The standard free ChatGPT LLM you get after a few messages HAS to be some sub-20b model with online search enabled, no other way to explain how awful it is

Recently bought into the local LLM hype by buying a 32gb vram gpu and holy shit, gemma 4 31b at 5bits blows the standard ChatGPT model out of the fucking water. I just can't unsee the quality difference now that I've experienced it. Does Openai just cut costs by serving their customers this slop since most people just use it as a search engine?