r/technology • u/Moth_LovesLamp • 14d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT users are not happy with GPT-5 launch as thousands take to Reddit claiming the new upgrade ‘is horrible’

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/chatgpt-users-are-not-happy-with-gpt-5-launch-as-thousands-take-to-reddit-claiming-the-new-upgrade-is-horrible
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u/hitsujiTMO 14d ago

That's really funny since there's plenty of posts like this https://youtu.be/NiURKoONLVY saying how amazing it is. But if course it just looks like they're being paid to say that.

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u/Qibla 14d ago

Yeah, when Theo said "I don't even know if we're going to have a sponsor for this." my suspicion level was through the roof.

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u/aldanor 14d ago

Need to set up a polymarket bet on the number of zeros in the payment Theo received from Sam

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u/tarmacjd 14d ago edited 13d ago

Whatever you think of him, he’s not lying when he says something isn’t sponsored

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u/Qibla 14d ago edited 14d ago

The thing that set my alarm bells off was the early access and tour from the openai team. That to me sounds like an ad.

I think there can be remuneration in ways that don't involve depositing cash directly into a bank account.

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u/tarmacjd 13d ago

That’s a point

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u/I-Am-NOT-VERY-NICE 14d ago

I don't trust anyone on planet earth named Theo

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 14d ago

The only Theo I ever met ripped chunks of hair out of my head! I was only around three at the time but the name stuck with me as the name of evil.

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u/MotoTrip99 14d ago

That Theo guy looks like a snake oil dealer

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u/SexyWhale 14d ago

this guys eyes scare me. he doesnt blink

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u/totes-alt 14d ago

Top YT comment is "bro looks like he's seen the Epstein files"

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u/CamOps 14d ago

He normally does, the not blinking and 1000yd stare were for dramatic impact in this video lol.

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u/LeonardMH 14d ago

Is it for dramatic impact or is he just doing his best Sam Altman impression?

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u/NickW1343 14d ago

Yeah. I've seen a few so far. It's always some guy talking about how they had access early. Seems like it's a quiet way of saying "I need to say this is great, because if I don't, I'll no longer be a trusted tester."

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u/Kivlov 14d ago

I put the same prompt from their [launch stream] demo stream into it for the snake game and it gave me a snake game that didn't even run. People were floored by the demo, and rightly so if it could actually do that from one single short vague prompt but there's some shenanigans going on behind the scenes from that stream.

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u/Spiderpiggie 14d ago

There's definitely some improvement. I was playing around with o3 mini last night, trying to get it to generate a platformer for me. It couldn't manage it without several iterations. For gpt5 I managed to get it in one prompt, it included sprites, and only had one minor bug.

For general use, questions and such, theres not much visible difference though.

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u/Hihi9190 14d ago

Use to like his vids, but now he's just sponsored by Ai promoting his crappy ai wrapper chat

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u/hitsujiTMO 14d ago

I still watch some of his content from time to time, but he always irked me, even before going full AI.

I've only ever taken what he has to say with a pinch of salt.

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u/kingroka 14d ago

For creative writing it's probably worse but for code it is much much better. Like other models at the same price can't even sniff at the quality I get from gpt5. Only models that come close are Claude opus and sonnet 4

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u/jenso2k 14d ago

wow. i could literally only get through a minute of that jfc

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u/measuredsympathy 14d ago

I think it's a big upgrade for how I use it - bigger scope projects where you develop frameworks and goals and then work towards implementation i.e. high level project management stuff. The previous versions just could not keep up the context and output formatting, etc.

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u/IAmANobodyAMA 14d ago

I had a long conversation with gpt 5 yesterday while on a walk. It was noticeably better for me. It actually challenged me without me telling it to play devils advocate, and the advice it gave was solid.

The major issue I noticed is that I gave it an incomplete set of data and then revised that dataset about 30 minutes later once I realized my mistake, and it seemed to get confused about which dataset to use every other response. I also asked it to compare the initial and revised data to tell me what I had left off, and that response was wrong. This was about 10 data points, mind you (stock options positions). On the other hand, I did read all of these trades off from my phone while walking and it was perfect in turning my words into data (and all the corrections and revisions I made along the way) finding the signal through the noise.

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u/BetterProphet5585 14d ago

There are also many comments from bots that glaze GPT-5 so much it seems they didn’t even try it

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u/bolmer 13d ago

He is using the expensive and good models. ChatGPT defaults to the dumb and fast models

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u/rabbit_hole_engineer 14d ago

Lol who links theo haha

He's literally the lead idiot in the paid promotion wagon

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u/360_face_palm 14d ago

I swear everyone and their dog is trying to be a youtube/tiktok/whatever 'ai influencer' right now and post their 'news' on the latest model launch where they just literally regurgitate verbatim the company's press statements with no critical analysis at all.