Their trajectory was clear the moment they signed a deal with Microsoft if not sooner.

Absolute snakes - if it's more profitable to manipulate you with outputs or steal your work, they will. Every cent and byte of data they're given will be used to support authoritarianism.

I feel much the same. I know no AI lab is truly 'ethical' or free from some hand in modern warfare, but last week was enough.

I agree with ya. You aren't alone in this. For what its worth, Chatgpt subscriptions have been cancelled or that number has risen ~300% in the last month.

Also, Anthropic/Gemini/even Kimi models are pretty good for what its worth. I used to use chatgpt and I still sometimes accidentally open it but I use Gemini/Claude nowadays and I personally find them to be better anyways too.

that aside, chatgpt itself has gone downhill so much and i know i'm not the only one feeling this way

i just HATE talking to it like a chatbot

idk what they did but i feel like every response has been the same "structure" since gpt 5 came out

feels like a true robot