I don't know how "normies" use this, but ChatGPT has been steadily improving. Myself, I've been using it much more in the recent month than ever before (i.e. of

I don't know how "normies" use this, but ChatGPT has been steadily improving. Myself, I've been using it much more in the recent month than ever before (i.e. official webapp, as opposed to API or other providers), simply because o3 is just that good. The integration of search and thinking is something beautifully effective. It's definitely the smartest model around for any problem-solving queries, whether it's figuring out the pinout of some old electronic component you bought in Shenzhen a decade ago, or figuring out which product to buy to solve a problem and how it compares with alternatives. I do agree that ChatGPT may just be good enough for casual users to not be worth exploring (I'm tired with constant churn of AI releases too - on that note, there should be a worldwide ban on multiple AI companies releasing similar tools at the same time; I don't have time to look into all of them at once!) - but they're definitely not getting the suboptimal deal here. At least not ones on the paid plan that are aware of the model switcher in the UI. EDIT: Also, setting gpt-4o as the default model gives ChatGPT another stickiness point: it's (AFAIK still) unique image generator that qualitatively outclasses anything that came before.