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The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers


I’ve been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread …

This AMA thread with the OpenAI team is a great illustration of the single biggest complaint: a lot of people are very unhappy to lose access to the much older GPT-4o, previously ChatGPT’s default model for most users. A big surprise for me yesterday was that OpenAI simultaneously retired access to their older models as they rolled out GPT-5, at least in their consumer apps. It’s possible we may see a small but determined rush of ChatGPT users to alternative third party chat platforms that use that API under the hood.

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