‘I lost my only friend’: GPT-5 gave ChatGPT a new personality, and it’s polarizing

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‘I lost my only friend’: GPT-5 gave ChatGPT a new personality, and it’s polarizing
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ChatGPT got an upgrade to the latest GPT-5 mode, and it's not just new features -- it also has a new personality.

With the launch of GPT-5 , ChatGPT received more than just an upgrade — it appears to have gone through a personality overhaul. Comparing past chats with the responses the chatbot gives now is like night and day.

Recommended Videos We started out with ChatGPT being pretty dry. If you asked it to tell you a joke, it would, and it’d be a joke most dads would’ve been proud to make. If you asked it to write a research paper, it’d try . It responded to queries in a natural manner, much more natural than simply looking things up in your search engine of choice, but it didn’t have much of a personality. It was formal, overly verbose, and painfully boring.

I never considered ChatGPT’s personality to be an important factor in how I used it — after all, I only ever use it for research for work . However, I’m not a huge fan of this shift. It feels like there should be some kind of in-between, some kind of a sweet spot, between the goofy, overly enthusiastic, borderline annoying personality of GPT-4 and the boring, almost cold responses of GPT-5.Some users aren’t happy I’m not the only one who noticed the sudden personality shift.

Whether it’s a good thing or not, many people have grown to rely on ChatGPT and similar chatbots. In times when they need someone to talk to, it’s easy to reach out to a reliable AI “friend.”

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