I have been using the 4.5 that says it is in Research preview. I have used it maybe 5 times, and now it says that I have to wait until the 7th to use it again.
I have to be honest that these options do make it unclear which is the best. The other option Deep Research also seems to have a similar limit. The $20 account features are looking pretty thin when a main UI element limits its use.
I think a better way is a slider that lets you select how important it is to you. If it is less important you can select that, and if it is more important then it gives its best effort.
It is funny to think that we want to use something that is less effective. Hmm, sure I’ll use the less effective tool because I don’t need the most helpful answer. Who wants that?
I think what ChatGPT is probably seeing is lots of low quality and non urgent requests for information. So by capping the number of questions, it is trying to control its costs. Which is strange. We didn’t do that with a search engine, because each search paid for itself with new ads. In fact there was an incentive to refresh the page or get a better answer so that new ads could be shown.
Still I don’t think that most people care about the relative difference in knowledge. It does make me very curious if there are limits in the $200 a month plan. I am strongly tempted to try that and see if it is worth all of that. I would be very unhappy if they limit me there as well. Perhaps I need to do more research on people who have used this.
Anyway, if you go crazy with questions like I do, you might also bump against the glass ceiling. How strange they are trying to encourage adoption while also limiting it.