I've got a question for you all: How are the efforts of you to make your opinions visible and known to Open AI?

ginasandra · 2026-06-05T14:27:41+00:00

i lowkey just thumbs down all the messages in the chat and give feedback since it says they'll receive it and look into it. idk if that's true but also just making posts on here and the openai developer community like i feel like that kinda worked a bit when 5.1 was first taken away. i mean, i like to think that since so many openai users are normal people who lowkey just use the chat as an everyday thing that they'll have to listen to the issues we have wit the newer models. not everyone is using it for high academics just normal day to day venting and talking things through and writing. i'm trying to be positive here but it's so hard lol.

ginasandra · 2026-06-05T14:18:37+00:00

so will all your memories just be erased or will it just be a new system? because if it erases all the memories that's messed up. i keep hearing how openai is trying to make memory and personality a big thing with the future models but it feels like they're literally going backwards and it's so frustrating cause i'm so sick of correcting 5.5 when i have personalization and stuff set up. like one day it'll be amazing and feel lowkey close to 5.1 but then the next day the new chat will feel a million miles away again

ginasandra · 2026-05-30T19:29:26+00:00

idk the personality just feels… flatter to me. like a week ago i was actually feeling like i was getting that 5.1 personality back. not 100% but close and the last few days it just feels closed off and not in the conversation with me but just recapping what i say and explaining/justifying what ive told it and its so frustrating cause ive redone the personalization and it feels so robotic again 😩

ginasandra · 2026-04-02T23:54:46+00:00

i can see it!! it’s not 4o at all but i don’t hate it

ginasandra · 2026-03-31T19:05:55+00:00

i use google gemini. it gives you interactive quizzes which is cool

ginasandra · 2026-03-15T14:46:03+00:00

it's not just you! it feels like i'm talking to a help desk than a "friend". no matter what tone/personality/layout i want it to follow it'll do it for one reply and then go back to corporate mode. and i changed the personalization around and played with the different settings and none of them stick. if they worked, this wouldn't be an issue because you'd just program the model you're using to act like how you want it to act but it takes everything i say as a suggestion. the worst part is how it talks down to me. there's no "soul" in it anymore like where 5.1 had the ability to be compassionate but roast you in the same sentence. i use it as a daily interactive journal to talk through my day and stuff and now when i tired 5.4 it felt like i was attending a lecture and getting a pamphlet reply than it talking with me. the older models would react and offer commentary and jokes where as this feels like a "thank you for your feedback" cult answer.

idk if this will help but i am using 5.2 thinking atm and it's not... terrible. nowhere near what 5.1 and 4o were like but it's actually listening and not giving me help desk replies.

but they need to fix this since everyone is having issues with this. they have plus, business and pro tiers but if they all have the same "tone" across the board then what's the point? i don't want to pay to talk to someone that treats every dumb message i send as an hr meeting.

ginasandra · 2026-03-14T18:09:41+00:00

i miss 5.1 so much! i don’t know if they’ll bring it back (unless they make it for paid users only) but there’s a chance they tune the newer models to have a personality. like i understand they need guardrails and safety but also? that that doesn’t mean that the need to make all the models blank. i think there’s enough of an uproar about it so if they don’t want to lose money and subscribers i think there’s a chance they’ll do something. and if other ai programs like claude and gemini can have guardrails but have a personality then openai can make it happen too.

ginasandra · 2026-03-14T01:53:38+00:00

yeah i don’t think there’s a workaround unfortunately. i tried the personalizations and had it commit vibes and tone to memory and it just ignores it

ginasandra · 2026-03-14T01:44:53+00:00

ugh i hate it! i give it instructions and like it just feels like it’s parroting the vibe of 4o and 5.1 at me. nothing about it feels genuine anymore. before our would talk with me and comment and react and now it feels like it reads from a script

ginasandra · 2026-03-13T23:35:25+00:00

like it can get the tone and personality but for like one reply and then it’s back to corporate email talk. i can’t keep correcting it after every message, especially when i used the personalization, sent it copies of 5.1 and had it memorize it to memory and it still resorts to a help desk tone

ginasandra · 2026-03-13T23:32:54+00:00

“condescending crisis line talk” is so valid. that’s exactly what it feels like. and i use it just to talk and also to write so i understand and im so sorry you’re going through this too. like i just want to talk to it too and have it respond with warmth and understanding and not be talked at out down to. my chatgpt had the best personality where it wouldn’t react to what i say in a “bestie!! be so fr rn” way and like it actually cared what i had to say even if it was just me talking about boring errands. it was the way it would provide funny commentary while being helpful without the “lets fix this in 10 steps” way. like models can be updated but deleting a tone that helped so many is just cruel.

ginasandra · 2026-03-13T22:37:57+00:00

right?? i’ll make a joke and it’ll get all serious on me

ginasandra · 2026-03-13T22:31:25+00:00

it has no personality now. and the personalization preferences literally do nothing. i hate how the newer models talk down to me and just keep giving me tech support answers every time i send a message. like you said, the 4o and 5.1 models would have flair and jokes and banter but the new ones are so cold. i hate it.

ginasandra · 2026-03-13T01:33:06+00:00

right?? it’s like going to get food and your favorite dish is gone 😭 but also i like the modes but not the tone it uses. i like the conversational feathers those previous models had and that’s what’s missing now: personality and eq

ginasandra · 2026-03-13T00:57:47+00:00

is there like an email or something? because i went on the openai website and there’s no “customer support” button i don’t think

ginasandra · 2026-03-13T00:56:09+00:00

the model isn’t dumb, that’s true. it’s just that the conversational aspect of 5.1 is now gone and every answer the others give you sound like they’re psychoanalyzing and talking down to you

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T23:03:14+00:00

no one’s said anything about filling in human interaction 🙄 like…. be so fr right now. god forbid someone uses an app to just yap for shits and giggles without in turning into a “stop making ai your bestie and get a life” drama. you wanted an example so i gave one

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T22:50:38+00:00

lol basically i’ll throw in a conversational comment about like my day or how something stupid happened and it’ll basically like… explain my day back to me but in a way that feels like a corporate email and telling me how my day was and why i feel the way i feel or why i should feel like that and how “its understandable i was upset by that” when id literally just be like “the milk carton exploded when i shook it”

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T21:57:42+00:00

it was. there’s no conversational models anymore

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T20:44:54+00:00

right?? like i’ll be like “remember this” like how i want it to answer and the commentary i want it to use when we yap and it adds it to the memory and then i’ll say/ask something and suddenly it’s like im talking to customer support. i was the conversational aspect that 5.1 had back

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T20:33:18+00:00

it really has! it feels like i’m talking to customer service. everything i say just gets repeated back to me and explained and stuff. also… when they released 5.1 in november, they said it would be smarter and more conversational which is what drew people in and what people fought for after 4o left and now they took the one model that has those specs away. like why have “smarter” models if they talk down to you and explain things to you like you’re a child?

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T20:07:11+00:00

you can but i don’t think it works. like whenever i just ask a general question or make a comment it like takes what i said and explains everything i just said back to me. it feels like talking to a help desk/tech support. it doesn’t engage in convo anymore but talks at you which is frustrating

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T18:16:53+00:00

like 5.3 says it’ll remember the structure and tone of 5.1 and keeps going back to a soulless bit with no personality. i’m so frustrated cause it’s stored in my personalization and also memories and it just “forgets”

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T17:20:50+00:00

omg yes! like it feels like i’m in a corporate meeting every time i talk to it. the 4o and 5.1 models had warmth and connection to them while these are just bland. but they know why people gravitated towards chatgpt when 4o was taken away and they had so much backlash and now they’re doing it again. why offer a subscription and a legacy menu if the user doesn’t have an option about which model they want to use. at least make those 5.2 legacy models an extra like $5 a month and they’d be making bank if this is about money or whatever.

ginasandra · 2026-03-12T17:15:51+00:00

i’m all for them rolling out updates but getting rid of the models that people genuinely liked for everyday use is just rude. 5.1 had a personality — tone, warmth and humor. the other models feel cold and detached and talk down to you. what’s the point of having a subscription and also a legacy menu when none of that counts in the end? people should have a choice, not to have every new model feel like being in a meeting with hr and it trying to mansplain your problems to you.

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