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they regulary and often downgrade their gpts. gpt4 now is about as good as gpt3.5 was in the beginning.

like 6-7 months ago there was a gpt4 version that was really good, it could understand context and stuff extremly well, but it just went downhill from there. i wont pay for current chatgpt 4 anymore

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While I agree that GPT4 (in the web app) is not as good as it used to be, I don't think it is anywhere near GPT3.5 level. There are many things web app GPT4 can do that GPT3.5 couldn't do at ChatGPT's release (or now afaik).

One thing I really dislike about hosted models is how opaque that behavior is. As a user I should never be guessing if they've reduced a model's capabilities to save on compute for example.

This is why I'm excited for the growth of local model capabilities. I can much more reasonably expect that the model has not degraded and that it is using the full hardware capabilities it has been granted.

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