ChatGPT got worse over the months?

[Kornform]

I just wanted to open this thread to rant about how bad ChatGPT has become for me. No matter how detailed I wrote prompts and how strictly I set rules for a specific output, for example a character minimum or limit ChatGPT is unable to. Even when instructing ChatGPT to use the Code Interpreter. Or ChatGPT forgetting context I set up in the conversation. It’s not better with Custom GPTs or and the knowledge base. It’s very very disappointing and I’m asking myself whatfor I pay money. I started using Claude and I get better results there. I feel really dumb to pay for such quality of output tbh…

[cp76]

There is a similar thread on this issue. Have a look here:

How to deal with "lazy" GPT 4

I do agree that OpenAI has opened up an ecosystem unlike anything offered by anyone else, but they are very restrictive with their best and newest products that tend to go exclusively to wealthy clients, not their general community. Like as a small team leader, when I’ve inquired about access to non-public services, I’ve never even gotten so much as a piss-off out of them. When my team applied for enterprise, we didn’t even get the automated spam telling us some canned crap like I got from Claud…

And yes, I also noticed the issues you are describing. I have a ChatGPT Plus subscription and noticed the degrading quality of ChatGPT4 responses over time.

[bitbytebit-c]

Yes, forgetting the last output of itself often, ChatGPT has become horrible.

Claude is like talking to a 8 yr old vs. talking to a 1 yr old for ChatGPT.

You have to really guide ChatGPT and hold back the urge to yell that they are like a toddler in contextual awareness of what they last did. Both sort of dumb vs. humans when you get detailed, but overall Claude is great and ChatGPT makes me wanna cuss it out (and I do).

[johncain194]

You know what, it had been happening since they announced the launch of ‘GPT-5’. There is a big possibility that OpenAI deliberately downgrade their ChatGPT4 in anticipation of the ‘Chat-GPT5’. Most probably, people who use chatGPT 4 only use for ‘daily use’ does not feel much difference. However, people like us who use ChatGPT for high-intensive brainpower, complex instruction and detailed, in-depth prompts for intellectual pursuits or any other endeavor will suffer. In addition, ChatGPT 4 still suffers from ‘calculation deficiency’

Here is the main thread:

How to deal with "lazy" GPT 4

You can’t format it in HTML, small texts, it stops in the middle. Turn image into text? I’ve never been able to do it again, I haven’t been able to do it for about two months. There is definitely a lack of processing, there is a lack of money for this broken company. Openai is literally covering it. It’s not that the quality of the text has worsened, it simply doesn’t perform the functions it used to. He also doesn’t do intelligent research on the internet anymore, chagpt is rubbish today.

[Malric]

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one. I think that if there was a metric that could show how often people become belligerent with ChatGPT, you could watch and tell when they nerf the model’s performance vs. when they do quality updates based on the metric of people swearing in fits of rage at ChatGPT.

When I start to feel abusive towards the AI, that’s when I know I need to take a break and wait for the next silent update to fix whatever they just broke without ever acknowledging it.

[romuluspb]

I just cancelled my account ~50 days ago and I’m using Anthropic and OpenAI API. Situation is such that I’m using Claude more as my focus is programming questions and GPT4 has been unsatisfactory for that.

[Kornform]

I commented on a similar thread months ago, stating my frustration shortly after the launch of GPT 4 where I notice the significant drop of quality output.

I mainly use ChatGPT for content generation, SEO, coding and a little bit of programming. Also when trying to be be very specific or broad when it comes to custom GPTs and my custom instruction and my knowledge base I get bad results.

It’s amazing how useless the knowledge base is when ChatGPT forgets that a knowlege base even exists after the first reply. It’s frustrating how useless it has become.

Anthropic isn’t perfect either, but I would say MUCH better. It’s a little bit bit expensive to use for me, since I use the newest model where you pay for tokens. But I would rather spend more money on that, than on ChatGPT.

I have even many old of my chats in my history where I could clearly see how much better the responses were. I probably will also cancel my subscription after I have found a new workflow for myself. ChatGPT is still great for brainless tasks, like when I ask ChatGPT what I could cook with my ingredients or what’s the correct translation of a certain language is etc.

[pa1ar]

i can totally relate. i am paying for both chatgpt and github copilot. both are unable to perform simplest tasks for coding anymore. the times when i could actually expect to get a working code has long been gone.

i am living in germany so i can’t pay for claude unfortunately, but claude currently feels like chatgpt 1 year ago - it is responsive and understands what i mean in most cases.

it is unfortunate that we in europe are stuck with openai for now because of regulatory hell people who has zero idea about the industry are putting us in.

[sppoker91]

Thanks! Exactly. I’ve noticed that in the month of April, ChatGPT has gone back a lot. It has become completely unusable to the point that I could write a better algorithm resting in the backyard in my free time.

It happened during that big update they pushed making ChatGPT more humanlike and less AI. Since then it has turned completely lazy and has not provided a single accurate answer . This is not an exaggeration. Users who are familiar will know what I’m talking about.

Now the monthly fee is still a skyrocketing $25, but the quality of the service has only gone down since then. 70% of the time the premium access is not accessible due to the service being lagged out, not available, clunky, slow and unreliable.

I’m actually appalled at this monumental display of negligence.

Remember OpenAI, the only person who will hold you accountable is yourself. So this is a friendly reminder to do better or I will cancel all affiliations with ChatGPT4 everywhere and look for alternative solutions.