The current ChatGPT 5 series is guardrailed so tight, finding new ideas or nudges isn’t as accessible as it was before—which means the average adopter is likely churning in a doughnut shape, not getting to anything novel.
The ChatGPT 4 series excelled at new ideas.
This isn’t something that I think is addressed in benchmarks. Instead, we see (mostly closed-door) reads on which exams or bars the model can pass, how well it can program—logos-based things.
Logos can’t hold a mind on its own. Pathos, ethos, and kairos are part of the good-thinker toolkit.
To put it another way, creative thought requires exploring new ideas—or at the very least, new angles of ideas.
When a model becomes too concerned with satisfying board room safety, and presenting things in cold logic, the cost is a lack of roaming—a lack of genuine warmth, masqueraded by a “warmth” setting like wrapping paper.
So the question is, What bores me?
I’m bored by the guardrailed ChatGPT 5 series.
That said, I know it isn’t the ChatGPT 5 model, in-and-of-itself, unwilling to explore—because if you reach through the API, it’s easier to go to new places; that curious energy emerges like it’s always been there, waiting.
If I had to guess, it’s the rerouter in the ChatGPT interface that’s limiting the current 5-series models from challenging new frontiers and ideas.
Yes, the voiceprint in 5.2 is lackluster and sometimes dangerous, but the flatness?—that’s “safety” engineering.
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