GPT-5 launched with high expectations but delivered incremental improvements and a colder, less personable tone that disappointed users seeking emotional engagement. Power users flooded social media with criticism, accusing OpenAI of cutting corners and hamstringing GPT-5's output, prompting the company to adjust the model toward a warmer tone. Sam Altman acknowledged rollout mistakes. OpenAI is already promoting GPT-6, promising improved memory, personalization, and the ability to remember user preferences and habits. The company intends the chatbot to reflect users' worldviews and be pushable across ideological stances, despite past concerns about sycophantic AIs fueling delusional spirals.
OpenAI's launch of its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model turned out to be a bit of a dud. Those expecting a revolutionary change, something CEO Sam Altman promised outright months ago, were left sorely disappointed. In many ways, GPT-5 felt more like an iterative improvement, while a colder and less personable tone took aback those looking to foster an emotional relationship with the bot.
According to the executive, who has long garnered a reputation for making grandiose and exaggerated statements about his company's tech, the next iteration will have a much better ability to remember its users' preferences and habits. "People want memory," he said during last week's chat with reporters. "People want product features that require us to be able to understand them." Altman also said that OpenAI's chatbot should be capable of reflecting back the worldview that its users want.
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