Hi!
I have been a long time user of the GPT models with the plus subscription. I am a university student and find GPT Advanced Voice Mode to be extremely useful for revising notes and facilitating understanding. With the three courses I have at any one time, I find that splitting my studying up over six days allows the one hourish daily limit for AVM to be sufficient.
The issue is that the last-use based reset point for the time limit (the model resets 24 hours after the last use) leads to a sort of rolling schedule. Let me illustrate with an example of a week.
Monday: I start using AVM at around 10:00. Used it to its usage cap.
Tuesday: I have a morning lecture until 10:45, after which I start using it around 11:00. Because of the hour delay between the reset (at 10:00) and my new first use, the model will not reset until 11:00 on Wednesday, meaning that I can not go back to my previous schedule at 10:00. Used it to its usage cap again.
Wednesday: I start using it at around 11. Used it to its usage cap again.
Thursday: I have lunch plans, so I don’t get to use it until 3 pm. Used it to its usage cap again.
Friday: I have an appointment from 3:30 to 5:30 and then need to shop and run errands before stores close. I want to study before all of this but now I cannot, since the usage cap will not reset until 3pm and 30 minutes is not enough time to study. I do not get the opportunity to use it until 8pm.
Then, on Saturday, even though I still need to study (as it is the sixth day), I am unable to do so until 8pm or later. If I have evening plans or something else to do, I will need to completely skip studying on that day.
Ideally, I would’ve studied in the morning every day, at around 10, before my mid-day and evening appointments and plans. However, the fact that my schedule had to vary by a single hour on a single day (Tuesday) led to a spiraling effect where I was forced to shift my schedule by ten hours by the end of the week.
This is immensely impractical for anyone who has a stable and consistent routine. Having a reset based at a fixed time (such as midnight) would be so much more sensible and be so much more useful to conforming with schedules.
If the reset is set at a fixed time GMT, using VPNs or changing timezones won’t allow users to bypass it, and it will functionally have the same effect as the “24 hours since last use” policy.
Please help me out with this. I am sure that many professionals and students with consistent routines like me are also suffering because of this.
Thank you for your consideration. This minuscule change would have massive effects for the usability and satisfaction of your platform for people like me.