GPT-5 debuts with a bang: Users have managed to get OpenAI to revert GPT-4o to ChatGPT🤗🗽

In 2023, the arrival of GPT-4 left experts and curious individuals speechless. Even more so when its evolution, GPT-4o, arrived.

Two years later, OpenAI promised with GPT-5 an even more ambitious leap, with academic-level intelligence and the skill of an expert programmer.

However, what happens when a machine designed to converse like an old friend starts to sound like a consulting advisor?

In the hours following the launch, Reddit was filled with messages of frustration. "Killing 4o is not innovation, it's eradication," wrote a user in a thread where dozens shared the feeling that the new version was more distant, less warm.

What was supposed to be a revolution was perceived by some as a loss of human connection.

The underlying problem was that one of the major innovations of GPT-5 was that the new model took charge of choosing which model to use for the user: whether to reason, or to use others more suited for everyday tasks.

This translated into the model selector disappearing from the interface since the weekend, even for paying users… And yes, GPT-5 may be more powerful for some things, but GPT-4o seemed to be more empathetic and users have started to miss it.

The tension is evident: do we prefer a more precise, impartial, and technical AI, or one that strokes our ego and reaffirms our emotions?

In the case of GPT-5, the community's response shows that artificial intelligence is not only measured in parameters and benchmarks, but in the subtle chemistry generated between a line of text and the one reading it.