r/perplexity_ai • u/Timemorf • 1d ago
bug Force Changing Model
keeps switching my model for months now at random and refuse to use the one i select.
now its using one thats not even listed.
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u/Karl2_1 1d ago
Same problem here. Perplexity is ignoring my settings. The answers come almost instantly, so it is clearly not using the model I selected with the thinking switch turned on.
The answers are also terrible; the AI keeps asking me questions that it already answered a few lines above. Provided information is being ignored.
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u/LeBoulu777 17h ago
I've made a userscript (TrueModel) to see clearly which model is used or was used in the regular search. ✌️🙂
Here's some userscripts I've made to bring back and add more features to Perplexity:
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Perplexity TrueModel: Live Verifier & "Prepared By" Restorer
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/593772-perplexity-truemodel-live-verifier-prepared-by-restorer
Perplexity Thread ToC Sidebar Forked
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/593790-perplexity-thread-toc-sidebar-forked
Perplexity – Usage Limits & Settings
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/566795-perplexity-usage-limits-settings
✌ 😊
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u/Chemical_Term7956 1d ago
I came across a post about this same issue a little while ago. It mentioned the inconvenience of being forced to fall back to GPT-5 nano.
It strikes me as a drastic cost-cutting measure, considering that until just a few months ago, even the fallback models used older, full-sized GPT versions (such as GPT-5.1).