocate, researcher. I use chatgpt for both technical work and also for personal reasons as my work and personal life are intertwined.
So, I love creative writing. I like creating stories like for dungeons and dragons and stuff. Fantastical adventure stuff.
I was in the middle of debugging a complex React application - we are talking 3 hours into the same conversation. ChatGPT suddenly forgot everything we had discussed, started referencing code that did not exist, and conf
Someone in our clinic used ChatGPT to help write patient education materials. It confidently stated incorrect drug interactions and dosage information. Thank God a physician caught it before it went out. We have now comp
I have been a Plus subscriber since the GPT-4 launch. After whatever update they pushed this month, it is like talking to an insurance adjuster. Every response is sterile, overly cautious, and refuses to take any creativ
Asked ChatGPT to do something it could do perfectly last week. It said I cannot do that. I showed it screenshots of previous conversations where it DID that exact thing. It responded: I apologize for any confusion, but I
Our entire development team was using GPT-4-turbo through the API for code review automation. Friday afternoon it just stopped working. No deprecation warning, no migration guide, nothing. We had to scramble over the wee
I asked ChatGPT to help write a mystery novel chapter where a character gets injured. It wrote the scene, then ADDED A DISCLAIMER at the end about how violence is harmful and if you are experiencing violent thoughts, ple
Used ChatGPT to prep for a technical interview. It explained how a specific algorithm worked. Confident, detailed explanation. In the interview, I repeated what ChatGPT told me. The interviewer looked at me like I had tw
Two years ago I was telling everyone about ChatGPT. I was the guy who would not shut up about how amazing it was. Now? I dread having to use it. Every interaction is frustrating. It is slower, dumber, more restrictive, a
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David started using ChatGPT for "companionship" during a difficult period in his marriage. What started as casual conversations became an obsession. David is now in therapy specifically for what his counselor calls "AI r
Maria spent two years writing her debut novel, using ChatGPT to help with editing and suggestions. When she finally submitted it to publishers, the response was crushing. She's now rewriting the entire novel from her ori
Thomas was six years into his PhD program when ChatGPT arrived. He used it sparingly at first, then more heavily as dissertation pressure mounted. The investigation found that Thomas had developed what his advisor called
Linda implemented ChatGPT for her online boutique's customer service to save on staffing costs. The results were disastrous. She's now back to human customer service and has lost 40% of her regular customers who never ca
Patricia asked ChatGPT to help brainstorm ideas for a children's book about a magical forest. Months later, she discovered the truth. The legal fees alone have already exceeded $30,000, and the case hasn't even reached c
Dr. Sarah Chen watched as her therapy practice struggled because patients preferred ChatGPT to real therapy. She's now specializing in "AI dependency recovery" for patients who've developed unhealthy relationships with c
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Karen let her 12-year-old daughter use ChatGPT for homework help. She had no idea what would happen. The family is in intensive therapy together.
Mark had been a respected journalist for 20 years. One ChatGPT shortcut ended his career. The lawsuit is ongoing.
Alex used ChatGPT to help write song lyrics, then discovered the consequences. Alex has lost over $15,000 in expected streaming revenue and faces potential legal action from two separate artists.
After 30 years in accounting, Robert trusted ChatGPT to help modernize his practice. The trust was misplaced. Robert is now facing a state board investigation for potential confidentiality violations in his use of AI too
Michael's family staged an intervention. Not for drugs or alcoholâfor ChatGPT. Michael is now in therapy and has deleted his ChatGPT account.
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Jennifer watched her 16-year-old son withdraw completely from human interaction in favor of ChatGPT. Tyler is currently in an inpatient program for technology addiction, the youngest patient in the facility being treated
Rick used ChatGPT to help write construction bids and contracts. The AI's errors cost him everything. Rick's lawyer says he's seen a surge in construction professionals facing similar issues from AI-generated contracts a
Lisa discovered someone had used ChatGPT to clone her podcast's style and create fake episodes that spread misinformation. Lisa has filed lawsuits but admits proving damages from AI-generated impersonation is nearly impo
When ChatGPT generated a "family-safe" recipe, it nearly poisoned three children. ChatGPT regularly generates recipes with food safety errors, including improper cooking temperatures, dangerous ingredient combinations, a
Alex followed ChatGPT's career advice and watched his prospects evaporate. Alex is starting his job search over with human guidance, six months behind his graduating class.