As ChatGPT gets "lazy," people test "winter break hypothesis" as the cause

I don't know if this was the case before, but yesterday I asked a question, and it thunk for a while before answering: "Based on the title of this video, it may answer your question", then provided a link to a YouTube video. The video did not answer my question.

In order to have the &quot;winter blues&quot; you must know that it is winter. And in all my questions to ChatGPT I never had positive feedback that it knows what time it is, what date it is, and what the current season is.<p>My theory is that someone left a DEBUG=1 flag somewhere in the code and that the debug.log is filling up to 4 GB. I&#x27;m only joking a bit, I&#x27;ve been bitten enough times by these type of issues to know that they must happen all over the place.

“What if it learned from its training data that people usually slow down in December and put bigger projects off until the new year, and that’s why it’s been more lazy lately?&quot;