I've spent some time browsing /r/CharacterAI and the (teenagers?) are enraged over what seems like a swap of models. I've just read a 3-pages long rant on how the bots "suddenly got worse" at what it seems like... romantic roleplay? People are actually using these things for... 😨
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But what else might “normal” mean besides “not literally apocalyptic”? Some of the disappointment around GPT-5 had less to do with its capabilities in the abstract than with the voice and personality effected by the ChatGPT chatbot: Less sycophantic, less fawning, less friendly than GPT-4.