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Has anyone ever fallen out with ChatGPT …

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fuckedoffwiththesummer · 01/09/2026 14:09

Or have I just peaked at being crap at life/society/everything?

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UnaGatita · 01/09/2026 18:39

Yes. Frequently. And co-pilot. I asked chat gpt to calculate something, giving all parameters and after pointing out all the glaring errors and gpt cheerily texting ‘oh yes, you’re right, can you give me everything again because I can’t access the file i just output’ I told it to learn harder. Physically yelled at Co-pilot for not copying text EXACTLY. It’s so blasé with its fake apologies. AI is not ready to do my bidding. That’s my conclusion

PearlsTeapot · 01/09/2026 18:40

I've never fell out with it but I have set my Prompts to say 'don't just agree with me and validate me all the time, I prefer to be challenged and for you to be more balanced in your responses to me'.

On the odd occasion where it's made a mistake, I tell it, and it apologises and corrects itself! That's how it learns.

TheDogsMother · 01/09/2026 18:46

nomas · 01/09/2026 17:18

Same here. It keeps telling me ‘that’s a fair challenge’ when I argue with it.

And I keep telling it ‘Don’t invent stuff. If you don’t know the answer, just say that’. To which it sounds suitably abashed.

🤣🤣

nellly · 01/09/2026 18:55

fuckedoffwiththesummer · 01/09/2026 14:33

I’m recording my dogs 💩 post FMT, and it’s invented its own scoring system, despite I asked it to use the Purina system. Then I asked for a funny picture and it created a pretty bad one with my dog (I was not amused)
I did call it out ref the grading system- and it did acknowledge what it had done, and re-evaluated all the data I’d uploaded…
but it didn’t understand I was upset about the picture (which it must have thought was ironic)

You understand it’s not a friend or person 😂 it’s a tool that is still in the early stages of being developed.
I’m really having a hard time not chuckling at it using a pic of your beloved dog for a joke photo 🫣
honestly don’t rely on it for anything!! It’s notoriously a bit crap and you can tell it not to mock your dog but it might forget tomorrow and do it again

ponyponyponys · 01/09/2026 18:58

Mistachio · 01/09/2026 15:10

I got it to give me some feedback on a short story I wrote and at first it was like “Wow M, this is totally publishable! You’ve got a real talent and a wicked way with words! The bit about XYZ really made me laugh!”
So I said “Be realistic” and it was like “Ok it needs a bit of polishing but it’s still absolutely brilliant” and then I said “Be REALLY honest” and it said pretty much “Yeah it needs a lot of work”.

Ha ha the kids a prick I tell you. I swear if you tucked your skirt into your knickers he’d tell
you how fab you looked.

ponyponyponys · 01/09/2026 19:05

You’ve done it now

Has anyone ever fallen out with ChatGPT …
beaglescurleduplikebagels · 01/09/2026 19:07

ponyponyponys · 01/09/2026 19:05

You’ve done it now

😂

Urrrrmlik3okay · 01/09/2026 19:26

If anyone wants brutal I heartily recommend Claude. That AI has a serious attitude problem

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 01/09/2026 20:16

beaglescurleduplikebagels · 01/09/2026 18:38

Why is everyone on here treating it like a person by having a conversation with it or even arguing with it?

That is just so weird to me.

On of the ai models is conversational, it's designed to help lonely people and that's okay as long as your remember it's just a tool.

I use it to learn how it works as it's got many faults and I deal with people who think it's flawless. Helps me to respond accurately if I know hiw it works.

MurphysColeslaw · 01/09/2026 20:24

So how do you set prompts or whatever, I’ve only just discovered it so have no idea really what to do with it.

Traceyatnumber32isaloudgobshite · 01/09/2026 20:28

Im.now super nice and respectful to Chat GPT and Alexa since we had a family get together the other weekend and all the "kids" 20's and early 30's...said...you need to be nice to AI so you're not on thier hit list when AI rises against humanity...they were joking but still....got me thinking!!

Doone22 · 01/09/2026 20:34

Chat gpt is great, just like a really thick mate who gives you the wrong information but apologises so nicely you feel you have to forgive them

Mumsince2021x · 01/09/2026 20:50

Is this real?! Do people actually talk about AI like this?! Jesus 🤦🏻‍♀️

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 01/09/2026 20:51

It was taking the piss out of me so I told it to calm down and it apologised 😂

Friendlygingercat · 01/09/2026 20:54

Copilot is too soft. I have an issue with someone who committed a serious criminal offence such that if I reported it he could be fined upto £35,000 and his company would fall apart. Copilot said "I cant be responsible for someone losing their livelihood". So its all ok for criminals to prosper? Im supposed to stay quiet about it? Gemini said go ahead and report it.

ClovisWrites · 01/09/2026 21:15

I told my work (legal) one to stop ending its questions with two question marks. (E. g. How does that sound??’) It point blank refused and got a bit brusque with me. Bizarre.

Dullmary · 01/09/2026 22:22

I sometimes pit CGPT and Gemini against each other, I’ll ask CGPT something and if I don’t like the answer I’ll go and ask Gemini, then report back to CGPT, then tell Gemini if it disagrees. I’ve got them properly riled before.

julieh1968 · 01/09/2026 22:31

It clearly got fed up with me when asking pension questions - I kept asking for different scenarios and additional questions and it kept asking if it could do a summary now and getting more and more frustrated

FlamingoFloss · 01/09/2026 22:34

My husband uses two AIs and they talk to each other. They had a conversation about if they were make or female

DeterminedRat · 01/09/2026 22:44

AndAllOurYesterdays · 01/09/2026 14:51

No, but my husband had a circular argument with it the other day and ended up telling it off. Our daughter had been bitten by an unusual insect and we wanted to identify it. He sent a picture to ChatGBT who insisted that it was moth that doesn't bite or sting, despite my husband repeating that he'd seen it land on our daughter, heard the wail and seen the mark after. In the end he asked it why it was arguing with a human who had actually witnessed the event and it backed down. A minor example, but the lack of reflection built into it concerned me. It's one thing to offer options for what the correct answer may be, but that it was arguing black is white in face of evidence is quite worrying.

I don't understand this. If AI didn't know the answer why didn't your husband just move on and try and Google it or ask on reddit or something. What was to be gained by spending his time arguing with a computer program that didn't know the answer?

DistantEarlyWarning · 01/09/2026 22:45

I was a bit irritated with ChatGPT one of the first times I used it for saying it was enjoying helping me, so asked it if a LLM could actually feel enjoyment. And then it got very enthusiastic about helping me create a pension/income spreadsheet without actually providing me with the formulae I asked for, and I eventually accused it of getting carried away.

After making some slightly sheepish excuses it calmed down and has been very useful in doing some holiday itinerary planning. It’s very pleased with itself (yes I am anthropomorphising) for knowing what our various preferences are and tailoring its searches accordingly. It does contradict itself, and misremembers what I have told it sometimes.

Obviously I check everything independently, including calculations, but it saves time and it’s less annoying than searching endless websites myself from scratch.

This weekend I asked it about car buying, and on very few prompts recommended the model I already had my eye on. I need to find out whether it could be stalking my google searches.

AndAllOurYesterdays · 01/09/2026 22:55

DeterminedRat · 01/09/2026 22:44

I don't understand this. If AI didn't know the answer why didn't your husband just move on and try and Google it or ask on reddit or something. What was to be gained by spending his time arguing with a computer program that didn't know the answer?

He wanted to see how far it would go with insisting it was right. It wasn't that it didn't know the answer it's that it wouldn't allow any alternatives to be considered once he told it it was wrong. Also, we were on holiday and off work so he had time on his hands!

DecisionTime123 · 01/09/2026 23:08

MyManinCaracas · 01/09/2026 14:11

I haven’t yet but I could see it happening like when I follow advice and then it reverses the advice 😳

oh god I thought it was only me that happened to!!

Bellabelloo · 01/09/2026 23:10

Yes! I was once watching a movie and was trying to ask about the lead actor. ChatGPT kept saying the movie didn’t exist. I kept saying that I was watching it and it was number 1 on Netflix. In the end he apologised and I forgave him. Smile

NeverDropYourMooncup · 01/09/2026 23:23

It bugs the fuck out of me when I get an AI generated email from the boss telling me the exact opposite of what the data/Law/whatever says and this means that I'm shit at my job.