Yes I was very surprised after the whole "scandal" around ChatGPT becoming too sycophantic that there was this massive change in tone from the last preview model (05-06) to the 06-05/GA model. The tone is really off-putting, I really liked how the preview versions felt like intelligent conversation partners and recognize what you're saying about useful pushback - it was my favorite set of models (the few preview iterations before this one) and I'm sad to see them disappearing.
Many people on the Google AI Developer forums have also noted either bugs or just performance regression in the final model.
Many people on the Google AI Developer forums have also noted either bugs or just performance regression in the final model.