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People think ChatGPT is getting lazier.

Even large language model-powered chatbots get tired, it seems. Several users said that ChatGPT often refuses to execute tasks that involve a lot of data and took to OpenAI’s community forums and Threads to complain.

OpenAI acknowledged the issue on December 7, saying it hadn’t updated GPT-4 since November 11th. However, users said ChatGPT continues to reject certain jobs, even on paid accounts.

The Verge reached out to OpenAI for more information.

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