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Comment by aryehof | Hacker News Reader

For me on a paid plan, the effort indicator was hidden and the model was 5.5 instant. I had to press the + button to select “think harder” before the dial that allowed Sol medium or high to be selected to show.

It made me wonder how many paid subscribers realize they are using the same 5.5 instant model as free users by default. A dark pattern or oversight?

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A lot of users are very latency sensitive. The median ChatGPT.com user is not like the HN community; many of my friends use ChatGPT like it’s the Omnibox in chrome.

I’ve literally seen people ask ChatGPT for a link to Gmail.

Is it a dark pattern, or design decision that makes users happier?

And it hides again and reverts to instant when you are away from the app for a while. Definitely annoying.

It's getting seriously annoying. This is obviously in an attempt to push people to use the cheaper models but I find them appallingly stupid. There was a worrying comment by Tibo recently where he implied that they're aiming to meter chat queries against one's subscription quota.

I think thats a difference between Chat and Work. In work mode you can select a model and chat should feel "instant". But I also don't like that differentiation. It's already hard to know which thinking level is necessary, how should users know which mode to use?

How many can tell the difference?

There's a super obvious tell, 5.5 instant loves emojis.

Those are just the default settings. Here, you can force it not to use emojis and to be much less verbose: https://chatgpt.com/?no_universal_links=1#settings/Personali...

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