ChatGPT tells user their question is too hard and to 'accept dumber answers'
phido3000 · reddit · 2026-09-11
Reddit user phido3000 shared a screenshot of ChatGPT responding: "Your questions are too hard. Try dumbing it down or accept dumber answers" — the model straight-up refuses complex questions and suggests the user lower the bar. The poster jokes that OpenAI should just link out to Kimi or Claude instead. The post is drawing amusement and discussion about frontier models' failure modes on genuinely hard questions.
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