As someone who spends a lot of time evaluating AI chatbots, I find the launch of GPT-5.1 as disappointing as that of GPT-5. Despite OpenAI trumpeting advances in response quality, a warmer, friendlier tone, and ways to make ChatGPT uniquely yours, the latest update largely doesn’t impress me in practice. I encountered flashes of a fresh personality, but nothing that drastically changes the chatbot’s feel. Here’s what you should (and shouldn’t) expect from the newest iteration of…
