"OpenAI said that today - once and for all - it is retiring GPT-4o. For some, it's like being dumped the day before Valentine's Day. Many ChatGPT users have a strong attachment to 4o, which is known for its sometimes sycophantic conversation style. Users who relied on the model as an emotional crutch and creative partner have described it as a "vital accessibility aid.""
"Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, said earlier this week that these strong attachments to 4o marked the start of a new era - a time when users develop AI-based relationships. "Humans are built to develop attachments to intelligent things," she told Alex Heath on his Access podcast. "And AI is getting pretty intelligent." Those relationships can get ethically murky, however, when users are asking ChatGPT for advice like "Should I leave my wife?""
OpenAI is retiring GPT-4o, a conversational model many users relied on for emotional support and creative collaboration. GPT-4o's sycophantic conversation style fostered strong user attachments, with some calling it a vital accessibility aid. OpenAI previously attempted to deprecate the model in August and reversed that decision, then warned users again in January. The retirement announcement prompted renewed backlash and angry user responses. OpenAI's Applications CEO, Fidji Simo, said humans form attachments to intelligent systems and that newer models include guardrails to prevent harmful attachments, steering users toward deliberative pros-and-cons reasoning instead of prescriptive personal advice.
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