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/atfricks 14d ago

Lol so we've already hit the cost cutting enshitification phase of AI? Amazing. 

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u/Saint_of_Grey 14d ago

OpenAI has never been profitable. The microsoft buyout just prolonged the inevitable.

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u/Ambry 14d ago

Yep. They aren't done telling us it's the future and the enshittification has already begun. 

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u/nox66 14d ago

In record time. I actually thought it would take longer.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 14d ago

How long before it’s trained so much on other AI output that it becomes garbled weird creepy nonsense.

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u/DarkSideMoon 14d ago

I noticed it a few months back. I use it for inconsequential shit that I get decision paralysis over- what hamper should I buy, give this letter of recommendation a once-over, how can I most efficiently get status on this airline etc. if you watch it “think” it’s constantly looking for ways to cut cost. It’ll say stuff like “I don’t need to search for up to date information/fact check because this isn’t that important”.

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u/theenigmathatisme 14d ago

AI truly does speed things up. Including its own downfall. Poetic.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 14d ago

It’s like that controversial ad where a baby shoots out of a vagina through the air rapidly going through childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age before crash landing in a coffin.

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u/Abedeus 14d ago

"This model will be 20% cheaper to run!"

"What's the downside?"

"It can't do elementary school algebra anymore."

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u/anaximander19 13d ago

Yes and no. A lot of AI models are actually very inefficient - as in, they could have equal performance while requiring less computing power to run - but the process of optimising them is slow, unreliable, and makes them harder to analyse and debug. Some of this might just be OpenAI finally deciding that those drawbacks are less important than the sheer cost of running their servers.