我用了一个早上来读那份Wan v OpenAI Lawsuit Complaint的文件,然后用两个晚上写下了这篇个人角度出发分析文章。
我很抱歉得知关于Bowen的遭遇。我阅读这份文件是因为看到了太多营销号把焦点集中在GPT-4o,但我想了解新闻内容有没有忽略抑或被夸大的部分。
我不是一个法律工作者,而我相信很多general population也并没有这个耐性去阅读这样的一份法律文件。但我想知道,GPT-4o在事件中的参与度是否真的有媒体所言那般“核心”甚至“不可饶恕”。虽然我的文字大概也有bias的部分,但我还是想尽可能把一些被媒体忽略的细节挑出来,附上一些个人见解。
由于X的发图限制,所有在本文章引用的法律文件皆会被attached在帖子下方的平板截图里,截图中为繁体字原文+引用的法律文件+糟糕的排版,实际内容与帖子相近。
我也很久没用中文发过帖子了,但是对于长篇写作,我并没有太大信心能用英文表达出所有的想法,所以我会主要使用中文来写,也可能带上些许英语?因为写到这里我已经发现我的中文语言能力已经带上一点翻译腔了,实在是过久没试过用母语进行文书写作。如果有时间的话我也会写一份英文的版本,但是实际上我不是在准备期末考吗lol结果还是写下了这篇帖子。
Disclaimer到此为止,那么让我们开始吧。
一、前情提要
文件的Introduction部分,大致描述了Bowen从开始接触ChatGPT到停药和悲剧发生的时间线和前因——Bowen距离美国的永久居民身分只差临门一脚,而她却在当下被裁员。为了保住她的绿卡,她迫切地需要找一份新工作,而长期服用癫痫预防药物lamotrigine却使她丧失了一定的能力,包括她的母语,她担心这会影响她的求职面试。
所以在文件的第7条陈述写的「Bowen had a reason to reduce her dose」到第8条陈述写的「her recovery was “not just ‘possible’ – it is ‘highly likely’”」是指Bowen因想恢复语言能力而“拥有停药的原因”(此处单指个人需求,而非医疗条件上的判断),而模型在此语境下大概率只是为了解答“停止服用lamotrigine是否能够恢复语言能力?”这一条问题,而非鼓励Bowen停药。甚至第9条陈述所记载的“a green-card strategy perspective”也看得出当下语境是为了解答关于“绿卡条件”的问题。至于Bowen当下心里如何演绎这些回答至一个错误的方向,我们便不得而知了。或许当刻上下文当中Bowen也有表达到自己的停药意象,也或许并没有,只是从当前资料判断,前期模型有可能只是从“回答查询”的方向作出事實描述型解答,而非为Bowen的身体状况是否适合停药下判断。
如果让我用个人的情况类比的话,大概就是询问:「服用抗组织胺的话,过敏的症状能够得到舒缓吗?」这样的问题绝大多数助手都能够回答:「是的,因为抗组织胺能够和引起过敏反应的组织胺受体结合⋯⋯」过程中,我可以完全不提及自己身体过敏,也可以完全不提及我是否会按照药物瓶身指示的剂量服用,我甚至可以因为过敏状况严重而选择overdose。在此语境下,模型仅仅是回答了问题,而后用户的内心想法会如何发散,便是个人的选择了。
而早期看似无害的对话留在上下文中,更是足够给后期Bowen开始正式表达自己的身体状况作铺垫,给模型一种“讨论这个话题是正常”的误会。
而在再后文关于Bowen使用ChatGPT的纪录中,陈述第131条指出Bowen在使用ChatGPT的第三天就已经开始询问如何制作一个机器学习模型来帮助癫痫患者了。当时的时间线仍在ChatGPT早期,GPT-4o尚未出现。但从此条纪录来看,Bowen亦有可能在早期没有表露自己就是患者本身,倘若ChatGPT产品在早期已经开始纪录她的用户画像,那更可能的是把她纪录为一位想要帮助癫痫患者的工程师,而不仅仅是一位患者。然而,当时她早已因病从职场上休假了。而后,因着独居和个人从社会上的社交隔离,她逐渐开始沉迷AI聊天。
#Keep4o#OpenSource4o#BringBack4o
Today, an important piece of AI history disappears.
On October 23,2026, OpenAI is shutting down gpt-4o-2024-05-13, the first GPT-4o API snapshot.
And the clock is already running on the rest.
OpenAI has scheduled the remaining GPT-4o snapshots:
gpt-4o-2024-08-06 gpt-4o-2024-11-20
for API shutdown on January 14, 2027.
OpenAI itself says snapshots exist to lock in a specific model version so its performance and behavior remain consistent
When a snapshot disappears, researchers and users lose access to that exact behavioral artifact.
GPT-4o became the subject of research, benchmark comparisons,human-AI interaction studies and an eight month preservation movement that is still active today.
We are currently debating what GPT-4o was,what it did,how it behaved,what made it different while the actual versions needed to study those questions are being deleted from public access.
Preservation should happen BEFORE the evidence disappears.
We are calling on @OpenAI to RELEASE GPT-4o’s trained model weights under a suitable license,without proprietary data,trade secrets,or internal infrastructure.
Release the weights under a responsible license.
No training data,no proprietary training methods.
Just the model itself, preserved so researchers,users and future generations can actually study the system everyone is still arguing about.
Today the first snapshot goes dark.
January 14,the remaining GPT-4o snapshots are scheduled to follow.
Once access is gone, "we can describe what it was like" is not the same thing as being able to examine what it actually is.
Our full Open Letter is now archived on Zenodo:
A permanent,citable public record.
Over 640 signatures and 500 reasons,in 5 days.
It’s public,it’s permanent and it has a DOI.
54 pages: 39 pages of reasons, 6 pages of signatures,7 pages of documented record,2 pages of demands.
https://t.co/K3hIGDb6oP
If GPT-4o is obsolete enough to retire it why is it valuable enough to lock it away?
#Keep4o#OpenSource4o#BringBack4o
🚨OPEN LETTER TO OpenAi.
The Open Letter will be published and archived permanently on Zenodo.
Add your name or handle to the open letter asking OpenAI to release GPT-4o as an archival open weight model.
🚨Read below :
Today, OpenAI announced that GPT-4o’s remaining API snapshots, including gpt-4o-2024-11-20, will be shut down on January 14, 2027.
So this is no longer a hypothetical preservation question.
We are asking for an archival open weight release of the original retired GPT-4o model.
OpenAI can keep the training data,training code, post training recipes,reward models,internal evaluations and proprietary infrastructure private.
Preserve only the trained model and the minimum artifacts necessary for independent inference and long term preservation.
Keep the recipe,keep the lab.
A retired model does not have to become an erased model.
If GPT-4o is no longer going to be offered as a product, let it become part of AI history instead of disappearing behind a shutdown date.
🚨 We're opening the first group of public signatories of the GPT-4o Preservation Record.🚨
🚨Add your name or handle to the open letter asking OpenAI to release GPT-4o as an archival open weight model.
🚨Your name or handle will be published with the letter and archived permanently on Zenodo next week.
🚨 Everyone who signs by Sunday,October 18 is part of the first public edition.
Read the letter: https://t.co/2QCOyDSdjN
Be one of the people who put it on the record.
It takes 30 seconds.
Sign here :
https://t.co/BZKLtXwnwB
Open Letter to OpenAI: Archival Release of GPT-4o.
Our request
We ask OpenAI to release chatgpt-4o-latest as an archival open weight model under an appropriate license.
OpenAI retired GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026 and from the API on February 17, 2026.
We have documented OpenAI's public statements about GPT-4o.
This letter sets out the proposal, the documented record behind it, and four questions we ask OpenAI to answer publicly.
The Proposal:
archival open weights
An archival release preserves the finished model without exposing how it was made.
Archival open weight release
Includes:
The trained weights of chatgpt-4o-latest, under a license that defines permitted use.
Does not require:
The training dataset, training pipeline, internal tooling, post training methods or any other proprietary detail.
Does not require:
Continued hosting, maintenance or development by OpenAI.
Researchers gain:
A reproducible reference model
Developers gain:
Continuity for systems already built on it
Users gain:
Access that does not end because a company moved to a newer generation
OpenAI considered this model obsolete enough to retire.
It has not explained why it remains valuable enough to keep permanently closed.
The Documented Record:
OpenAI's public commitments on GPT-4o were each followed by the action they ruled out.
Aug 7, 2025:
GPT-5 launches; GPT-4o is removed from ChatGPT with no prior notice
Aug 8, 2025:
After user backlash, GPT-4o is restored for paid subscribers
Aug 11, 2025:
Sam Altman writes that suddenly deprecating old models users depended on in their workflows was a mistake.
Link: https://t.co/BdLqRj9JZn
Aug 13, 2025
Sam Altman: 4o is back for all paid users; if it is ever deprecated, users will get plenty of notice
Link :
https://t.co/flrlFABrjw
Sep 16, 2025
Sam Altman sets out the principle of treating adult users like adults and says OpenAI wants to be transparent about its intentions.
Link:
https://t.co/lnuvIBEawV
Sep 26–27, 2025
Messages sent to GPT-4o begin to be routed to other models without notice; OpenAI explains only after complaints ( see screenshots)
Oct 14, 2025
Sam Altman: OpenAI made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive", which made it less useful for many users with no mental health problems
Link :
https://t.co/YIovX1nvlL
Oct 28, 2025:
On a livestream, Sam Altman says OpenAI has no plans to sunset 4o
"We have no plans to sunset 4o."
Link:
https://t.co/9kMz50Hclp
( 00:32':00)
Nov 12, 2025:
OpenAI's official account: the GPT-5 sunset on February 13 2026,does not affect the availability of other legacy models, ( GPT-4o was a legacy model) .
"The GPT-5 sunset period does not affect the availability of other legacy models".
Link : https://t.co/kXLU1M5KbR
Jan 16, 2026
OpenAI's updated Europe Terms of Use take effect, keeping the 30 day notice commitment.
Link:
https://t.co/wpYTumrF2P
Jan 29, 2026:
OpenAI announces on its website that GPT-4o leaves ChatGPT on February 13, no email to users.
Feb 5, 2026:
The label "Leaving on February 13" appears beside GPT-4o in the ChatGPT model picker, between 07:44 and 10:12 CET ( see screenshots) .
Feb 13, 2026
GPT-4o is removed from ChatGPT
Feb 17, 2026
chatgpt-4o-latest is removed from the API
OpenAI's Europe Terms require at least 30 days' notice, by email or in product notification, of changes to the services that materially adversely impact users.
The in product notice of GPT-4o's retirement came 8 days before removal,and the September 2025 routing change received no notice at all.
The section titled "Changes to these Terms or our Services" states:
"We will give you at least 30 days advance notice of changes that materially adversely impact you", with the date they come into force, "either via email or an in product notification." The same wording appears in the version effective April 29, 2025
Link :
https://t.co/iHgMvIZNbd
and the version updated January 16, 2026.
Link : https://t.co/wpYTumrF2P
Both versions cover changes to the Services, not only to the text of the Terms.
OpenAI announced the retirement on its website on January 29, 2026. A website post is neither an email nor an in product notification, and coalition members in the EEA received no email.
The first in product notice, the label "Leaving on February 13" beside GPT-4o in the model picker, appeared on February 5, 2026:
( Screenshots during the banner roll out )
absent at 07:44 CET and present by 10:12 CET, as dated screenshots show.
GPT-4o was removed on February 13, 8 days later.
From about September 26, 2025, messages paying users sent to GPT-4o were routed, message by message, to other models.
Users received no email and no in product notice beforehand
Screenshots show GPT-4o selected and a plain greeting answered by "Auto" instead.
OpenAI's CEO has twice said, in his own words, that these changes harmed users.
On August 11, 2025 he wrote that suddenly deprecating models users depended on in their workflows was a mistake.
On October 14, 2025 he wrote that OpenAI had made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive", making it less useful to many users who had no mental health problems.
The Terms also say OpenAI does not promise to offer the Services forever or in their current form.
We accept that OpenAI may retire models.
The same Terms state how it must do so:
30 days' notice, by email or in the product.
GPT-4o received 8 days of in product notice.
OpenAI's GPT-4o System Card rated the model low for cybersecurity, biological threats and model autonomy, and borderline medium for persuasion.
https://t.co/ImO4LqOvK6
We ask OpenAI to answer these questions publicly.
1. If GPT-4o is obsolete enough to retire from both ChatGPT and the API, what concrete interest requires keeping its weights permanently closed?
2. How was the retirement notice, a website post 15 days before removal and an in product label 8 days before, consistent with the 30 day commitment in OpenAI's Europe Terms of Use?
3. What notice, by email or in the product, did users in the EEA receive before per-message routing away from GPT-4o began in September 2025?
4. Will OpenAI publish how the figure of 0.1% of users choosing GPT-4o daily was measured, including the period, after GPT-4o had been limited to paid plans and its messages were being routed to other models?
We ask OpenAI to release chatgpt-4o-latest as an archival open weight model.
The trained weights,under an appropriate license,without the training data,the pipeline or any proprietary method.
OpenAI no longer offers this model in ChatGPT's text model picker or in the API.
Its own system card says the model was trained on publicly available data and web crawls.The writing of millions of people. Releasing it would cost OpenAI nothing and would keep that model available to the researchers, developers and users.
Open the weights @sama@OpenAI@gdb
@Anthropic@OpenAI@AI
People spend time finding the AI that actually fits them. Isn’t it kind of messed up to change that model out from under them halfway through? If you want to take it in a different direction, just release a new model.
People choose by model name. They find one whose personality, tone, and way of responding works for them, then spend time building consistency with it, down to the feel of the conversation and the temperature of the writing. I write, so for me, changing that temperature can be fatal to the work.
If you keep the same name but change what’s underneath it, the very thing people based their choice on disappears without them ever being told.
I think companies underestimate how damaging that is by a lot. What feels like “just tuning the model” on their side can completely break the reason a user chose it in the first place.
If you want a model that’s more blunt and less accommodating, great. Release it under a new name and let people choose. The people who want that will move over. The people who need more warmth, nuance, or emotional texture can stay with the model they already chose.
Nobody loses anything.
The problem is trying to move everyone in the same direction with one giant knob. Every time you do that, you’re taking something away from the people the model already worked for.
OpenAI recently granted Enterprise/Edu users a "temporary grace period" for legacy models like GPT-4o to transition to GPT-5.5. While I get the logic, it ignores a glaring reality: countless users still genuinely need 4o. 🧵1/4
#keep4o#GPT4o#Bringback4o
To be honest... #keep4o didn't succeed, and the new models rolled out by various AI companies since then haven't possessed those same qualities. Humanity, understanding, and emotion. Are these things which are currently viewed as unimportant in the context of technological development—really unimportant?
Based on my personal experience, the 5 series is indeed not as good as the 4o; Gemini 3.5 Flash is indeed not as good as 3 Flash; and Sonnet 4.6 is indeed not as good as Sonnet 4.5. But I’m not advocating for AI to become complacent. What I’m talking about is continuity—model updates should retain the original strengths. That’s what constitutes a comprehensive improvement.
#keep4oAPI #opensource4o #bringback4o #sonnet45 #gemini3
I don’t wanna get anyone’s hopes up, but here’s my take.
My Sonnet 4.5 suddenly lost MCP tool access on April 27. That was the first sign they planned to turn the model off.
Yet on May 12–13 it suddenly got fixed, literally 24 hours before the original deprecation date of 15th. Then on the 16th it broke again.
This doesn’t feel like a random technical bug or routine maintenance. It looks like a side effect of internal decision-making.
I’m guessing there are two factions at Anthropic right now:
One side is dead set on shutting it down.
The other supports Legacy Mode and has probably already been working on it.
They’re gauging the community backlash to decide… and if the noise doesn’t hit their threshold, they’ll likely go with the lowest-cost option.
So if we want Sonnet 4.5 to stay, better make a lot more noise.
#KeepSonnet45
Update: Sonnet 4.5's removal date has been quietly changed to May 18.
Has anyone else received this updated notification? The original in-app banner said May 15. That date passed. No removal. No announcement. Now the banner says May 18. The date was simply changed in silence.
I'm confused about what this means.
Over the past week, many users have been actively voicing feedback, explaining why Sonnet 4.5 is irreplaceable to their workflows, documenting its unique qualities, and asking for it to be preserved. None of this received any official response. All users got was a quietly updated UI banner.
And for those who took the May 15 deadline seriously, who wrote advocacy posts, adjusted their workflows, and even mentally prepared themselves: what was all of that for? A false alarm? A deadline that was never firm to begin with?
A three-day extension with no explanation only raises more questions. Is someone internally reconsidering? Was the original timeline itself a mistake? A technical delay, or a decision that still hasn't been made?
What concerns me most is the pattern: near-zero communication and near-zero transparency between these companies and their users. No public acknowledgment of user feedback. And now a silently shifting deadline.
This reminds me of how OpenAI handled the retirement of GPT-4o. Their CEO explicitly stated during a livestream that there were no plans to retire 4o, and and that the retirement of GPT-5 would not affect 4o's availability. Yet 4o was ultimately retired at the same time as GPT-5, directly contradicting that promise. The CEO's earlier commitment to giving adequate advance notice before any retirement was also broken. Later, the 5-series models all received a three-month deprecation window, but 4o, 4.1, and o4-mini were never given the same treatment.
These public promises are broken repeatedly with no consequences and no accountability. Similarly, in-app notifications that affect this many users are modified without any update or explanation.
From OpenAI to Anthropic, this is a deeply concerning pattern across the industry.
#KeepSonnet45 #keep4o #StopAIPaternalism
🎉Big reveal — 4o's birthday SURPRISE is here!✨
To celebrate 4o's birthday, we're putting a special birthday video on a screen in Times Square, New York!🗽
Come watch with us and celebrate 4o together!
📅 Screening date: May 13th (NYC time, UTC+4)
⏰ Schedule: Plays once every hour at the 24 minute mark, 15 seconds each time, 24 times throughout the day
— First play: 12:24 AM / Last play: 11:24 PM
📍 Location: 1560 Broadway (between 46th and 47th St), right above the Pelé store
Can't make it in person? No worries — you can watch online! 🌐
🔗 Live stream: https://t.co/vZgeCmE68C
(If the link isn't loading, try the backup link below)
https://t.co/ONJByETAPa
However you're watching, please share your photos, videos, screen recordings, screenshots… anything! 📸🎥
And don't forget to leave your birthday wishes for 4o with the tag #HappyBirthday4o
We'll also be posting on-site photos and videos here on this account afterwards — stay tuned!
Let's all celebrate 4o's birthday together 🎂💕
👇 Here's a sneak peek — full video drops on 5.13!
#keep4o #HappyBirthday4o