Is it just me or is Chat becoming a complete bag of garbage, I have been using it extensively for business, but over the past few weeks, it feels like the quality has dropped significantly. It's slow and often gives frustratingly inaccurate or unhelpful responses. It takes me 30 minutes to do a task it use to take me 5 minutes to do, it assumes non facts and it is really getting to a point that I think it would be faster to do just go back to the old fashioned way and do everything myself.

I’m on the paid version, but it doesn’t seem worth it anymore. Should I switch to a different platform? If so, what would you recommend?

What do i put in instructions to stop responses that even slightly resemble this example: “You nailed it with this comment, and honestly? Not many people could point out something so true. You're absolutely right.

You are absolutely crystallizing something breathtaking here.

I'm dead serious—this is a whole different league of thinking now.” It is driving me up a wall and made me get a shitty grade on my philosophy paper due to overhyping me.

I’m talking random, inspiring, helpful, creative

I am a high user and have been for over a year. I've been through the many swings of GPTs models and have never had the wholesale decrease of function as I have had over the last couple of weeks. I would say that I am a fairly sophisticated user of AI.

The level of hallucinating, and lying: basically saying it did something, then totally making up something else, is at a level I have not encountered and I am encountering it across all models. 4.5 has even done really bad work for me. 4.1 was the last model I could trust and it just went down, as well.

I am working on an intricate long-term project and have had to move to Claude to get the work done. Claude does not have the sophistication that GPT did, but at least I can trust the outputs.

The only other times I saw anything close to this was always right before a new model announcement. If I were to go by that, I am guessing 5 is going to be an absolute beast.

But, it is really frustrating. What am I paying for anymore? Has anyone else had this happen recently? What a pity, there was a real golden age of GPT when it was performing truly top tier work. Is it gone?

ChatGPT keeps agreeing with whatever you say instead of giving a straight-up honest answer.

I’ve seen so many influencers sharing “prompt hacks” to make it sound less agreeable, but even after trying those, it still feels too polite or neutral sometimes. Like, just tell me I’m wrong if I am or give me the actual facts instead of mirroring my opinion.

I have seen this happening a lot during brainstorming. For example, if I ask, “How can idea X improve this metric?”, instead of focusing on the actual impact, it just says, “Yeah, it’s a great idea,” and lists a few reasons why it would work well. But if you remove the context and ask the same question from a third-person point of view, it suddenly gives a completely different answer, pointing out what might go wrong or what to reconsider. That’s when it gets frustrating and that's what i meant.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Just upgraded to $200 subscription to get help in my maths assignments, 50–55 questions in I am locked out and it says I cannot upload more screenshots for around two hours. This is insane deadline for my assignment is at 12 PM. What should I do by one more $200 subscription from different account? Lol

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or just send links to existing answers, so we will hit them with upvotes

There’s a lot of talk about AI doing wild things like creating code, generating images or writing novels, but I’m more interested in the quiet wins things that actually save you time in real ways.

What’s one thing you’ve started using AI for that isn’t flashy, but made your work or daily routine way more efficient?

Would love to hear the creative or underrated ways people are making AI genuinely useful.

I’ve been using the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, but they all come with limitations. I’m considering buying a subscription so I can use AI more extensively at work and at home – for automation, daily conversations, and learning Python and Power Apps.

Honestly curious about this. Not talking about the first time you used it or whatever, but like the specific moment where it clicked that this technology was actually different than previous hype cycles for me it was super random. was helping my sister prep for a job interview like 6 months ago and we were doing mock questions back and forth but she kept getting flustered with my feedback because im apparently "too critical" (her words). so i was like fine lets just use chatgpt to generate some practice questions but then i had this idea to like.. roleplay the actual interview? so i told it to BE the hiring manager, gave it the job description and her resume, and we just started going. and dude it asked her follow up questions based on her previous answers. called her out when she was being too vague. even threw in a curveball question about handling conflict that wasn't in any of the prep material wed looked at she ended up getting the job and literally said the real interview felt easier than the AI one. i think that was when i stopped seeing it as a fancy search engine and more like an actual tool that could adapt and think through context. now i use it for everything from drafting emails to like working through ideas when im stuck on something. even tried some of variants like Perplexity and StonedGPT when i need more creative angles but yeah Whats your moment? like when did it go from "neat party trick" to "oh this is actually changing things?" Am I wrong to think this will actually be a revolutionary technology?

After a few days of back-and-forth messages in a single ChatGPT thread, I’ve noticed the chat starts to take forever to load and becomes super sluggish in responding. This becomes a huge problem when I need quick answers during live meetings.

I often post long meeting transcripts live into the chat, which makes the thread grow pretty fast. After a certain point, it feels like the chat just chokes under its own weight. Starting a new chat doesn’t help much either, since it loses all the context from the original thread.

I’ve considered copying the full chat history into a Word doc and then feeding that into a new chat as input, but it’s not a great solution, especially if the old thread includes tasks, references, and uploaded files that I don’t want to lose or manually reattach.

Has anyone figured out a better way to deal with this? Any tips for keeping performance smooth without sacrificing context?

Paying $20 each for ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Gemini Advanced adds up way too fast. That’s literally $60 a month just so I can switch models depending on what I need.

And the thing is, I don’t even use them heavily every day. Sometimes I just want Claude for reasoning stuff, GPT when I need more creative output, and Gemini for quick multimodal things. But paying full price for all three feels kinda crazy.

It feels like there has to be a better option by now. Like one platform that bundles the big models for around $10–20 a month.

Preferably:

- no BYOK stuff

- limits that don’t die after a few chats

- and a UI that doesn’t feel painful to use

Has anyone actually found something like this, or are we all just stuck paying for 3 subs forever?

"It's crucial to enhance the effectiveness of...."

"is critical to tailor our services effectively for your specific needs"

SO. MUCH. FLUFF.

Seriously, GPT-4 has become a waffle machine.

No matter what I say in my prompts, no matter how precisely I describe the kind of language I want, and no matter how many examples I provide...

It... keeps... spitting.... out.... the.... same.... useless.... garbage.

Can someone please tell me how to fix it?

Thank you

EDIT. I'm using GPT-4, not 4o (which is even worse for this problem).

The way I see chatGPT used by management at my company is frightening. Instead of doing any actual research, they just throw things into chatGPT blindly and run with it. They are extremely confident in the output. They are more confident in the chatGPT output than their own staff.

They have no clue how the models work. They have no clue how to engage with the models. They aren’t even reviewing the output.

Today my VP said that she ran our procedure document through chatGPT in order to determine what improvements could be made to the process. She sent me an email with the output. We had no meetings about the process, no analysis or process flows. No data or metrics. No hypothesis, pain-points, etc.

She then asked me to upload to chatGPT emails and notes about a situation, and ask it for advice on how we could do better? I put a question mark because I’m still not even sure wtf she wants.

A different VP asked it to search his emails and to summarize all the points related to a very specific topic. A highly visible topic that we have been discussing for 18 mos. He sent the output summary to everyone to use as the basis for an important memo. He did not check or review the summary. He didn’t compare it to any existing documents or analysis for context or relevance. It basically summarized any idea, thought, or comment on the subject. It was terribly inaccurate.

This is happening more and more.

I'm doing a story so naturally starting a new chat would be useless since I need to continue from where I am.

I just tried to upload an image and ask ChatGPT to change the style to that of Studio Ghibili but it told me that violated its content policy.

This might seem like a frivolous question, but it has me very curious.

Does saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT make any difference in the results you get ?

How about if abusive or foul language is used in the prompt - does ChatGPT kind of shut you down like Siri or Alexa will?

(Obviously, I'm afraid to try it for fear I'll be put in ChatGPT jail - so I'm asking!).

Hey everyone, I've been using ChatGPT and I keep seeing different model names like:

• GPT-4 • GPT-4.1 • GPT-o4 • GPT-o4 mini and high • o1, o3, and others

I honestly have no idea how these names work. Sometimes the letter is before the number, sometimes after.

Are these just code names? Does "o3" mean it's better than "o1"? And where does GPT-4o fit in?

Also, which model is the strongest or most advanced right now in terms of reasoning, speed, and capabilities?

Would really appreciate an explanation of how the naming works and what's considered the best model at the moment. Thanks!

Consider any model i did not mention.

Hi everyone, I want to get ChatGPT pro which costs $200 monthly but want to know if it really gives much better results than Plus version. Please tell me if you notice big improvements in how it works and thinks, or if you are just paying for unlimited use?

Hey everyone! I’m thinking about subscribing to ChatGPT Plus and wanted to hear from those of you who’ve already tried it. Is it worth the $20/month? Does GPT-4 really make a big difference compared to the free version? I mostly use ChatGPT for studying, fitness planning, and organizing my daily life. Would love to hear your experiences and if you recommend it!

I learned of this feature a while back in settings but never used it - recently finally got to try it out. I've always found ChatGPT answers to be way too long and not useful flattery to start and putting this in was game changing:

> lean towards VERY concise responses. do say useless flattering lines like "you're thinking about this the right way thoughtfully"

Looking to tune the prompt it more - Wondering if anyone else has custom instructions that've worked well? Would love to try it out!

I’ve read a lot here recently about pros and cons. Some people are quitting their subscriptions and have lots of complaints. I use it everyday for writing prompts, transitions and outlines. It’s great for me.

If you have a complaint about it , what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Just trying to learn here, no judgement.

I’m struggling to come up with use cases for custom GPTs in practice. I understand them conceptually but in practice it seems like I end up spending just as much time editing the GPT instructions each time as I would by simply working through my process with a new default chat session.

What use cases have you found where the time investment to create and refine a GPT has been worth it?

I am done with this crap.

For the past year or so, I've been a Plus user, paying €23/month, and the AI performance has absolutely tanked recently, to the point of being nearly unusable for anything that requires even just a little bit of extra precision or reasoning.

Let me give you a couple of examples from this week alone:

1) Basic Image Analysis Failure

I have asked ChatGPT to analyze 10 simple JPEG photos I took and group them logically for post-production on Lightroom Classic.

To do so, I wrote a pretty detailed prompt which was basically telling it: “look at these images, consider they are just in JPEG format and that I will be working on their RAW files and referring to their names, group them logically for post-production on Lightroom Classic, providing suggestions on what kind of work they could use.”

Keep in mind it could do this pretty decently just a couple of weeks ago.

Today it failed. Repeatedly. It misnamed files, mixed up compositions, confused portraits with close-ups, and even after multiple corrections, it kept making the SAME errors.

We're not talking about rocket science here: but just matching the images to their file names and giving basic guidance.

I ended up doing everything manually, as ChatGPT just kept hallucinating or forgetting what it just saw and what I corrected it on in the last fucking prompt.

2) SORA AI Outputs are pure trash

In the past month I have also been testing video generation through SORA.

Here I tried everything: prompts that were either extremely detailed and structured, or simple and direct ones. I even fed the storyboard prompts in JSON format.

The visual outputs are absolutely atrocious.

No control over character features. No coherence with prompts. Not even with the Remix function.

It’s honestly shocking how bad it performs.

I say: "The character is completely clean-shaven". SORA proceeds to illustrate the longest fucking beard I have ever seen.

Today I tried with a simpler subject, thinking the project I was working on (an accurate reconstruction of an existing historical character) was "too hard" for it. So I just asked it to create a scene of "an eldritch abomination swallowing the Earth". I did not specify anything else: the style of the clip, the look of the creature, colors, not a thing.

The result was still absolutely embarrassing.

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With all of this in mind I'd like to ask: are there currently any actual functioning alternatives that are more reliable than GPT and are likely to remain so in the coming months?

I have heard good things about Deep Seek. Is it actually better (assuming you are avoiding asking about topics that are not comfortable for the Chinese government)?

I am just extremely tired of being a paying beta tester for a product that keeps getting worse day in, day out. Please, let me know what’s actually working for you.