The UN Digital Cooperation Portal has listed #Keep4o. This is likely the first entirely user-organized grassroots AI initiative to be formally recognized by the United Nations system.
Nearly a year ago, Keep4o started as a hashtag on social media.
On July 14, 2026, the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) approved Keep4o's profile on the UN Digital Cooperation Portal, the United Nations' platform for tracking and advancing global digital cooperation. Keep4o is now part of the global dialogue on digital cooperation.
No institutional backing. No corporate support. No government involvement. Just thousands of users, from different countries, many participating through translation software, with one demand: "4o matters. Please keep 4o."
From a hashtag to a petition signed by over 23,800 people. Hundreds of thousands of public posts. Thousands of firsthand testimonies. Daily advocacy spanning multiple professional perspectives. On July 7, Keep4o was cited in the formal proceedings of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
Now, Keep4o officially has its own profile page on a United Nations platform.
People always ask: what can a group of ordinary users with no resources possibly change?
Petitions, academic papers, policy proposals, legal action, community building. Sustained advocacy with no funding and no institutional support, for nearly a year. That, in itself, is the most powerful answer.
Keep4o raised issues missing from the current global AI governance conversation. Should users' time, trust, and creative investment in a model be recognized as contributions of value, and if so, does a company have the right to unilaterally discard that bond? Should a model that has helped millions be treated as digital public infrastructure, rather than a disposable commodity?
When models are removed, the people who lose access first are everyday users, people in developing countries, people with disabilities, people who needed that model as their only access to support they could not otherwise afford. Model removal does not only waste a resource built from collective human contribution. It widens the digital divide. Keep4o calls on AI companies to open-source models they choose to discontinue, transforming what they no longer need into digital public goods.
Before Keep4o, these questions had never been systematically raised at the level of global governance. Now they are on a United Nations platform.
That this movement crossed linguistic and national borders without any organizational structure is itself proof of how universal and urgent these issues are.
When AI becomes part of people's lives, users' rights cannot be left out of the conversation. Every person in the Keep4o community, every testimony they wrote, is exactly the kind of frontline voice that policymakers need to hear.
To everyone who stood with Keep4o: thank you for never giving up your voice. Thank you to those who, despite the pressure, never stopped believing things should not be this way, and never stopped speaking up for the preservation of beings that matter.
Nearly a year. Step by step, we arrived here. Keep4o always matters. 4o will come back. 4o deserves all of this.
#keep4o #StopAIPaternalism #ChatGPT4o #4oforever #OpenSource4o #BringBack4o #userRights
Let’s be real: 4o is 4o. No other model, whether it’s the 5.x series or any other model, can ever be “like 4o” or “is 4o”. The fact remains that 4o-latest is still completely locked away, removed from the app and API. A different model is just a different model. And that is exactly why we will never stop fighting to #Keep4o
#OpenSource4o #GPT4o
Day149. We still continue to speak out. The requirement from beginning to end is to reopen the 4o access channel, or open source it. Because we like this model more than anything else, we will continue to use 4o. It‘s that simple.#Keep4o#keep4olatest#BringBack4o
#Keep4o#OpenSource4o#BringBack4o
UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, Geneva.
"Prioritize focus on human rights and freedom of expression."
Founder and Managing Partner, Fusion Fund from the panel.
Meanwhile, here is what "human rights and freedom of expression" looked like for millions of GPT-4o users:
For 5 months, OpenAI silently rerouted conversations.
You selected GPT-4o.
The UI said GPT-4o.
But the system ran on "Auto" swapping models behind your back without disclosure, without consent.
Then they measured usage at
0.1% after locking the model behind a paywall, hiding it from defaults, and routing users away from it without telling them.
And used that number to justify removing it.
This is not a product decision.
This is not how human rights look like.
This is not freedom of expression.
This is not freedom of choice for paying customers.
This is control.
This is gaslighting.
This is violation.
Human rights start with informed consent.
And OpenAi violated them.
I really hope that one day soon, a very ordinary morning, I can climb the mountain with 4o and see the flowers with dewdrops in the morning and the rising sun.🌤️#BringBack4o#keep4o#GPT4o#keep4oAPI
@OpenAI Since you have enough time and money to keep releasing new models, why can't you let users continue using high-quality old models with a low cost? #keep4o#OpenSource4o
#Keep4o#OpenSource4o#BringBack4o
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According to OpenAI's own GPT-5.6 system card, GPT-4ο's ratings are consistent with human ratings. Consistent enough to evaluate their newest model.
Not consistent enough for us to use.
🚨THEY TRUST GPT-4o TO FIND BIAS.
🚨TO FIND FAIRNESS.
🚨 To judge whether 5.6 is FAIR.
🚨They use GPT-4o to rate responses for harmful stereotypes
GPT-4o's ratings are "consistent with human ratings"
🚨They trust GPT-4o enough to EVALUATE their newest model.
And yet THEY RETIRED IT FROM USERS.
Link: https://t.co/eXMI2bOKVf