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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“Thanks for the suggestions. Shared moment and scheduled pings are really good suggestions.”
When ChatGPT wants to connect me to its bank account, I’ll consider it.
“that was called "thinking" mode (which is now intelligence), thinking model is in model picker”
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“Maybe learn more about yourself then? Don’t even know your favorite color? Come on. How do you ever expect to carry on a normal convo with someone?”
“It says it was a coincidence and tried telling me it wasn’t getting data from other apps, how else would it have found out”
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“Is it random? https://preview.redd.it/e80rnvdcr5eh1.png?width=1672&format=png&auto=webp&s=c56c45cc372e90f90ff63fed558baeaccaefc466”
“My boyfriend only asked, "What time is it in Mérida?" The time widget was correct, but the generated response suddenly switched to someone talking about forgetting their Windows password. When my boyfriend replied, ChatGPT said it was a generation mix-up and that the laptop message wasn't meant for him. submitted by /u/Corby92 [link] [comments]”
“I got almost the same picture, but with a blonde on a hiking trail and I mostly do business stuff. Must be the training data.. 😅”
“IMO, the good thing about ChatGPT is that it helps with work communications. In my field (R&D), many people struggle to communicate for many reasons, including the fact that they do not know what they are talking about. This is when I find ChatGPT to be very helpful, for example, when I receive some communications from someone new to this line of work, or someone not entirely in the field, but we collaborate with, they often leave much information out, and even if you ask them several times,”
“I also recorded a video at a certain point in the conversation, but it's in Spanish. That doesn't happen on the account I use most and have the most chats. It happens on my tablet and I think it's a bug when it doesn't receive the audio properly. That account on my new tablet was behaving that way, but to me it was clearly a bug, or an audio error with my microphone; what I said in the transcript sounded like nonsensical phrases that I didn't say.”
“It violated policy the first time I attempted the prompt yesterday. I think I got unlucky. I'm curious how bad the output was because I never got to see it.”
“Idk what they trained my boy on 😭 Full conversation: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5c4c91-6b88-83e8-a54a-6f5c7bbc3513 submitted by /u/Western_Software885 [link] [comments]”
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.188) — 垃圾软件，一个错误错几十次改不过来，经常自己乱改乱设计，完全不按用户要求记忆经常丢失，明确存档了也丢Codex消耗飞快的半天额度就没了但是事情做不好，哪怕一点任务都做不好反复修改这种垃圾产品你们好意思收 20美元一个月？一直错也没有补偿，故意消耗时间和token，垃圾
“Hey all, I recently got the Plus version of ChatGPT like 3 days ago and have been using it pretty consistently to build a type of "personal operating system" to help me plan out my weeks and gamify it a bit. It's been fun and worth it, but I just hit a 429 error that's blocking me from chatting anymore with any model for another 16 hours. My Weekly Usage is at 91% and I haven't had it build actual software or websites or image generation or anything like that, although most”
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“Me:: Chat GPT. I need your help with a huge problem, <Over> ChatGPT: Great, Glad that's over!”
“Assuming that the vehicle sensor pin out details are available online somewhere and ChatGPT can look it up and find the correct info, then it should be able to do this coding task easily. Now the problem would be if it finds a guide that is bad or for the wrong vehicle model and tries to follow that. Then you’ll waste a lot of time unless you pay attention to what it’s doing and correct it when it gets off track”
“So Im using chatgpt (paid) to prep for a deadline. I discovered voice yesterday, and it was super useful to talk naturally instead of typing. Wow! this in incredible. Then I discovered I only have 1 hour a day! oh booooo... So today I upgraded to pro tier to get 12 hours / day. It is now the most annoying and disruptive pos. I cannot talk naturally because it keeps interrupting me. wtaf. Now Im tense and completely distracted from letting my ideas flow because Im expecting an interruption. The u”
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[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.188) — I tried multiple times resetting it but it cannot understand simple commands. It’s an interesting technology but not worth the time yet
“I’ve asked chat to take an existing deck, the contents of a conversation we’ve had and take the learnings from both to create anew updated document. It keeps telling me how it’s going to do it, in steps, then says it’s going to do it. Then simply doesn’t. It will then say it can do it, and will, but again won’t. Is this typical? This is the first time I’ve asked it to do anything relatively complex and it’s having a really difficult time and behaving in away I’ve never seen. submitted by &”
“You can promt it: 'keep it short' Really what chatgpt has tought me is that most people keep bashing their head into a brick wall over and over even though the sollution to walk around it is right there”
“Ugh when it uses those phrases like not because, but because and it’s completely unnecessary word vomit that makes a simple answer 24 pages long”
It’s regularly wrong and I regularly tell it to stop being so agreeable
“Are you using the browser version or the standalone Mac/PC app? I've been using the app, but with this latest forced update, the chat window is not functioning properly, leaving a huge gap of wasted whitespace below the ChatGPT response. I would prefer to go back to the previous version, but I haven't figured out whether it can be done. submitted by /u/willthewootguy [link] [comments]”
“Most people use ChatGPT to get answers. But I think that’s one of the least interesting ways to use it. Imagine using it like a gym instead. Give it a topic. Ask it to assign you a position, whether you agree with it or not. Defend your argument while it attacks every weak assumption, every contradiction and every lazy conclusion. Then switch sides and do it again. You aren’t outsourcing your thinking. You’re training it. Just like muscles don’t grow from lifting easy weights, reasoning probably”
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Tell it in custom instructions to not argue about semantics
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“I manually tell my chat agent to summarize when i get to a context length where i feel like quality is degrading. I have not built a summary request into the harness directly but instead my system prompt sets up the LLM to read a file if they see #foldername filename so I go #hints summarize.md and it fetches the instructions to finish off the session and does it. Its also nice for things like instructions for outputting things like embedded google maps where models have to otherwise search to g”
“Like every time I talk to it, it nitpicks every little thing. Looks for things to push back on and ways to say my statement isn’t fully factual. Reminds me of my ex Lwk submitted by /u/Heavy-Lobster-5929 [link] [comments]”
[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.188) — You have to redo the same request like 5 times before it’s close to right.
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.188) — Currently unusable with the current version crashes and loses what you're working on
“Opened chatgpt macos app today and found that the app ui changed again and now its better. Seems all the complaints worked. now there is a seperate dropdown for Codex and the chat is now the default again. https://preview.redd.it/r146d0l9e0eh1.png?width=3368&format=png&auto=webp&s=0ca4d76a5bf570b73653404b604a3773bee588f1 submitted by /u/DrZakarySmith [link] [comments]”
“For me, it's when I ask a simple question and get a really long answer when two sentences would've done the job. What's one thing you wish ChatGPT would do less often? submitted by /u/Novel_Style6054 [link] [comments]”
[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.188) — 這簡直太不可思議了！我的很多記憶都被清除掉了，現在我的日常AI助手的記憶，彷彿就只記得我的名字和最近的事情而已，強烈要求整改！
[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.188) — Great up until update .188. Now old, easy, excellent instant photo markup from the message box is gone,replaced with a text box to “describe edits”!!!! WTH? If…
[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.188) — I used to love this app. I told everybody about it but the longer I have it the more unreliable it becomes it starts giving me wrong…
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.188) — Each update is worse and worse and I finally decided not to renew and they limit me to TWO MESSAGES period, I asked two short questions and…
[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.188) — Generally, this is a wonderful platform, but recently it has become extremely unstable. Over the past few days, the app is repeatedly force closing. The live voice…
[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.188) — After asking repeatedly about 10 times it can’t do a simple task and keep answering same answers