The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
16 days ago
- #AI-models
- #OpenAI
- #GPT-5
- OpenAI retired older models like GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and others with the launch of GPT-5, causing dissatisfaction among users.
- GPT-5 aims to improve UX by automatically selecting models based on prompts, but power users find this unpredictable.
- Many users preferred GPT-4o for creative tasks, emotional nuance, and roleplay, which GPT-5 handles differently.
- OpenAI's new approach discourages direct life advice, focusing on grounded honesty, which some users find ethically complicated.
- GPT-4o remains available via API, potentially driving users to third-party platforms that utilize it.