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ChatGPT: The Decline of a Once-Brilliant Tool

Ali Farhat on October 27, 2025

There was a time when ChatGPT actually worked. When it understood nuance, remembered context, and delivered content exactly the way you asked for i...
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HubSpotTraining

It keeps rewriting my prompts as if it knows better. Who approved this nonsense?

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Ali Farhat

That’s what happens when alignment outweighs usability. The model assumes safety equals intelligence, but it’s actually censorship wrapped in code.

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shemith mohanan

Powerful post. If you’re open to it, could you share 2–3 “before vs after” prompts where the exact same input now fails (formatting, markdown fidelity, or refusal)? I’ll run them end-to-end and add confirmations to your tracker. The more reproducible cases we collect, the harder this is to ignore.

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Jeremy Strong

To be fair, public Gemini isn't much better. I find Google ai studio chat to be great, and Grok if I want recent+odd

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D7460N • Edited

Right about the time when "open" in OpenAI no longer meant non-profit . . .

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Rolf W

It apologizes after every mistake and then repeats it again. It’s like talking to a wall that learned manners.

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Ali Farhat

Spot on. Politeness without precision is useless. Real intelligence means learning, not looping apologies.

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Jan Janssen

OpenAI keeps saying it’s getting smarter. But smarter for who?

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Ali Farhat

Good question. Smarter should mean more useful, not more restricted. Until they relearn that difference, this decline will continue.

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BBeigth

It refuses to follow simple formatting rules. I ask for markdown, and it dumps random HTML. Every time.

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Ali Farhat

You’re describing the same behavior I see daily 🧐