They’re definitely reducing model performance to speed up responses. ChatGPT was at its best when it took forever to write out a response. Lately I’ve noticed that ChatGPT will quickly forget information you just told it, ignore requests, hallucinate randomly, and has a myriad of other problems I didn’t have when the GPT-4 model was released.
I’m no fan of imperialistic military expansion but I feel like this might give some perspective:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases/