I haven’t bothered with o3 mini, because who wants an “inferior” product? I was using 4o as a “smarter Google” until DeepSeek appeared (although its web search is being hammered now and I’m just using Google ).
o1 seems to have been neutered in the last week lots of disclaimers and butt-covering in its responses.
I also had an annoying discussion with o1 about the DC plane crash..it doesn’t have web access and its cutoff is 2024, so I don’t expect it know about the crash. However, after saying such an event is extremely unlikely and being almost patronisingly reassuring, it treated pasted news articles and links (which to be sure, it can’t access) as “fictionalized”, instead of acknowledging its own cut-off date, and that it could have been wrong. In contrast DeepSeek (with web search turned off) was less dismissive of the risks in DC airspace, and more aware of its own knowledge cut-off.
Coupled with the limited number of o1 responses for ChatGPT Plus, I’ve cancelled my subscription for now.
o1 seems to have been neutered in the last week lots of disclaimers and butt-covering in its responses.
I also had an annoying discussion with o1 about the DC plane crash..it doesn’t have web access and its cutoff is 2024, so I don’t expect it know about the crash. However, after saying such an event is extremely unlikely and being almost patronisingly reassuring, it treated pasted news articles and links (which to be sure, it can’t access) as “fictionalized”, instead of acknowledging its own cut-off date, and that it could have been wrong. In contrast DeepSeek (with web search turned off) was less dismissive of the risks in DC airspace, and more aware of its own knowledge cut-off.
Coupled with the limited number of o1 responses for ChatGPT Plus, I’ve cancelled my subscription for now.