According to Futurism and Ars Technica, seasonal depression may not be limited to humans. Users have reported that ChatGPT has become lazier since late November. The artificial intelligence produced simplistic findings or refused to do tasks. Even OpenAI has conceded that there is a problem with its chatbot. “We’ve heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier!” it stated on X.
“Part of me wonders if #ChatGPT suffers from seasonal depression as well?”
“We haven’t updated the model since November 11th, and this isn’t on purpose.” The model’s behaviour can be unpredictable, and we’re working to improve it.” Users retweeted OpenAI and shared the seasonal sadness link. On X, someone posted, “Not chat GPT having seasonal depression.”
“Part of me wonders if #ChatGPT suffers from seasonal depression as well?” remarked another. “I mean, aren’t we all feeling a little lazier now that the sun is setting at 4 pm?” While another wrote, “Did ChatGPT get seasonal depression?” with a crying emoji. According to Ars Technica, ChatGPT slowness could be related to a winter break hypothesis. According to this theory, chatbots learn to do less work over the Christmas season because they learn everything from humans. “OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may be true?” said AI specialist Ethan Mollick on X. “There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it ‘learned’ to do less work over the holidays.”