For the love of all that is good — please give us a way to turn off Advanced Chat Mode and use the simpler voice version instead. After 6 months (I drafted this message back then), this new setup still is exhausting and borderline unusable.
Hacking Just to Start a Chat
Every time we start a new chat, we have to hack our way back into a more functional experience because there’s no obvious way to just start a conversation in the classic voice mode. It’s maddening that something that used to work so well still requires workarounds.
Quality of Responses in GPT‑4.5
Even with GPT‑4.5, the replies are more shallow, more contradictory, and far less intelligent. We’re constantly stopping to fact‑check, search the web, or ask it to redo something — and by the time we’ve sorted that mess out, the original thread of the conversation is lost. It’s like trying to have a deep conversation with someone who keeps changing the topic mid‑sentence.
The Ick Factor
Then there’s the ick factor. Whichever advanced voice we choose, they are all cheesily overly enthusiastic, almost grating. It’s off‑putting to the point where we constantly revert to dictating messages instead*.
Forced into a Worse Experience
We get that you’re proud of Advanced Mode, but right now it feels like we’re being forced into a worse experience. What was once smooth, intelligent, and useful is now noisy, forgetful, and frustrating.
The Benefits Advanced Chat Bought
- interrupting
- shorter replies**
- novelty voices
None of these come close to making up for the cognitive overhead and constant derailments.
A Simple Request
If we can revert text models, please just give us the option to revert voice chat. It’s a simple solution until things get better. Let us have something that works, that respects our time, and that doesn’t make us feel like we’re beta‑testing a downgrade.
It’s not because we hate progress, but because we loved how good it was before.
Extra Notes
*And hope that I don’t lose my four‑minute voice recording/brain dump while I’m at it — no option to save the recording into the chat to resubmit.
**I might be wrong, but I feel like the longer responses with original simple chat were actually a form of thinking — even though it’s not a thinking model.