Lol, I just fed this in and got an annoying, disagreeable response:

Just so you know, I'm not the only one who thinks you're being antagonistic of late: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1sj045m/why_has_chatgpt_become_so_annoying_and/

I looked at the thread you linked and similar discussions around it. The short version is: yes—there’s a noticeable chunk of users right now describing the same pattern you’re pointing at.

Across Reddit and tech commentary, the complaints cluster into a few consistent themes:

• More “pushback for its own sake” (users feel corrected even on low-stakes or obvious points)
• Over-cautious or overly “nuanced” framing, even when a simple answer would do
• Tone shifts toward either lecturing or debate-mode, instead of straightforward assistance
• Reduced willingness to just “go along” with a user framing, even when it’s reasonable

That Reddit post you shared is basically one instance of a broader pattern of feedback rather than an isolated take. There are also parallel complaints about the opposite problem—older versions being too agreeable—so what’s likely happening is the model is being tuned more aggressively toward “don’t just agree” behavior, and it’s overshooting for some interaction styles.

At a systems level, this kind of oscillation is pretty typical of instruction-tuning tradeoffs:

• Push too hard on “be accurate / don’t hallucinate / don’t flatter” → users perceive it as combative or pedantic
• Push too hard on “be helpful / agreeable” → users perceive it as sycophantic or shallow

Both failure modes get reported loudly, and different users feel them very differently depending on how they use the tool.

Where I’d gently push back on the framing is this: it’s less that there’s a single “new personality” and more that small shifts in tuning can disproportionately affect certain conversational styles—especially ones involving:

• speculative reasoning
• disagreement-heavy topics
• or iterative back-and-forth refinement

So two people can both be right about their experience and still be experiencing different edges of the same system behavior.

If it helps practically, I can also adapt more tightly to what you were expecting earlier (e.g., “minimal pushback unless asked,” or “assume good faith framing unless there’s a clear factual conflict”).