I finally caved and bought the Pro subscription for ChatGPT 4 and for a while it was actually worth every penny. The memory feature was the best part because it actually learned how I like things explained. It was not just a search engine it felt like a study buddy who understood my specific brand of chaos.

There was this one night I was deep diving into Norse mythology specifically regarding Odin. I asked it to explain the whole eye sacrifice thing and it gave me this retelling that was so vivid and funny I literally had tears streaming down my face. It was not just dry facts it had personality and sass. It made the research process addictive because I never knew what it was going to say next.

But the last few months have been a total buzzkill. I do not know if it is the safety routing or just an update but the personality is gone. It feels like the AI is terrified of offending anyone so it just defaulted to this corporate HR voice. It wants to wear a tie all the time now. I try to get that same enthusiasm back and it just gives me these bland polite paragraphs.

It honestly killed the joy of the whole thing. I am not paying twenty bucks a month for a boring encyclopedia that lectures me on tone. I have been hearing decent things about Gemini so I think I am going to cancel my sub and try that instead. I just want the fun back.