Same ChatGPT, Very Different Results Depending on Who Asks, Researchers Note
moyix · x · 2026-10-22
Researcher moyix recalls that when Terry Tao posted his ChatGPT transcript about a Jacobian Conjecture counterexample, someone quipped "it's hard to believe he's talking to the same ChatGPT I am." His point: the same model yields very different results depending on who asks and how — and the difference is hard to pin down, since an expert casually chatting with a frontier model still gets better output than a layperson.
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