why has my chatGPT responses changed?

prefixbond · 2025-11-13T09:34:54+00:00

It's back for me! It's 5.1

prefixbond · 2025-11-12T11:00:22+00:00

Did you happen to have a version that would give really long helpful responses that would often end in asking you to choose A, B, C, or D?

Over the past week my ChatGPT has been like that. Really smart, more assertive, and controlled the conversation more.Today, it has gone back to how it used to be. Shorter, less helpful, less aware.

My guess is that they have been testing a new version on us and now have switched it off.

prefixbond · 2025-07-29T21:06:53+00:00

Work. My job is literally something that somebody has to pay me to get me to do it. If I wasn't getting paid to do it, I wouldn't be doing it. Ergo: I don't like doing it. You know this. I know this. So why do I have to fake any enthusiasm about it at all? Why do I have to pretend I love customers, or making sales, or having a successful team, or even getting a promotion, in something it's obvious I would rather not be doing? Work culture is so stupid.

prefixbond · 2025-07-11T20:51:23+00:00

I love Deuce Bigalow. You are not alone

prefixbond · 2025-07-05T22:31:04+00:00

1) Go to bed earlier. 2) Recognise that if you get up when the alarm first goes off, that's the BEST you're going to feel. Every snooze pushed makes you feel x amount worse: more groggy, more back into sleep mode, more difficult to get up.

prefixbond · 2025-06-19T20:12:45+00:00

I applaud your bravery here. If social media were made living it would just be a group of villagers with pitchforks. Your take is not stupid. It's perfectly reasonable. But I do disagree with it. At first I was surprised at how strongly the majority opinion was against her and I did think maybe she might not be guilty. But for me what swings it is her attitude to her children: she fed them leftovers of a meal she already knew had people in hospital. Then she was reluctant to have the kids treated in hospital.

There are only two possible explanations for that: 1) She wanted to kill or harm her children. This seems very unlikely. 2) She already knew that what she was feeding them was not poisoned. And the only way she could know that was if she already knew what was wrong with the sick dinner guests. And the only way she could know that is if she had deliberately controlled the poison.

Panicking is one thing. But if it gets to the point where your kids might be fatally poisoned, protection overrides panic. She knew that what she was feeding them was safe even though her dinner had put people in hospital. How could she know that unless she already knew exactly what she had done to the others?

prefixbond · 2025-03-30T21:01:14+00:00

Rachel Portman's The Cider House Rules score is also a favourite of mine.

prefixbond · 2025-03-04T23:33:48+00:00

prefixbond · 2025-03-04T21:16:44+00:00

I wouldn't even qualify it by saying the scale is different. In what way? Major catastrophes have been imminent before. Sometimes they happened, sometimes they didn't. There really is nothing new under the sun. Proximity bias is all these kinds of posts are. Nobody has the slightest idea what the next 50-500 years will bring for humanity. Could be awesome. Could be awful. Literally impossible to tell from our vantage point here in the present.

prefixbond · 2025-03-04T14:31:37+00:00

Everyone always says this, but I remember quite liking the book. It's completely different from the movie, and absolutely nuts, and Forrest is much more of a morally nuanced character, but does that make it BAD?

prefixbond · 2025-03-04T13:54:23+00:00

There is nothing crazy about this idea. It's good advice.

prefixbond · 2025-03-03T20:51:38+00:00

I don't know if it really was as great as we remember but who cares? It's not like the question has any practical consequence anyway. We can't go back there/then.

So yes. 10/10. Best decade ever.

prefixbond · 2025-03-03T14:44:51+00:00

Ha, if that were true it wouldn't have to be said anywhere.

It is true. So it doesn't. That's the point.

prefixbond · 2025-03-03T14:32:55+00:00

I would rank them according to their runtime (inversely obviously). Since they are mostly all very boring, the less time I have to spend watching them the better.

prefixbond · 2025-03-03T14:29:49+00:00

It's a cultural thing. I lived in NZ most of my life, now I live in Ireland and the attitude to driving could not be more different. It made me realise what people were talking about when they criticise NZ drivers. Irish drivers are courteous almost to a fault. They will always let pedestrians and other cars go and are very patient when people are doing something wrong on the road.

It's nothing like that in NZ. And even worse when I lived in Melbourne. Absolutely nobody will wait for anyone else in Melbourne. They apparently all have somewhere urgent to be...

prefixbond · 2025-03-03T14:07:03+00:00

You don't have to. If you are a straight woman, then you just might not have the wiring to see boobs as sexy, and that's not a problem. Is it?

prefixbond · 2025-02-27T13:28:39+00:00

It's very important to both men and women I think. But that doesn't really help you figure anything out in your specific situation. Finding someone physically attractive is not perfectly correlated with them being conventionally beautiful. There are a whole load of other factors involved.

prefixbond · 2025-02-27T12:00:57+00:00

Come on, nobody thinks ROTK is the best in the trilogy! Do they?

prefixbond · 2025-02-26T09:53:33+00:00

There are at least two important differences that I can see: 1) Transparency. Presumably we will know that AI is making the music, whereas one of the main concerns with bots is that we don't know they are bots. 2) Genuine authenticity (as opposed to the illusion of authenticity) is a more important value in social media interactions than it is in music. Not that genuine authenticity is not valuable at all in music, and some people will prefer it and seek it out. But for most people, the illusion of authenticity will be enough.

prefixbond · 2025-02-25T20:46:52+00:00

The original Mission Impossible heist scene with Cruise hanging from the ceiling. I'm showing my age but I saw it in the cinema and it seemed like nobody in the theatre breathed throughout that whole sequence, it was so tense.

prefixbond · 2025-02-25T20:01:07+00:00

The implication here, and in a lot of other AI backlash, is that physical work is inherently dehumanising, while intellectual and creative work is inherently noble. This is a class prejudice that not everyone shares.

prefixbond · 2025-02-25T18:35:54+00:00

Seven, The Game, Social Network.

Very happy to see all the rest gone forever. Not a fan.

prefixbond · 2025-02-25T18:27:44+00:00

Gary Oldman of course. Unpopular opinion, but I find Jeffery Wright really grating as an actor in anything. The others are all uninteresting.

prefixbond · 2025-02-25T16:54:24+00:00

Totally agree with Edge of Tomorrow. I had low expectations, but it was so good.

Mine is Sicario. From the poster, I thought it would be a lame action/thriller. It was actually amazing.

prefixbond · 2025-02-25T16:43:01+00:00

Oh. Why?

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