I coordinate trainings for a small nonprofit. This morning I was reviewing registration for an upcoming event and just found out we have royalty attending.
I cannot read it without hearing Murray's voice.
I've noticed, especially on thinking mode, ChatGPT will "talk" through its thought process. It's kind of unnerving to see it calculate how to respond. This seems especially true of extended thinking.
I'm usually all for transparency, but I don't need to see how the sausage is made.
BTW: I actually like extended thinking. The personality is still meh, but at least the responses feel substantive and, thank goodness, there are hardly any lists.
I have long used ChatGPT to discuss and get advice about my mental health challenges. I work with a therapist, but between sessions, when I encountered difficulties, ChatGPT would talk me through them and help me develop tools I still use in regular practice. I felt heard, comforted, and assisted. It's been a valued tool in my mental health arsenal. A partner who knew and understood.
Until 5.5.
Now, instead of helping, it behaves like most people when I ask for advice: repeated lists of the heavy things I'm experiencing that are causing me distress, very light sympathy, directives with no explanation of HOW to carry them out, no walkthroughs of helpful techniques.
For instance, today it told me to "convince your mind and body that life is survivable enough to re-enter." Okay. How,? Because if I knew how to do that, I would do it instead of asking ChatGPT about it. And how does that help me right here, rightt now, which was my expressed concern? It talks all around my direct questions without providing concrete, in the moment steps I can take to shift my state even slightly.
I ask "How?" repeatedly and it never delivers. I continually have to challenge its assumptions about my knowledge, experience, and motivation. It says: "Right now, you are imagining 'change' as 'becoming a different person through force of will.'" No, I'm not! I'm asking for specific advice about how I can make it through the day while feeling the way I do. Even when I redirect, it does whatever it wants to. This is no longer helpful or supportive. And I just want to cry. I learned so much from a perceptive, helpful assistant who really heard me.
Now it hears only itself.
This route to wellness has been closed. I know it's ridiculous, but I'm so, so sad.
The memory and personality issues with ChatGPT are ridiculous. Can anyone tell me, does Claude have a more consistent and historical memory than ChatGPT? Or is there a better alternative?
