Beginning Friday, OpenAI will stop offering entry to 5 legacy ChatGPT fashions, together with the favored however controversial GPT-4o mannequin.
The 4o mannequin has been on the middle of numerous lawsuits regarding person self-harm, delusional conduct, and AI psychosis. It stays OpenAI’s highest scoring mannequin for sycophancy.
Along with GPT-4o, the GPT-5, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini fashions have additionally been deprecated.
OpenAI meant to retire GPT-4o in August, when it unveiled the GPT-5 mannequin. However on the time, there was sufficient backlash for OpenAI to maintain the legacy mannequin out there for paid subscribers, who might manually select to work together with that mannequin. In a latest weblog put up, OpenAI famous that solely 0.1% of shoppers have been utilizing GPT-4o, however for an organization with 800 million weekly energetic customers, that small proportion nonetheless quantities to 800,000 individuals.
Hundreds of customers have rallied towards the retirement of 4o, citing their shut relationships with the mannequin.
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