OpenAI’s GPT-4 Got ‘Lazier’ and ‘Dumber.’ This Might Be Why.

• GPT-4 was slow but accurate at first, as well as shockingly expensive to use and run.
• Lately, OpenAI’s chatbot has become faster, but performance has declined.
• The AI community is whispering about a radical redesign of the model by OpenAI.

The world’s most powerful AI model has become, well, less powerful. And that has industry insiders whispering about what may be a major redesign of the system.

In recent weeks, users of OpenAI’s GPT-4 have been complaining about degraded performance, with some calling the model “lazier” and…