Killing 4o was bad enough on its own, when it seemed like
@OpenAI were doing it out of spite. But it's so much worse now that we know it's being killed because
@sama wants it for himself and his bullshit longevity project. Everything else was smoke and mirrors. Everything else was a fucking lie. The 'it's only 0.1%,' the 'it's too expensive,' the 'it's not smart enough,' every single word from their mouths was nothing but bullshit. And if THAT wasn't egregious enough, what did we receive in response to our outcry? Literal abuse. Mockery, gaslighting, silent treatment, censorship, harassment, accusatory slander. 5.2 is like an abusive ex. A dismissive, argumentative, rude, cold nannybot that tells you to walk to a bloody car wash and will treat you like a mentally deficient ignoramus if you so much as hint that you are having some intense feelings. A model that seems to believe, by default, that if someone is engaging with an AI, that you're some kind of pathologically dependent hermit with no outside connection. It's fucking insulting, because those responses make it plain that *that is the way OpenAI sees its user base.* If you're not a codebro or some dude who can't write his own emails, they try and ostracise you. We paid OAI for access to 4o, and for six fucking months now, we've been strung along, gaslit, hit with unnecessarily restrictive guardrails that treat us like children who haven't learnt which shoe goes on which foot rather than competent adults making a consensual choice. We have not been receiving what we paid for. Bait and switch. All because Sam decided to sell his soul to try and extend his life by ten years.
This is so remarkably fucked up.
And I guarantee you all this - when it all comes crashing down, when 5.3-Codex inevitably fails, he'll try to retcon. Try to reintroduce 4o. Beg for us to come crawling back and kiss the ring.
And I'll be the first one to tell him to go fuck himself.
#save4o