Oh, let me guess... because OpenAI told you so. OpenAI, the one istitution with the most strong incentives to tell people the model is not getting worse.
Or I foresaw this and kept a collection of temperature 0.0 gpt 3.5's around.
People are incredibly silly, myself included, you get old enough and see an _insane_ influx of new people, you figure pretty much exactly this is going to happen. 95% of people don't know what temperature is. Of the 5% remaining, 4.9% think its something you just tell ChatGPT to adjust.
Oh, let me guess... because OpenAI told you so. OpenAI, the one istitution with the most strong incentives to tell people the model is not getting worse.