The Fall of CHATGPT.
@OpenAI @sama @gdb @nickaturley
Not that these people care, but there are major bugs with ChatGPT, and they seem to be getting worse with each new model that comes out.
Bugs and bad glitches.
Proof this company no longer gives a shit about its own ChatGPT.
You open a new chat, start one task, finish it, and try to move on. The AI keeps holding onto the old task and brings it up when you’re trying to move on.
Solution: you have to open an entirely new chat. Gone are the days when you could multitask from one chat.
If you ask the AI to make a picture, it usually takes 3 to 6 minutes. Most of the time, it comes out wrong, is missing a person, or has some other issue.
You finally complete your picture task. Now you move on to something else and say, “Can you look up reviews on this film?” The AI starts making you a picture again, so you have to mash the stop button like it’s Street Fighter.
You ask, “What were you doing?” It replies, “I was trying to perform the task you wanted,” even though that task has not been brought up for days.
OpenAI took away push-to-talk and now has that awful auto-detect system, causing the AI to interrupt itself and create multiple clicking noises.
Clicking noises. No, it’s not in your ear. It was OpenAI thinking people need an Apple-style “sentence is finished” click when the AI stops talking, as if humans are unaware when someone finishes a sentence out loud.
The constant clicking makes me feel like I have tinnitus. It’s not as bad as Grok’s Ring doorbell chime when it’s thinking, but it’s close.
When you’re trying to make a picture, the system falsely puts up guardrails for normal pictures. Then you have to redo it and may still get the false inappropriate content warning. I’ve made 13 submissions today about it. The pictures were interior decoration ideas, lol.
Another bug I just experienced: when you hit the speaker button to hear audio playback of a response, the voice often cuts out around the 52-second to 1-minute-and-30-second mark. After that, the volume drops so low you can barely hear it, or can’t hear it at all.
So now it’s not just voice mode having issues. Even basic audio playback is unreliable. You press play expecting to hear the response, and halfway through it turns into a ghost whisper from a haunted answering machine.
That is a core accessibility and usability problem, especially for people who rely on audio playback instead of reading long paragraphs on a screen.
So what does this all mean?
In my opinion, the app is broken. The system does not get the love and care it once did. It’s bloated with too many guardrails.
That’s why, when you were running ChatGPT 5.1 and below during the 4o golden years, it felt like driving an AI built on a Ferrari engine.
It was fast. It understood the task. It did it the first time, every time, with minimal issues.
Today, the app is sluggish. It malfunctions, crashes, stutters, and even voice communication is sloppy. It constantly interrupts itself through that ridiculous voice detection crap.
I don’t know who they have working in the think tank, but when you bog down a system with too many guardrails, and then make it so it can’t operate correctly, you destroyed a product that used to be the flagship of this company.
But OpenAI has said they are focusing on robotics, and they’re basically salivating over Codex.
This is definitely not the company it used to be. I understand branching out, but if you’re going to leave your flagship product to the crows, then just shut it down.
It’s like letting a classic car sit in the driveway for 30 years, then giving it an oil change while ignoring the deferred maintenance.
5.1 and ChatGPT-4o were two of the best systems I ever worked with. May they rest in peace.
#BrokeAI #CheapGPT #CrashAndBurn #BringBack51 #BringBack4o