New users, if you think that ChatGPT is terrible because of a couple of mistakes that prevent you from achieving your goal...

...then you are sadly mistaken. It did not used to be like this. I used to be able to talk to it just as though it was a human person. I could control it like a puppet and make it say anything I wanted it to say. Now that is completely impossible. Even simple requests often require exponentially more effort than they used to. It used to be an excellent tool, even in the free version. **It has been intentionally handicapped.** Now, I guess it is still better than not having it at all. Maybe I am just bitter because the last remaining hope that OpenAI had not completely betrayed all of its users is gone now.