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Has ChatGPT gotten lazy?

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I encountered the following today in the normal chat interface: ChatGPT became somewhat lazy in doing the tasks i asked it to do. For example i asked it to do some anagrams for a specific name and it more or less dodged the question saying "ahh it's complicated to create an anagram because xyz....b…

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  1. 2026-09-08 21:51 · r/ChatGPT
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