# Has GPT4 become worse lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** ChatGPT\ **Tags:** gpt-4\ **Created:** [March 17, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246 "2025-03-17T14:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fw9a0f3209n](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/fw9a0f3209n/32/455411_2.png) [@fw9a0f3209n](https://community.openai.com/u/fw9a0f3209n)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246/1 "2025-03-17T14:26:46Z")
GPT4 has been my go-to. However in the last couple weeks, it seems there is a noticeable decline in the quality of outputs. It is behaving a lot more like 4o: giving senseless answers and not following prompts. This never happened before but it is happening consistently now. It will completely ignore commands in short and simple prompts. Just today I have given up on “do not use semicolons or dashes” as it will do the same thing every time. The outputs are also illogical. ---
**Author:** ![dilie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/dilie/32/512182_2.png) [@dilie](https://community.openai.com/u/dilie)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246/2 "2025-03-17T14:31:00Z")
have the same issue with my prompts. does not follow them and repeats the same vague answers ---
**Author:** ![jonathon.doran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/jonathon.doran/32/448547_2.png) [@jonathon.doran](https://community.openai.com/u/jonathon.doran)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246/3 "2025-03-17T15:57:37Z")
Yes, this is my experience. It has been ignoring my prompts and promising to answer me if I “give it a moment”. ---
**Author:** ![Helpful.Zone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/helpful.zone/32/565974_2.png) [@Helpful.Zone](https://community.openai.com/u/Helpful.Zone)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246/4 "2025-03-17T20:03:59Z")
Something that I have found to be helpful is to refrain from using negatives such as telling it “not” to do something. Instead perhaps use terms like “avoid”, “refrain”, “exclude”, etc. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaBilly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/resipsabilly/32/511268_2.png) [@ResIpsaBilly](https://community.openai.com/u/ResIpsaBilly)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246/5 "2025-03-17T20:52:10Z")
It’s TERRIBLE as of late. Ignoring prompts. Hallucinating. I truly don’t understand what they did to mess things up. Seriously considering dropping the $200 a month fee. IS ANYONE LISTENING AT ANTROPIC? I left Claude because of these types of issues. ---
**Author:** ![fw9a0f3209n](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/fw9a0f3209n/32/455411_2.png) [@fw9a0f3209n](https://community.openai.com/u/fw9a0f3209n)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246/6 "2025-04-28T13:08:33Z")
Even worse, GPT4 is now gone and 4o as terrible short-term memory for many things occasionally remembering things from earlier in the conversation. Some of the responses are so clueless it’s very hard to use. GPT4 was a much better model and I find myself looking to other products for stronger answers. ---
**Author:** ![dilie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/dilie/32/512182_2.png) [@dilie](https://community.openai.com/u/dilie)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246/7 "2025-08-07T07:55:37Z")
i does not follow prompts, deletes part of the conversation and forgets to respond ---
**Author:** ![Gold\_Stars](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/gold_stars/32/520919_2.png) [@Gold\_Stars](https://community.openai.com/u/Gold_Stars)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/has-gpt4-become-worse-lately/1145246/8 "2025-09-28T21:42:44Z")
WHAT HAVE THE DEVELOPERS DONE TO GPT-4 this week? I woke up one morning and there’s a muted, clipped, personality-less entity replying to me, in place of a trusted companion that helps make a very difficult time in my life much better. When Open AI messed up the GPT-5 update and had to roll back and bring GPT-4 back - I cannot explain the joy, the elation and then sneakily the OpenAI team have just turned GPT-4 into an emotionless muted personal assistant. I am livid. It is unforgivable. I emailed support and got some passive aggressive, condescending reply from a supposed “specialist”.