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OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt


GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT, but not everyone thinks that’s the case. “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure.”

But for some users, last Thursday’s release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and making surprisingly dumb mistakes. A new feature designed to seamlessly switch between models depending on the complexity of the query had broken on Thursday, Altman said, “and the result was GPT-5 seemed way dumber.” He promised to implement fixes to improve GPT-5’s performance and the overall user experience. It’s more technical, more generalized, and honestly feels emotionally distant,” wrote one member of the community in a thread titled “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure.”

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