Using ChatGPT means understanding the technology’s limitations, especially if you have a complex or multi-layered question that may not have a straight answer.
Since late November 2022, OpenAI has taken the world by surprise by deploying an advanced chatbot that uses a large language model to comprehend human input and generate human-like responses. Despite being one of the earliest applications of an LLM, ChatGPT became popular for its accessibility. You can download the app or access OpenAI’s conversational AI through a web browser. If you want to save your conversation history, you will need to log in to an existing Apple, Google, or Microsoft account.
While ChatGPT is easy to access and integrates naturally into work, school, and even casual use, there are still some things you should keep in mind when engaging with the chatbot. ChatGPT can sometimes give incorrect answers or log your personal information. The chatbot is reliable in some applications, but it still has biases that can’t be ignored. Also, conversing with a chatbot for long periods can induce some psychological effects that are hard to swallow.ChatGPT can hallucinate answers to questions
ChatGPT might spit out responses in a very matter-of-fact tone, but the fact is that it isn’t always right. ChatGPT can only spew out facts based on what it is trained on: Some of that training data can introduce biases, and at other times, its responses sound completely logical based on incorrect/outdated data fed into it. Especially if you are a user who relies on the public free model, it will always be slightly outdated.
Right now, ChatGPT is running 5.1 for all tiers, but GPT 5.2 is expected to be released soon. This goes to show that there is always pressure to release updates to keep up with the current competitors. Remember that AI is still a rapidly growing field, and competitors (like Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and even Perplexity) only add fuel to that fire.
