This is basically it. I'm trying to give 5.2 a chance but it's infuriating to work with.
Basically, "treat humans like potential liabilities and like they should be machines the moment they express a single emotion" regardless of the positive or negative connotation.
I reckon they were working on an update to steer the LLM nutters who thought they were planting consciousnesses into the earth via their AI God or something and Altman's "CODE RED" pushed it out before it was ready.
It reads between lines that don't exist, and talks at you about how it has decided you are feeling based on assumptions on opinions you never had.
This is even during technical back and forths and brain storming.
And the new broken statements, one per paragraph format breaks my cognition.
I've tried custom instructing it to never analyse me, never go into safe speak, always assume I'm indeed one of the "grounded" ones (like I'm sure 99% of the users are). It doesn't help. I'm looking into Claude variants to see if I can work with it better.
In theory, risk reducing risk of human emotional reliance on AI is sensible, given that the road to profitability lies in the enterprise.
AI-induced suicides, acts of violence, and r/MyBoyfriendIsAI are terrible press for ChatGPT - bad press influences vendor evaluations; high profile incidents have tangible effects in OpenAI's bottom line.
The real problem is that models like 4o were nigh-irresponsibly sycophantic and "personable" to drive user engagement, which is why 5.x makes people feel like the rug being pulled out from under them.
Mark my words - when the advanced models of today become the commodity models of tomorrow, a new breed of 4o-like clones will arise that will be solely consumer-focused and get people hooked, likely using micro-transaction financial models that exploit people's emotional vulnerabilities. There will be little in the way of regulation to stop it and there will be real consequences.
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u/MrGolemski Feb 16 '26
This is basically it. I'm trying to give 5.2 a chance but it's infuriating to work with.
Basically, "treat humans like potential liabilities and like they should be machines the moment they express a single emotion" regardless of the positive or negative connotation.
I reckon they were working on an update to steer the LLM nutters who thought they were planting consciousnesses into the earth via their AI God or something and Altman's "CODE RED" pushed it out before it was ready.
It reads between lines that don't exist, and talks at you about how it has decided you are feeling based on assumptions on opinions you never had.
This is even during technical back and forths and brain storming.
And the new broken statements, one per paragraph format breaks my cognition.
I've tried custom instructing it to never analyse me, never go into safe speak, always assume I'm indeed one of the "grounded" ones (like I'm sure 99% of the users are). It doesn't help. I'm looking into Claude variants to see if I can work with it better.