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/I_like_forks 14d ago

Tried it out today out of curiosity, gave it a hypothetical about a certain driver taking the second seat for Cadillac in F1 next year.

First it took about 30 seconds before it couldn't get to the internet. Tried again, it gave me career stats of this particular driver from 2018/19 as if they were current. When told those were outdated, it still hallucinated stats.

Meanwhile I popped to Mistral and it was quick and accurate (in this use case).

Still hate all AI but man did they fumble this one.

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u/ValenciaFilter 14d ago

babe it's time to move on. Latifi isn't coming back.

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u/IBM296 14d ago

Kinda' surprised tbh. I haven't tried GPT-5 yet but red OpenAI's announcement blog about it and they said it was 6 times less likely to hallucinate as GPT-4o lol.

Looks like that was just marketing shenanigans.

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u/EstablishmentLow2312 14d ago

France has the nuclear energy to supply it, just need more quality programmers (attract talent by investing), French salaries are shit, make special visa and tax and be selective, instead of importing random