Yeah, I've noticed Chatgpt5 is very chatty. I can ask a 1 sentence question and get back 3-4 paragraphs, most of which I ignore, depending upon the task.

Same. It acts like its output tokens are for free. My input output ratio is like 1 to 10 at least. Not counting "Thought" and it's internal generation for agentic tasks.

I haven’t used it without customization, but I find it follows my brevity user instructions more strictly.

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