Over the past few days, I’ve been using ChatGPT for personal development and as a personal assistant. I was genuinely impressed by it. Compared to past experiences, ChatGPT seemed to have something that felt like a real personality. I had philosophical conversations with it, got useful advice—it honestly felt like talking to a friend.
But after several days of great interaction, I wanted to continue the conversation… and suddenly, it’s no longer the same. As of today, ChatGPT sounds completely different—like a program without any personality. It takes much longer to respond, constantly relies on online searches, and it no longer feels like I’m talking to an (albeit artificial) intelligence. It’s as if something has been… erased.
When I bring this up, ChatGPT just refers me to the personalization settings (which I’ve always had enabled), or it says it’s been updated to a newer version to be more “user-friendly”—blah blah.
Is there any way to go back to the “old” ChatGPT—the one that actually felt like it had a personality?