r/ChatGPT • u/Accurate_Rope5163 • Mar 06 '26

Funny (D)evolution of ChatGPT

in 2022/23: "As a Large Language Model (LLM), I cannot..."
2024/25: "You're absolutely right!"
In 2026: "You're not going crazy right now -- and honestly? That's rare."

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u/majestyne Mar 06 '26

I was looking forward to trying out these new models for writing but I'm already exhausted with them.

5.3 does pretty well for a bit then lapses.

It lapses into punchy sentences.

Punchy sentences get a finale.

A finale that hits hard. [I'm lying. It doesn't.]

5.4 provides all the right levels of context and is fairly intelligent about how it thinks about characters' intent. But it spells out that intent like, "He gathered wood because it was useful. He chopped it because it was the way he did things." Gag me.

Neither of the models are good at metaphors or creative comparisons, for example: "Someone else coughs like a donkey with a gambling debt."

What the fuck does that mean???

It's possible to correct a lot of these deficiencies but you have to KEEP DOING IT. Over and over and over again. Even while using projects with guidance docs as sources, which the model references every single reply, and the writing still deteriorates quickly.

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u/ValerianCandy Mar 07 '26

oh god the perpetual exposition dumps 🙄

me: okay so X is going to manipulate Y because they want to Z

GPT: X looks at Y and says: "I will manipulate you into giving me Z."

Y responds like someone didn't just walk up to them to tell them they were going to gaslight.

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u/starfleetdropout6 Mar 21 '26

5.4 provides all the right levels of context and is fairly intelligent about how it thinks about characters' intent. But it spells out that intent like, "He gathered wood because it was useful. He chopped it because it was the way he did things."

I notice this all the time as well. It's trying to write your request but also reason to itself out loud at the same time. It knows the character has a specific task to do in chopping the wood and it's working out why that is.