ChatGPT may have become ‘seasonally depressed’ as creators race to fix AI after users moan over bizarre change

A STRANGE theory claims ChatGPT is now seasonally depressed and behaving lazier during this time of year.

Several users have expressed their concerns about the bot online and experts have waded in with theories.

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According to Futurism and Ars Technica, it might not just be humans who suffer from seasonal depression,

Since late November, users are said to have noticed ChatGPT becoming lazier.

It was said to provide simple results or refuse to do tasks.

Even OpenAI has admitted that there’s something wrong with its chatbot.

It wrote on X: “We’ve heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier!

“We haven’t updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn’t intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and we’re looking into fixing it.”

Users were quick to repost OpenAI and make the seasonal depression link.

One person wrote on X: “Not chat GPT having seasonal depression.”

Another said: “Part of me wonders if #ChatGPT gets seasonal depression too?

“I mean, aren’t we all feeling a little lazier now that the sun is setting at 4pm?”

While one person wrote: “Did ChatGPT get seasonal depression” and added a crying emoji.

Ars Technica suggested that ChatGPT laziness could be due to a winter break hypothesis.

That hypothesis claims that chatbots learn to do less work over the holiday season because it bases everything it knows on information from humans.

AI expert Ethan Mollick explained on X: “OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may actually be true?

“There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it “learned” to do less work over the holidays.”

This post first appeared on Thesun.co.uk