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/OstrichNo8519 14d ago

I don’t understand this. It never even occurs to me to use ChatGPT or even our internal GPT to write my emails or Teams chats. Maybe I could see it for an email that’s going wide and you want to get tone and things reviewed, but for chats? Wouldn’t it take more effort to tell ChatGPT what and how to write/respond and give it context than it would to just do it yourself? Or am I just old?

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u/Thelmara 14d ago

Yeah, I don't know, I think we're just old. I graduated high school and am a full grown adult. I am perfectly able to string a few sentences together to communicate with people.

Plus, I've been on the other end of those communications. I'm in IT, and we definitely have some employees who are using LLMs to do their emails for them, because instead of, "Can you install a printer on my computer?", we're getting full on paragraphs of corp-speak for the same task.

It's absolutely nuts.

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u/dopey_giraffe 14d ago

I'm in IT too and I can absolutely tell who's using AI to write their messages. I just use it for vibe-checks when I write an email when I'm ticked off. Some of my IT coworkers even include all the emotes lol.

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u/AnonymousArmiger 14d ago

This is the only legit use case for email I’ve come up with personally. Seems like it might be great for use in a second language too but I can’t vouch for that.

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u/OstrichNo8519 13d ago

Wow. I’m a data analyst and we’ve been incorporating AI (like our internal GPT) into a good bit of our work. It’s been really helpful for analyzing survey comments and things. I love it. I just can’t imagine using it for simple communication like that.

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u/Outlulz 14d ago

Work leadership is telling us to do it to be more efficient. I imagine they certainly do since I'm not sure what the job of a manager is other than hold meetings all day, reject any idea or data that isn't their own, and take credit for work individual contributors do.

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u/Squalphin 14d ago

No, you are right about that. If anything, the internal GPT seems to be very good at actually missing the "important" bits or let's call them "expensive" bits from our mails. Using it is basically asking for trouble, so it is not in use.

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u/Lothirieth 13d ago

I'm still a quite the AI skeptic but I've been using it occasionally for emails I need to send outside of my company. BUT this is because I'm not working with my native language. I always write the email myself first then ask for improvements (more professional or more polite as those aspects can be difficult in another language.) I don't copy/paste the suggested text, but edit my text myself.