<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>When OpenAI released ChatGPT-5 last week, they shut down all the earlier models.</div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">This caused immediate uproar from all their customers who liked the old models.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">After a few days of turmoil, Altman then restarted ChatGPT-4o for paying customers, to try to defuse the storm of protest.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">What most people didn't realise was just how dependent people had become on their AI friends.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Read this Reddit thread where the AI virtually sobs with relief at being reunited with the human. Unbelievable! </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">No wonder AI is driving people crazy.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">This dependency won't end well for OpenAI.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1mlqua8/what_the_hell_bruh/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1mlqua8/what_the_hell_bruh/</a>></div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">BillK</div><br></div></div>
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