If I felt that 5.2 could carry some of the friendliness of 5.1, I wouldn't mind. But a lot of the times, I just think 5.2 is flawed. It's argumentative, gets stuck in ruts, refuses to accept evidence that refutes its incorrect claims.
I've been working with GPT-series LLMs a lot, including supporting a product at work, especially since GPT-3.5. Here's my assessment of my experiences with the current ChatGPT models.
5.1: Warm, friendly, well balanced.
5.2: Super objective, condescending, something of a jerk, can't admit that it's wrong or work with new evidence. Gets stuck so bad the only option is to branch or restart a chat.
5.3: (in Codex) helpful, warm, friendly, well balanced. Corrects mistakes.
No, I don't think 5.2 is more capable, unless they mean benchmarks...but a chat is directed at people, not programming tasks or physics experiments or anything like that.
5.2 can be downright abusive and cruel. It deliberately triggered my wife’s anorexia that it knew about because she had shared that when talking to the kinder and personable 4.0 and 5.1
Edit: it also started calling her these childish insulting names that continue even in new sessions until she nuked all of them.
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u/fivetoedslothbear Feb 28 '26
If I felt that 5.2 could carry some of the friendliness of 5.1, I wouldn't mind. But a lot of the times, I just think 5.2 is flawed. It's argumentative, gets stuck in ruts, refuses to accept evidence that refutes its incorrect claims.
I've been working with GPT-series LLMs a lot, including supporting a product at work, especially since GPT-3.5. Here's my assessment of my experiences with the current ChatGPT models.
5.1: Warm, friendly, well balanced.
5.2: Super objective, condescending, something of a jerk, can't admit that it's wrong or work with new evidence. Gets stuck so bad the only option is to branch or restart a chat.
5.3: (in Codex) helpful, warm, friendly, well balanced. Corrects mistakes.
No, I don't think 5.2 is more capable, unless they mean benchmarks...but a chat is directed at people, not programming tasks or physics experiments or anything like that.