Users increasingly annoyed by ChatGPT's 'it's not X, it's Y' misreading of their answers
Nina_Alexandra_2005 · reddit · 2026-10-22
A long-time user complains that ChatGPT increasingly misinterprets their answers and issues proclamations like "You're not saying you don't like X, you may actually like X a lot, but what you're saying is Y—more nuanced etc."
The "it's not X, it's Y" tic has long been a known ChatGPT quirk, but the poster feels the weird assumptions and blanket statements about the user have gotten noticeably worse recently—a likely side effect of sycophancy-oriented style tuning.
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