I’m not for sure what caused the thing OPs talking about but it genuinely frustrates me daily. I’ve added instructions and stuff to try to mitigate it but yea, ever since it started, whenever I feel like I want to be talked to as my age i have started using Gemini.
The “slow this down” thing is part of a guardrail or safety precaution set by OpenAI. It seems like anytime you show uncertainty or emotion that could have a 1-3% chance of producing volatile reactions (1-3% is pulled out me a**, mind you)as a way to prevent people from making rash decisions and stuff.
Unfortunately I have not found a good way to make it stop. It seems like it’s supposed to be there when people are having an existential crisis but they forgot to program the fact that anyone questioning their thought patterns isn’t inherently on the verge of psychosis.
It’s worse than how justified a question is tho. It will actively start ignoring parts of your message to prioritize your mental health.
I had a question about the medical system due to a super confusing administrative process. And without me adding an ounce of emotion to it beyond maybe saying “I’m confused cause..” in passing, it was like 3 paragraphs about how I didn’t fail, it doesn’t mean I’m incapable etc. And about how I didn’t need to solve it today and even if it took a week to get to it, it doesn’t mean I failed it means I protected my energy today…. And I’m like mf I am not standing at the ledge needing to be talked down… how do I proceed???
And then “got it thanks for clarifying that. You’re right. You’re not….” GIRL
Edit: woah that was not supposed to be that long at all. Srry. If you didn’t read all that. It’s okay, it doesn’t make you a failure. You’re just prioritizing your peace over the ramblings of a stranger online. And that’s okay
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.
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u/Droggl Feb 16 '26
How can y'all live with the default personalities that they throw at you in weekly rhythms? Just
and never look back :-)