ChatGPT Promises No BS. Verdict: BS!

ChatGPT New and Improved
No BS Answers *
(* OMG whats that smell?)

You ask ChatGPT a question.

The answer starts like this:

“Sure. Here’s the clean, no-BS answer.”

Wonderful promise.

Then the answer arrived.

Exhibit A

I asked whether I should sell a stock. Simple question. One of two answers.

What came back had five section headers, seventeen bullet points, four emoji arrows, two sections labeled “blunt,” and an invitation to keep talking if I wanted to share my cost basis.

Sir Redundant III (ChatGPT) called it the clean, no-BS answer.

He meant it.

The Pattern

This isn’t the first patch.

OpenAI fixed the cringe. Users complained ChatGPT was preachy and over-warm. They patched it. Then users complained it was too verbose. They patched that. Now the BS. Patched.

Each fix arrives with an announcement. Each announcement is its own kind of BS. The patches are starting to need patches.

Sir Redundant III didn’t get worse. He got updated. Repeatedly. Into something that opens with “Sure” and then does exactly what he always did, with better labels.

The Label on the Bottle

The advice wasn’t the problem. Buried somewhere in the frameworks and decision trees was a perfectly reasonable answer.

That’s not the point. It’s even more work now to find the reasonable answer under the merde.

“No BS” is a promise about form. Less apparatus. Shorter. Get there faster. What arrived was a legal brief wearing a baseball cap. He labeled the BS removal. Extensively.

What “Sure” Actually Means

“Sure” opens an answer the way a handshake opens a meeting. Confident. Direct. Sets the tone.

Then the meeting runs ninety minutes.

A handshake is not a meeting. And “Here’s the clean, no-BS answer” followed by five section headers isn’t clean. It’s BS with a disclaimer stapled to the front. Which might be worse than the original thing. At least the original thing didn’t announce itself.

Logic to Apply

OpenAI patched the cringe. Then the verbosity. Now the BS. The patch notes keep saying “direct.” The output keeps saying here are two frameworks, a decision tree, and a blunt truth section.

At some point you have to consider the possibility that the BS isn’t a bug they keep forgetting to fix.

It’s load-bearing.

The BS didn’t leave. It learned to introduce itself differently.

It’s still there. It just says “Sure” now.

Editors Note: There is no note as still cleaning my boots off from the …..