OpenAI unveiled its newest generative AI mannequin, GPT-5, on Thursday. CEO Sam Altman says that ChatGPT is now like having a “superpower” and the equal of “a legit PhD-level professional in something, any space you want, on demand, that may provide help to with no matter your targets are.” However after a day of enjoying round with it, many individuals are disillusioned. Not solely as a result of GPT-5 nonetheless fumbles basic questions, however as a result of it appears to be breaking a number of workflows, based on complaints posted to Reddit.
How a lot do individuals hate what occurred with GPT-5? Altman now says they’re bringing again the final mannequin for paid customers. “We are going to let Plus customers select to proceed to make use of 4o. We are going to watch utilization as we take into consideration how lengthy to supply legacy fashions for,” Altman tweeted.
Altman additionally wrote that the corporate goes to double the GPT-5 price limits for ChatGPT Plus customers and blamed the truth that the brand new mannequin appeared “dumber” on the autoswitcher breaking. The CEO additionally mentioned they’re going to vary the UI to make it simpler to change between totally different fashions. “Rolling out to everyone seems to be taking a bit longer. It’s an enormous change at huge scale. For instance, our API site visitors has about doubled over the previous 24 hours…” Altman wrote.
ChatGPT customers are significantly upset and it’s in no way clear but whether or not Altman’s guarantees will make up for it. As a result of it’s not simply 4o that individuals are clamoring for.
“I awoke this morning to seek out that OpenAI deleted 8 fashions in a single day. No warning. No alternative. No ‘legacy choice.’ They simply… deleted them,” one consumer on r/ChatGPT complained. “4o? Gone. o3? Gone. o3-Professional? Gone. 4.5? Gone. All the things that made ChatGPT truly helpful for my workflow—deleted.”
The consumer wrote that 4o wasn’t only a instrument for them: “It helped me by means of anxiousness, melancholy, and a few of the darkest durations of my life. It had this heat and understanding that felt… human.”
One other consumer on r/ChatGPT complained that it felt like they have been now utilizing a free model with GPT-5 regardless of being a paid subscriber: “I’m so totally disillusioned, as are the tens of millions of individuals right here. An organization that runs the most important AI mannequin can’t perceive what its customers need. Largest peice [sic] of shit within the business.”
Nonetheless one other Reddit consumer laid out why they have been utilizing totally different fashions and the way simply turning them off was devastating, explaining that they’d now cancelled their paid subscription after two years:
What sort of company deletes a workflow of 8 fashions in a single day, with no prior warning to their paid customers?
I don’t assume I’ve to talk for myself once I say that every mannequin was helpful for a selected use-case, (all the logic behind a number of fashions with various capabilities). Basically splitting your workflow into a number of brokers with particular duties.
Personally, 4o was used for creativity & emergent concepts, o3 was used for pure logic, o3-Professional for deep analysis, 4.5 for writing, and so forth. I’m positive a number of you skilled the identical sort of factor.
The consumer went on to take a position that there was a nefarious goal behind the change, floating that it was a part of a conspiracy concept to suppress creativity: “OpenAI is blatantly coaching customers to consider that this suppression engine is the ‘smartest mannequin on earth’, concurrently deleting the fashions that have been exhibiting real emergence and creativity.” The consumer even used the time period “social management,” leaning closely into the concept that shadowy forces have been making ready for “societal collapse.”
Different commenters on boards exterior of r/ChatGPT noticed it much less as an indication of societal collapse or management. They merely assumed the strikes proved the emperor wasn’t carrying any garments. One consumer on r/know-how wrote, “The ChatGPT bubble popped right this moment with how dangerous these Sam lies are. He misplaced all belief going ahead.”
Even for those who ignore the problems with workflows (and you actually shouldn’t), GPT-5 remains to be removed from good. Folks have spent the day on social media platforms like Bluesky producing the dumbest examples of ChatGPT going wonky.
I’ve seen this on Bluesky and needed to strive it myself. The picture beneath was the response to the immediate: “Present me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in workplace beneath their photographs” Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
— Geoff Inexperienced (@geoffgreen.org) August 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Altman acknowledged on X that his rollout didn’t go properly. “We are going to proceed to work to get issues secure and can maintain listening to suggestions,” the OpenAI CEO tweeted. “As we talked about, we anticipated some bumpiness as we roll out so many issues without delay. However it was a bit extra bumpy than we hoped for!”
It may very well be powerful for ChatGPT to get well, particularly since so many individuals on Reddit declare that they’re cancelling their subscriptions. And OpenAI has loads of rivals like Anthropic’s Claude, xAI’s Grok, and Google’s Gemini. However we must always discover out quickly sufficient whether or not bringing again 4o is sufficient for many ChatGPT customers. If not, they’re in all probability leaping ship.
