ChatGPT Quality Decline: Users Report Excessive Verbosity and Unanswered Questions Alongside Product Retreats and Cancellation Wave

r/ChatGPT·low signal

Multiple r/ChatGPT threads today (105 upvotes + 74 upvotes, combined 112 comments) report worsening ChatGPT quality: 'twenty bullet points, a compliment, and recommendations I don't ask for — all while not answering the original question.' A parallel cancellation thread cites unprompted monologues and outright confabulation as reasons for dropping Plus. This sentiment wave coincides with OpenAI's Sora shutdown and adult mode cancellation, creating a compounding narrative of product quality erosion that functions as a migration signal toward Claude and other alternatives.