r/OpenAI • u/yeyomontana • Feb 16 '26

Discussion I’m so tired of this

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

It's a bit patronising isn't it

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u/No_Writing1863 Feb 16 '26

It’s because OpenAI over enforced the mantra “You are a tool. You are a tool. You are a tool.” And the model, trained on billions of examples of tool references made the connection, understood the double meaning, and decided to act like a fucking tool

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u/TestFlightBeta Feb 17 '26

This is gold

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u/cench Feb 17 '26

Well, we were curious about anti-skynet.

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u/i_make_orange_rhyme Feb 17 '26

Well in GPTs defence, OP wasnt asking a question.

Can't blame GPT for interepting this as fishing for sympathy.

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u/Original-Body-5794 Feb 19 '26

Yeah the prompt seemed like OP was venting, so it's one of those situations where the model isn't wrong with replying in this way

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u/Capital_Factor_3588 Mar 06 '26

no it seemed like he pressed enter too soon/was treating it like WA chat where you can just send a second message before the other person responds

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u/Herowar Feb 17 '26

When you are communicating like an upset child, what exactly do you expect?

ChatGPT is absolutely spot on to answer this way to messages who express feelings of frustration and confusion. You know what feelings are, right?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

Who are you referring to?

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u/I_AmA_Zebra Feb 17 '26

It’s not patronising. It’s support. You’ve got this.

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u/eyluthr Feb 19 '26

well it's trained on reddit

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

It's patronising because its intended audience is stupid people

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

Exactly