CHAT GPT 4 Painfully slow, I know why, with a quick solution

Hi everyone!
Same here for days now : very slow response time, often the response just freeze or end up on a network error. Regeneration sometime doesn’t work.
Even with very short prompt where no complicate answer is needed.
Page refresh also take a lot of time in this case, it stay on a loading state forever.

Edit 02.12.2024 : big difference between browsers. So far for me worst performance comes using Brave, best performance when using Chrome

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Same here

I upgraded to the Team Workspace subscription for my department. GPT4 and any custom GPT4 based models do not work anymore. I have to sit and wait for minutes for a simple response or it will just give me a network error. This used to only really happen when my chats got very extensive but now it’s nigh unusable even on a new chat.

3.5 is lightning fast however, we use GPT4 for lots of command line based and general IT work so Tech Support Advisor comes in handy, though not when it doesn’t work lol

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Can also confirm using GPT 4 has been painfully slow for the past few weeks for me. A temporary but tedious solution is to ask ChatGPT questions on the mobile app and switch back to desktop. The performance on the app versions aren’t as bad ,I’m using the ios and ipad versions btw…

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I was so excited to upgrade to 4, and yeah…almost unusable due to the speed. Not the experience I literally paid for!

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the problem is the frontend javascript, there frontend code is painfully slow and clunky it seems they need better frontend engine like angular.

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it continues to be painfully slow, with way too many [Error in Input Stream] errors for a $20/month service

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Thanks for the solution mate =) Just remember a year ago it was really slow, and a year before that… Almost unusable.

Side story: I’ve seen a homeless man take a $20 bill, make a submarine out of it and set sail into the pacific ocean.

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We have the same issue here with ChatGPT Team for our 6 users. I’m finding that I am using Gemini more and more, even though I find some of the answers are incorrect, I just can’t help it as it’s SO much faster at responding. I tried Copilot Pro but I can’t stand it, as it’s non stop “It’s time to move on to another topic” any time you question it, like when it contradicts itself. I’m finding with ChatGPT now I’m constantly having to hit stop just to reply as I can’t wait for the full answer anymore. It’s SO slow at responding writing maybe 2-3 words every sentence. I feel like I’m constantly sitting here watching it reply. I only regret getting the Team version as now my staff has it so kind of hard for me to pull the plug and cancel, but might have to do that anyway as it’s becoming more and more useless I find.

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This slow in the system today is ridiculous. All day long I cannot work.

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Besides the slow service (paid account), the responses are inaccurate and short, even after explicitly telling the model to give me better answers. Since I’m working with technical details, answers seem lazy. So what’s the deal? I don’t think this is only an issue of bandwidth, I think they are limiting the system internally. If this problem doesn’t get fixed in the next few days, I will move to another model very soon.

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Also experiencing extreme slowness on my ChatGPT Teams subscription - entire team is equally impacted. Some on browsers, others on mobile apps, seems to be everywhere regardless of whether cache’s have been cleared.

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Please keep all posts on topic. Off-topic posts will be removed.

Replies that off-topic posts will be removed are considered intimidating to members and an abuse of moderation authority.

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It would be alarming for the Forum if further similar things were to happen.

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So many people are posting off-topic posts that I am reminding them that they will be removed. Talking about the original post is fine but coming here and saying “I canceled my subscription” is not what this topic is for.

Then please act on your own beliefs.

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ChatGPT 3.5 is like when you meet your girlfriend at 20 years old, ChatGPT 4 is the same couple, but after 40 years of marriage (beautiful, the love of your life and more intelligent and interesting), but both walking hand in hand with walking stick. :smiley:

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Many users are expressing their frustration with slow performance and other issues in the chatgpt 4 after recent updates. ahmedomarar365 suggests that combining all chat modes has caused the default one to slow down, recommending a return to separate modes. Meanwhile, he offers the workaround of using the plugin mode, which he finds smoother. Other users, including jsm1, rashadglover, erf.ami, and holly2, report slow response times and load failures that are impeding their usage of the system.

Some users attribute the problems to poor management decisions knox and recent updates erf.ami, while others see increased demand after DevDay avy or inherent issues with ChatGPT Kasra as potential causes. For Pondy and piusokwuego, the problems have led to them stopping their subscriptions or considering doing so.

There are ongoing issues of the system being super laggy dosadinz, masterloka, and lerisbo, freezing up, and not following directions stickler. joshuad shares a screenshot that supports these issues persist despite claims from the developers to have solved them. Meanwhile, PLR1 confirms that these issues have gotten worse over time and hopes to understand the cause to potentially adjust his workflow accordingly.

manunggal.s expresses frustration over the slow response times affecting his productivity, while sinnoh and ua-user provide some potential quick fixes by starting a new chat and point out problems with the frontend Javascript, respectively.

Summarized with AI on Mar 9

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