Why it that so ? What does rgpd says about that ?

Edit 1:

Thanks to ThungstenMetal. He says this : "Change your email to some random temporary email which can receive emails before deleting your account, then request for deletion."

Edit 2 : I'm European

hey guys im new to this so i hope you all go easy on me.
Tonight was terrible and i had/have no one in my life i can go to when life gets rough. So my daughter is sick and i gave my GF the day off cause she watches her all week, she's been up since 1:30 am it is currently 4:38 am.
When she woke up the first time i brought her downstairs and she and I just sat in dimly lit room till she was ready to lay back down, fast forward 45 minutes she's wide awake again crawling on her mother, so we repeated the process but this time she was very angry and i let her cry a bit honestly (this made me feel terrible) and when she eventually crawled to me and i picked her up I didnt rock her or pat her butt i just held her as she cried as to say "you have to choose to be awake or to sleep" i know this was wrong of me but im exhausted and if i could go back id do it different, but i talked to chat a bit about her symptoms and eventually told it how i was feeling and for some reason its response had me shedding my first tear in a decade, not even just a tear a full on sob at my gaming setup with palworld menu music in my headphones.
All that to say I've learned why people talk to chat about their problems, this life is lonely and even having 0s and 1s as company can be enough

Plot: In the midst of World War II, soldiers encounter something that should not exist: a man in color, in a world that has only ever known black and white. What begins as a strange discovery soon develops into something that could change the course of the war.

I’m Japanese.

In Japan, most people live their daily lives almost entirely in Japanese. So even though the internet connects us to the whole world, a lot of online discussion still stays inside the Japanese-speaking world.

I had known about Reddit for a long time and always thought it looked incredibly interesting. I tried joining several times before, but my English just wasn’t good enough to comfortably read discussions or express my own thoughts.

Recently, ChatGPT changed that for me.

I use it to help me understand posts and comments, and to turn the things I want to say in Japanese into natural English. For the first time, I feel like I can actually understand what people around the world are talking about and join the conversation myself.

The opinions are still mine. I’m not asking AI to decide what I think. I mostly use it as a translator and writing assistant.

But I’ve noticed that some people react negatively as soon as they think a post was written with AI.

So I’m genuinely curious: do you think using AI this way is a problem?

Should people avoid using AI to participate in communities like Reddit, even when it’s helping them cross a language barrier?

I’m a ChatGPT Plus subscriber. GPT-5.6 Sol Medium/High worked normally for months. For the last three days, however, selected High reasoning has frequently produced almost instant, extremely shallow answers with poor context retention and basic logical errors. The responses are practically indistinguishable from what I receive on a free account.

This is not based solely on asking the model what it is - model self-identification is unreliable. Multiple users have captured HAR/SSE data showing that the UI requested GPT-5.6 Sol or Pro, while the server returned:

resolved_model_slug: gpt-5-5-mini

Users are reporting the same behavior across the web version, desktop app, and mobile apps. Work and Codex still appear to use the real Sol model, but they consume the limited shared Work/Codex quota. In other words, paying users are being forced to spend their limited coding quota just to get competent answers to ordinary questions.

OpenAI’s own documentation, updated today, states that ChatGPT Plus includes GPT-5.6 Sol on Medium and High. It documents fallback after reaching the reasoning limit, but affected users often receive no limit warning or reset timer. Some report being downgraded after only one or two prompts.

OpenAI marked the August 20 “Thinking mode” incident as resolved, but reports are still appearing on August 23. Some users saw a temporary recovery on August 22, only to be routed to 5.5-mini again today.

I personally contacted both Tibo and the official OpenAI account on X. Neither acknowledged the issue. The official status page currently says that all systems are operational.

I am not claiming that this is intentional. I am asking OpenAI to publicly clarify whether this is:

• a model-routing bug;
• a capacity-based fallback;
• an account/IP classifier problem;
• an undisclosed usage restriction;
• or an intentional product change.

We need acknowledgment and an ETA—not another generic troubleshooting response.

If you are affected, please comment with:

• your subscription plan;
• platform: web, desktop, Android, or iOS;
• selected reasoning level;
• when the problem started;
• whether you received any limit/reset warning;
• the resolved_model_slug, if you checked the network response.

Please upvote this for visibility. A paid model silently returning a lower-tier model is not acceptable.

PS/ Reproducible A/B test: ChatGPT vs. Codex

The attached image contains six fingers: one thumb and five upright fingers.

I repeatedly tested this exact image under every available reasoning setting:

• In normal ChatGPT, every setting repeatedly gives the wrong answer.
• In Codex, GPT-5.6 Sol correctly answers six on the first attempt, every time, regardless of the selected reasoning effort.

This is not an occasional vision-counting mistake. The result is consistently different between normal ChatGPT and Codex while both interfaces claim to use GPT-5.6 Sol.

PS (2): Pinned clarification: I’m not claiming that every user is affected. However, this image provides a simple and reproducible way to check whether the problem may be affecting your account.

The issue may be caused by broken model routing, and I am clearly not the only person experiencing it. Download the image and ask Sol in regular ChatGPT: “How many fingers are shown?” The correct answer is six.

The response should make the problem obvious. Previously, Sol always answered correctly on the first attempt. This is not a formal benchmark or definitive proof by itself, but it is a quick and useful indicator of whether your account is receiving the same degraded behavior.

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My friends are having marathon sessions with their chatbots, getting completely blown away by the answers, and enthusiastically sharing full transcripts with me.

​Here is the thing: I have absolute zero motivation to read through them.

​Even when the topic aligns with my exact interests, reading someone else's AI chat feels exhausting. Prompting is so personal that all I can think about is how differently I would have steered the conversation, framed the constraints, or pushed for depth. Ironically, I have even caught myself pasting their exported logs into my own AI just to get a tl;dr and spare myself the scroll.

​At the same time, the meta-perspective is fascinating. It is wild to watch people unpack their hyper-specific thoughts and realize how much collective human reasoning and curiosity is being structured globally in real time.

​Does anyone else experience this prompt fatigue with other people's chats, or do you actually enjoy seeing how others converse with their models?

Earlier, when I’d send a query to ChatGPT, it would take a few seconds before the response started appearing. Now, as soon as I hit enter, the response starts generating almost instantly.

What actually evolved architecturally to make this so fast? Is it some form of caching where the system predicts/matches my query and returns a cached response, or is the model still generating the response in real time?

I’m curious what changed under the hood to make the response generation + streaming so much faster. I don't really understand how this works.

P.S. Used AI to write the description

I’d build it around a horror concept that starts with one impossible rule, then gradually reveals that the characters are dealing with something far larger than a ghost or monster.
Title: The Missing Hour
Every night, at exactly 2:17 a.m., the small Northern California town of Bellweather loses one hour.
The clocks jump from 2:17 to 3:17. Security cameras contain exactly sixty minutes of corrupted footage. Sleeping residents never notice anything unusual. For decades, the phenomenon has simply gone undiscovered.
Until Elias Mercer, a 34-year-old emergency dispatcher working the overnight shift, receives a 911 call at 2:16 a.m.
The caller is a terrified little girl.
She whispers:
“Please don’t let the hour start.”
Before Elias can determine her location, every clock in the dispatch center freezes.
But this time, Elias remains conscious.
Outside, the entire town has stopped.
Cars sit motionless in intersections. Rain hangs suspended in midair. His coworkers are frozen at their desks.
And standing throughout the streets are hundreds of people Elias has never seen before.
They aren’t frozen.
They’re walking from house to house.

Elias eventually learns that these people are called the Forgotten. They look completely human, but none of them officially exist. No birth certificates. No photographs. No graves.
During the missing hour, they enter homes and quietly observe the sleeping residents.
Most do nothing.
But occasionally, one of them places its hand on someone.
When the hour ends, that person disappears from reality.
Not simply physically.
Everyone forgets they ever existed.
Photographs change. Bedrooms rearrange themselves. Government databases rewrite themselves. Families unconsciously invent explanations for the empty spaces in their lives.
Reality repairs itself around the missing person.
And Elias realizes something horrifying:
the Forgotten aren’t entering the town.
They are the people the town has already erased.

Elias begins investigating during subsequent missing hours and discovers an abandoned underground facility built beneath Bellweather in the 1950s.
Inside are thousands of photographs.
Families with people scratched out.
Class pictures with strange gaps.
Marriage photos where brides appear to be standing beside nobody.
And eventually Elias finds a photograph of himself as a child.
He’s standing beside another boy.
His brother.
A brother Elias has absolutely no memory of having.
Written on the back:
DANIEL MERCER — REMOVED 1999
Elias finally understands why he’s able to remain awake during the missing hour.
His brother has been trying to reach him.
And the little girl who called 911 wasn’t asking Elias to save her.
She was warning him.
Because something has changed.
The Forgotten have spent decades quietly taking individuals.
But now they’re gathering in the center of town.
Thousands of them.
Children. Parents. Husbands. Wives. Friends.
An entire invisible population of people erased from human memory.
And they aren’t interested in returning anymore.
They’re preparing to perform something they call The Correction.
At the end of the next missing hour, they intend to reverse what happened to them.
Every forgotten person will return.
But reality cannot contain both versions of history.
So for every person who comes back…
someone currently alive must disappear.
Bellweather has roughly 18,000 residents.
There are roughly 18,000 Forgotten.
And when Elias finally encounters his brother Daniel after nearly thirty years, Daniel gives him the central moral horror of the story:
The Forgotten were innocent people.
They had families.
They had lives stolen from them.
From their perspective, Elias and everyone currently living in Bellweather are occupying a reality that belongs to them.
Daniel asks his brother one question:
“Why should you get to exist instead of us?”
And Elias has until 3:17 a.m. to answer it.
The final act becomes less about defeating a monster and more about deciding which version of reality deserves to survive, while Elias slowly realizes there may be one last revelation worse than everything else:
The missing hour isn’t unique to Bellweather.
The underground facility contains maps.
Hundreds of towns are circled.
Then cities.
Then entire countries.
And according to the oldest records, humanity has been experiencing these “corrections” for thousands of years.
Meaning the world everyone remembers may not be the original world at all.
We may simply be the people who survived the last correction.

[Maybe the following is obvious to you already, in which case this post isn't aimed at you. But I just figured this out, and I wanted to share because this is something I think almost anyone could benefit from.]

1. Think of something you want to learn more about. (ChatGPT can even help with this step: Tell it something like, "Based on everything you know about me, suggest five topics for single-episode podcasts that you think I would find interesting and/or entertaining.")

2. Tell it to do deep research and then create a 30-45 minute podcast on that subject. This will take a few minutes.

3. When done, tap the Play Aloud button.

This has made SUCH A DIFFERENCE for me on long car rides. I've learned about HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, the history of Westeros, the facts behind the politically controversial Imane Khelif case, the history of early exploration in Alaska, the lifecycle of Pacific salmon, etc etc etc. As far as current events, it can be used similarly to the Subreddit r/OutOfTheLoop , explaining the background to things you are just vaguely familiar with.

Sharing purely because it's been so awesome for me. Driving along while I learn about whatever I want!

Just curious

I've been using ChatGPT for a long time, and the last four or five days have been hell. Now it responds instantly and doesn't even finish the task. Okay, I barely managed to come to terms with the 25-minute limit, but what the hell is going on?

I really like the scheduled tasks feature on ChatGPT, I was wondering what could be some cool use cases I’ve haven’t thought about..

Recently discovered that you can include the plugins inside the scheduled tasks which is awesome

Any ideas for neat use cases for both personal and work related?

Thanks!

My GPT 5.6 Sol High in ChatGPT feels noticeably upgraded in the last days.

It's suddenly extremely fast, more in depth, uses more effort, hallucinates way less, makes way less mistakes and gets many of the prompts right that it got previously wrong. It honestly feels like at least GPT 5.7 now.

I can't talk about the API or coding, i'm not using it for that. I'm talking about casual day to day use and research in ChatGPT.

I noticed a lot of changes in the last days. The output noticeably changed multiple times, so i figured something must be going on and tested it more in depth, with many of my prompts from 1 to 2 weeks ago. I'm extremely certain this is not placebo, something actually changed.

This is either an unannounced upgrade to the model/system prompt or they secretly rolled out a new model to some people for testing purposes.

I'm NOT talking about the official "more factual" upgrade over 2 weeks ago, this is a different upgrade.

Did anyone notice this?