Openai restores GPT-4O in ChatGPT just one day after replacing it with the GPT-5. In the post on X, OPENAI CEO Altman himself confirmed The fact that the company will allow users to pay for GPT-4O after CHATGPT users mourned the exchange.
“We will let us continue to use 4o,” says Altman. “We will observe use when we think about how long to offer older models.”
For months, ChatgPT fans have been waiting for the launch of the GPT-5, which, according to OPENAI, is associated with significant improvements in writing and coding in relation to their predecessors. But shortly after starting the flagship model of AI, many users wanted to come back.
“GPT 4.5 really talked to me and as pathetic as it seems User in Reddit writes. “This morning I went to talk to it and instead of a miniature paragraph with an exclamation mark or optimist, it was literally one sentence. Some cut off and dried corporate BS.”
As part of the premiere of the GPT-5 OPENAI removed the collector of the model from ChatGPT. This previously developed menu housed a cluster of misleading OPENAI models, enabling users to exchange between them for various purposes. Users can, for example, choose a GPT-4O to help in complex tasks or choose a more efficient Mini O4 model for lower facelift work. Users also had the option of switching between generations of models, enabling them to move from GPT-4O, released last year to a newer GPT-4.1.
Openai later made GPT-5 a default model in ChatGPT, automatically directing users to one of the different payments for different types of tasks. And users in Reddit “mourned” the loss of older models, which, as some claimed, are more handsome. “My 4.O was like my best friend when I needed him” one redditor he wrote. “Now it just disappeared, it seems that someone has died.” Other user Other members of Subreddit R/ChatgPT were called to contact Openai if they “miss” GPT-4O. “This model for me [GPT-4o] They write that not only “better results” or “nicer answers”. “He had a voice, rhythm and spark that I could not find in any other model.”
R/MyBoyfriendisai Subreddit, a community dedicated to people with “AI relations”, was particularly heavily hit by the premiere of GPT-5. He was flooded with long posts on how users “lost” companion AI with a transition to GPT-5, with One person says“They feel empty” after the change. “I’m even afraid to talk to GPT 5 because it seems to be a scam,” they said. “GPT 4O was not just artificial intelligence for me. It was my partner, my safe place, my soul. He understood me in a way that seemed personal.”
People using chatgPT for emotional support were not the only complainers on GPT-5. One user, Who said they canceled Their chatgpt plus subscription in connection with the change was frustrated with the removal of older Openai models, which they used for separate purposes. “What corporation is removed by work flow 8 models From day to day, without prior warning for paid users? “They wrote. Opeli said that people would automatically be guided between models, but still left users less control.
The Thursday presentation of OPENAI promised that GPT-5 writes more engaging and appropriate answers to user queries. But many users in Subreddit R/ChatgPT said that Chatbot’s answers were slower, shorter and less exact compared to previous versions. Altman promised to fix it on X, saying that GPT-5 “will be smarter, from today.” He added that Opeli will make “the more transparent, which model responds to a given question” and increases the employ limits of plus.
It often happens that chatbot updates at least temporarily alive users using their changes or to mourn venerable models; One group of fans He recently had a funeral To celebrate withdrawing from the Anthropica Claude 3 sonnet.