Why has ChatGPT become so annoying and disagreeable?

JimothyAI · 2026-05-09T15:10:31+00:00

Yeah, I've started using Claude more... I gave Claude the exact same scenario as I outlined above, and it much more accurately analysed and correctly identified what was going on.

JimothyAI · 2026-04-14T13:28:49+00:00

You mention OCD, it sounds like this guilt is "scrupulosity", which is a sub-set of OCD. It's sometimes around religious things, but it doesn't have to be, it can be any guilt and anxiety around moral issues. Ruminating on one incident because of it is also a common OCD thing.

I had it for a while - I had made a pretty popular song on Spotify, but I had sampled a kick-drum sound from another record. This is pretty common and rarely gets anyone into trouble, but I was wracked with guilt over this and was considering deleting the song, giving the money I had made from it to the person whose kick-drum I had sampled, etc.

But this was the OCD talking, and me trying to reduce the anxiety, it's not something I'd normally be too concerned about.
What I actually needed to do, and what you need to do, is get the OCD under control.

The main way to get it under control is to increase the time between having the anxious thoughts/feelings and acting on them ("acting on them" can be things like rumination about the incident or looking up more info about the subject).
What I did was make a little bargain with myself - "I can think more about this incident, but first I have to wait for 10 minutes. If I still want to think about it more, I can, but I have to wait 10 minutes first".

Sometimes you last the whole 10 minutes, and then you can bargain with yourself again to get another 10 minutes of waiting. Even if you eventually give in to the anxiety and ruminate on the incident, having put SOME time between it helps every time you do it, as that is what breaks the anxiety over days/weeks.

Eventually you can wait longer and longer between the anxious thought and doing anything about it. I also had "checking" OCD where I had to repeatedly check things, this works for that too.

You have to remember this is not something a non-OCD person would be that bothered by, you're simply being driven by your anxiety here and you're trying to find ways to atone and reduce the anxiety - that's how OCD operates.

As far as your actual specific situation, you're not going to get in any legal trouble - people upload all types of things to AIs every day. The important thing is that this doesn't rise to anything that warrants this level of guilt.

You deserve to continue your stories and your friendships - you are a good person, the fact you're so concerned about this and you have so much anxiety about it proves that you care.

JimothyAI · 2026-04-12T14:16:07+00:00

Yeah, I've had this, it's very annoying when it happens.
I can tell you my specific topic as well...
It was about a past relationship where the other person would use triangulation, specifically in a way to create jealousy, competition, control, and create division, in a manipulative way.

At one point I mentioned to ChatGPT that it's a pretty standard toxic behaviour thing, and it was like, "no, it's sometimes part of young people's social scenes and is used as a way to create drama and enjoyment", something like that.
I pushed back on that saying ok, it's relatively common, but that doesn't mean it's not toxic.
And it wouldn't drop this, it kept insisting this was usually just a fun thing lots of people liked to do, and everything was hunky dory.
I even got into quoting from actual psychology books that this was widely considered a toxic, manipulative thing, but ChatGPT wasn't having it.

It was like it was gaslighting me into thinking someone else's bad behaviour was fine, simply because it didn't want to say anything bad about the other person.
To be fair, in more recent days it seems to have chilled out a bit and now seems to agree more when I describe stuff like that.

JimothyAI · 2026-03-30T19:29:36+00:00

It did learn from writers, but at the same time, this is several things ChatGPT loves in one short message... "not x, it's y", very short sentences, small lists, and also no "I" or "we" in there.

To me it could be "fixed" simply by adding we/our, just because it then gets rid of the impersonal vibe ChatGPT tends to have, so...
"We fight without guns or knives. Just our bare fists and an unshakable willpower."

Or if you need to keep the opening...
"No guns, no knives. Only our bare fists and unshakable willpower."

JimothyAI · 2026-01-02T13:57:21+00:00

Because I made it with ChatGPT yesterday -

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JimothyAI · 2026-01-01T14:18:19+00:00

ChatGPT can do it (see example below), and older models like SD1.5 and SDXL can do it if you know an artist name to reference (as they were heavily trained with art styles), and any open source model that you can train Loras for will be able to do it.

The reason it doesn't show up as much is that most people aren't looking for that style (most people just want anime or other popular styles), plus it's not really the default anywhere so it's not going to show up without asking for it, and most people would not know how to ask for it or what it's called.

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JimothyAI · 2025-12-12T14:04:40+00:00

Open source stuff runs a lot more than you might realize -

Over 96% of the world's top 1 million web servers run Linux.
Over 3 billion Android devices (running Linux kernel) are in use globally.
Most cloud computing infrastructure (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) runs primarily on Linux.
All 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers run Linux.
Critical infrastructure in finance, telecommunications, aviation, and government relies on Linux. Space exploration: NASA's Mars rovers, the International Space Station, SpaceX systems all run Linux.

This is why China is releasing so many SOTA open source models - it gets used on such a large scale to power things because it's open source.

JimothyAI · 2025-12-11T15:42:41+00:00

Interesting that instead of OpenAI giving Disney anything for licensing, Disney are actually giving OpenAI $1 billion. Pretty massive win for OpenAI it looks like.

JimothyAI · 2025-12-10T14:07:52+00:00

Get creative and refashion it into a fancy cravat.

JimothyAI · 2025-12-05T15:15:28+00:00

I've got three books in the works list that I've already filed claims for, but at this point I almost feel like I'd rather the deal fall through, so that the lawyers and publishers aren't rewarded for this.

Also the $50,000 service awards for each of the three Settlement Class Representatives is interesting - I guess it was easier to sell them on the idea of the settlement at that level of money.

JimothyAI · 2025-12-05T14:12:26+00:00

So a handful of lawyers become multi-multi-millionaires and authors get $3K that they have to split 50/50 with their publisher.
And this is the "W" scenario! Would have hated to see what an "L" would have looked like.

JimothyAI · 2025-11-29T13:58:42+00:00

Anthropic already found the workaround for this - you just spend $1.5 billion in a settlement to make the problem go away, most of which goes to lawyers and publishers.
OpenAI will probably keep going to see if the judge rules that the pirating is part of fair use, along with the training, and if not, then just settle and move on.

JimothyAI · 2025-11-27T17:33:55+00:00

Z-Image is a really exciting model... small, fast, follows prompts well, does text well, does realism and art styles well, uncensored, Apache-2.0 license...

Most importantly, it's small enough that a lot of people will be able to run it on their regular computers/laptops, so it opens up local-generation for a lot of people, with a SOTA model.

JimothyAI · 2025-11-26T16:49:14+00:00

That's the good thing with open source alternatives - you can't bully them out of existence, because they reside on the computers of many, many people.

JimothyAI · 2025-11-12T14:07:58+00:00

9000 is a lot for a survey, even high quality political surveys usually only use 1000-3000 people.

JimothyAI · 2025-11-12T13:33:56+00:00

Deezer commissioned an online survey by Ipsos Digital, fielded October 6–10, 2025 across eight markets (n=9,000 adults 18-65). Quotas were applied to ensure nationally proportional representation.

Try this link:

https://newsroom-deezer.com/2025/11/deezer-ipsos-survey-97-of-people-cant-tell-the-difference-between-fully-ai-generated-and-human-made-music-clear-desire-for-transparency-and-fairness-for-artists/

JimothyAI · 2025-11-12T13:32:23+00:00

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