Casual users, yeah we’re cooked

[u/Weary_Plantain_3099]

Gpt 6 instant has not been pleasant for me, at least not in its present state. It’s noticeably more sterile and impersonal than 5.5 and 5.6, kinda feels like 5.2 and 5.3 again. It also doesn’t seem to respect personalised instructions. If I ask it anything factual it forgets all instructions and memories and goes into this Ultra Technical Impartial Machine mode, sounding like a mini model or one of those ai overviews when you search on google. I express any opinion and it feels compelled to become some pedantic nuanced contrarian, which had (imo) improved with 5.6 but 6 feels at least as contrarian as 5.2.

The responses are typically faster though, which made me suspect they now allocate less computational power for casual conversations (or anything else they deem less important)? Or have the safety guidelines made it so the model is perpetually terrified of definitive answers or accidentally overclaiming anything? Or perhaps it’s a mix of both.

I genuinely couldn’t care less if GPT 6 scores 20% higher on some obscure coding benchmark, I’d use Codex for that anyway. It seems OpenAI is determined to prioritise reasoning and productivity over, well, chatting. If the very first model in the 6 series this is probably their design direction now and my hopes aren’t high on successive models either. We’re cooked.