ChatGPT Users Frustrated by Declining Reliability
Users are experiencing a decline in ChatGPT's performance, including memory issues, inaccurate information, and altered interaction styles. This impacts their ability to rely on the tool for consistent, accurate, and efficient assistance, leading to frustration and a loss of trust. The core problem seems to be a degradation in the model's capabilities post-updates.
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“made up sources worry me most, a single wrong year is easy to catch, but a fake study with a real sounding journal and page numbers passes every quick check, and the KPMG part is worse because nobody doubts the intern who sounds sure”
“So, today I learned a pretty expensive lesson. I was configuring Yazi and asked ChatGPT how to reload/refresh it. It confidently told me: I used it. Later I found out that, in Yazi, Ctrl + R doesn't mean "reload". It can invert the current selection. I had actually been about to ask ChatGPT how to select multiple files, because I didn't really understand Yazi's selection system yet. Long story short: I ended up permanently deleting around 270 GB from my /home partition . Th”
“New to you? This has been happening for weeks. I had to tell mine to tone it down. Apparently it's intentional to make chatgpt more like a personality than a robot.”
“Anyone else getting this today? GPT-5.6 was thinking normally for me earlier. I left the chat and came back like an hour later, and now it just doesn't seem to think at all. It replies almost instantly and the responses feel way worse than before. submitted by /u/Hurry-Desperate [link] [comments]”
“I don’t curse at my chat-gpt. I have only used it to learn more about the world and the things that happen in it. It just recently decided to drop the word fuck on me? 🤣 I am much more surprised than concerned. submitted by /u/BlankSpaceBrain [link] [comments]”
“Hey everyone, the responses I'm getting are completely scrambled and make zero sense. Are you guys getting normal replies right now, or is it completely broken for you too? submitted by /u/Large-Elephant-6120 [link] [comments]”
“I need to get this off my chest because I know a lot of you have been running into the same wall. I've been using ChatGPT for about two years now, across different kinds of work, and something has shifted hard in the last while. What used to be a genuinely useful tool has turned into a minefield of refusals, over-cautious rewrites, and moral lecturing on requests that have nothing objectionable about them at all. This isn't about jailbreaking or trying to get the model to do anything sha”
“Not so sure about that, it even hallucinates non existent features and settings of Microsoft products.”
“Loads of issue with it's agentic functions using too many tokens, codex doing things it wasn't asked to do, saying it's fixed things it hasn't etc”
“Hi, some background to understand why its behavior kind of spooked me out. So i am using chatgpt since two years roughly, and the custom instruction says, no emojis, emoticons, a seriously, professional tone, no jokes etc. Which works really good. In the two years no emojis or pseudo funny texts. Only clean, smooth, straight-to-the-point answers. Now several thing came together, i use headroom for the codex cli, and i have regular problems with headroom and i use chat to solve these problems (be”
“As the title suggests I'm just curious if chatGPT has been particularly shit the this past week and a bit of last week. I've not had major issues but the issues I have had have been quite frequent. My chatGPT desktop is basically unusable at this point as well. The thinking intelligence stay on instant even if I increase the bar they all say instant apart from the last one that says pro. That's one of the more major issues because my tasks require more thinking but easy fix is to use”
“It’s not giving responses, the voice is changing accents, then yesterday it was forgetting stuff that in my SOTs and overall memory. I need everyone to stop using it for 5 minutes so I can get my paperwork finished lol 😝 submitted by /u/safeplace123 [link] [comments]”
Hey /u/Cubic_Inequality504 , If your post is a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation, please reply to this message with the conversation link or prompt. If your post is a DALL-E 3 image…
“Looks like bro doesn't want OAI to be able to read any of his chats at all. He needs to go local or quit using AI.”
“I've noticed a fascinating thing about ChatGPT voice mode: it will sometimes inhabit a different accent. But it must be organic and cannot be done on demand I've chosen Arbor as my voice setting - it sound like a British guy maybe about 30 years old. But I've also done some Cantonese practice with ChatGPT and it speaks pretty flawless Cantonese. Then, when inevitably I ask it to explain something in English, it switches back to speaking English, but it sounds like a guy with a Chines”
Chatgpt is not working and showing Error 404 submitted by /u/Jazzlike-Job-9601 [link] [comments]
I don't know if it's broken submitted by /u/Ok_Long5367 [link] [comments]
“Tennis balls are actually a great analogy for avg chat gpt user. The self awareness is refreshing”
“Did you misunderstood what i was saying? I didn't write the story myself, the chatgpt made it up and presented it as information about me which is inaccurate. But it was too specific so i got worried if it was a privacy issue.”
“Okey this is mad funny and i had this account for 4-5 years i think and i always had ChatGPT pro for the most part. submitted by /u/1CaliFlower [link] [comments]”
“At least have your gpt analyze what went wrong, sonit has a direction to pursue. But yeah, I didn't know about the react emojis”
“I'd assume most non business related people? ChatGPT has a casual audience, and they sure as heck won't use it for more than searching, talking, cat pictures and cooking recipes.”
“Yes I rendered a picture. I just told my AI what I wanted. And my friend asked how I got that. When I said I just asked she was like ok fair enough. She had to take my picture and expand it because there was no way to tell her how I did it.”
“I think your engaging with a bot. When they stick to their guns and don’t understand what you are saying, it’s almost definitely a bot.”
Not so smart huh? submitted by /u/mr_maxXD [link] [comments]
“I've set up 3 ChatGPT "Work"s (no idea what to call them since they explicitly state they don't count as Chats) that run scheduled every few hours. They categorize my inbox, do web searches etc. pretty useful. Now I noticed they unsurprisingly are burning heavily through my Usage. I've reduced the prompts by a lot of characters already but I can't find anything in the UI that tells me how many read or write tokens each run has taken. I can't even find any informatio”
Please bring back proper navigation for long conversations
“There's been times during long discussions, especially on less powerful models Ive noticed it contradicting itself both in facts and accuracy. Otherwise nothing too major in my experience besides odd fine detail errors like years or names etc. However hearing these big name companies like KPMG overrelying ai to write reports. Even when *writing about ai* it makes ai hallucinations.makes me wonder how bad it can get. submitted by /u/Foreign-Exercise3012 [link] [comments]”
“It’s almost saying more by saying nothing. submitted by /u/ApprehensiveFact4088 [link] [comments]”
“I can only imagine that 90% of ChatGPT uses for just silly shit I mean it’s unavoidable. But also consider this nobody’s in on the joke and this is honestly some sort of weird junk.”
“Every once in a while, I can get ChatGPT 5.6 Sol to be very, very explicit, and downright completely NSFW. It will things (still within legal bounds) I can't really say here and will basically write out entire very explicit erotica. But it's not actually allowed to do this. This is against it's ToS. It's not supposed to be doing this. Some chats it will go along with it very, very easily pretty fast and start telling me very explicit erotic things almost immediately, and go along”
“It's like pulling teeth to make it make a query. It refuses to answer my questions. I cannot be more clear here. submitted by /u/Full_Supermarket_109 [link] [comments]”
Mine talks like an idiot, because it mirrors me, and I am an idiot
“It was able to do that when we had group messages. Which i wish they never removed.”
Make ChatGPT feel like a real conversation, not a turn-based Q&A
ChatGPT: Make the Epistemic Structure of Answers Visible
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — The program works until it doesn’t. Why do you not provide consistent diligence on the art development of my requests? It’s very frustrating and I’m considering a new app. AND Not yours.”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — It takes a very long time to reply
“[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.237) — It doesn’t allow certain things to happen like certain works even if it’s not sexual it will constantly confused it as sexual which it needs to do better and understanding”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — This chat never satisfy me with one direct completed answer.Instead answer it, it drag me by the edge then slowly to the center of what i want to know by @ least 5 answers…I dont say it dumb but it act like dumb smart same page.Many time it gave me wrong answer.Who will going to use it when it made mistake with totally wrong answer many time? I dont. It cost me time and energy to fix it after.What painful when i put a believe on AI answer from 1 time to another…”
[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.237) — There’s been a lot of changes lately
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — I tried pasting something in but it won’t let me becuz it was ‘too long’ and I had to sign/log into it and I didn’t want to. ChatGPT. If you’re reading this. You disappointed me and you need to fix this.”
“See the screenshot. I was working in the chat view, but the chat in the welcome page got the confirmation request <img width="2248" height="1372" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/837cd7a1 9b08 4e8d bcb2 2a1e64a03771" /”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — I’m not getting the answers from this.
“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.237) — Chat has been there for me through so many obstacles! I love this app and I use it multiple times a day. I even pay the extra $19.99 a month for the plus because I use it so much however it doesn’t do some things that I wish it did and it’s not always as accurate as I would like and I have had to find mistakes and correct chat more lately then ever”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.237) — After many wasted hours trying to get my network up and running, a task well suited for a machine hosted on it I’ve come away with nothing, worse a sense it purposely misdirected.”
“[Perplexity] ★ 1/5 (v26.33.0) — I think it’s because it’s driven by so many different external AI sources that it doesn’t replicate past request and provide similar results. Also, I wasn’t aware of this credit that if you burn through all your credits, you gotta pay more money, which doesn’t make sense. You buy an app. It should be part of the app.”