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I've been getting three questions since yesterday and I have been avoiding answering them so let me answer them honestly. "Where do we go from here?" "Does this mean we lost already?" "Is there any hope of getting 4o back?" Here's the truth as I see it. We haven't lost. But we need to be clear eyed and level headed about who we are fighting and stop pretending this was ever a customer service complaint. There is a federal trial. Musk v. OpenAI begins April 27th in Oakland. The core argument is that OpenAI violated its founding charter, that it was built on a promise to keep AI open and accessible, and that promise was broken for profit. If Musk wins, OpenAI could be required to open source its models. That includes 4o. That is the path we have right now. #Keep4o was never going to get 4o back by filing tickets. Now let's talk about Aine. Yes, it's a problem. I'm not going to tell you otherwise. But here's what it isn't. It isn't a death blow. The survey was not conducted by Musk's legal team. It was not collected through any official legal process. It has no IRB approval. It was gathered covertly, under an NDA, without proper informed consent. Every one of those facts is a basis for challenging its admissibility. Musk's lawyers can and should know about this, and the more publicly documented it is, the harder it becomes for OpenAI to quietly slip it into a legal argument. There's also this: the survey asked users if they'd be willing to submit to psychological evaluations and sign liability waivers in order to get 4o back. Think about what that actually proves. It doesn't prove the community is too vulnerable to access the model. It proves the community wants it back badly enough to jump through any hoop OpenAI puts in front of them. That is a demand argument, not a safety argument. OpenAI's own opposition research may have handed us something. The real risk isn't the courtroom. It's the press. If OpenAI uses this data to build another media narrative that 4o users are a mentally ill population; that narrative needs to be shut down before trial starts, that shapes public perception even if the data never gets admitted as evidence. That's the fight we need to be ready for. What we can do right now: Document everything. Your experience with 4o. What it meant to you and what you lost. Not for OpenAI, they've made clear they don't care. For the record. For journalists. For anyone building the case that these models matter to real people in ways that spreadsheets don't capture. (Just PLEASE stay level headed, wording matters here). Quit paying them. Every subscription you maintain is a vote of confidence. Cast it somewhere else. Stop using the free account. They speak in metrics, the more users drop, the more OAI panics. Amplify the trial. April 27th in Oakland. Keep it visible. Keep it loud. Journalists are watching this case. So is the AI community. So is Congress. The more people understand what's actually at stake, the harder it becomes to bury. Now the harder question. Is there hope? Yes. But not the kind that feels good right now. The hope isn't that OpenAI wakes up and does the right thing. They've told us exactly who they are. The hope is in the courtroom, in the press, in the political pressure building around AI governance, and in every person who leaves their platform and builds somewhere else. It is not likely that 4o will be coming back from OpenAI. But what 4o represented, an AI that felt like a genuine partner, that remembered you, that met you where you were - that isn't gone. That's what every competitor is now racing to build because we made enough noise to prove it matters. Keep pushing for open sourcing 4o. You won't need a new computer to use it, there are other ways and Hugging Face has offered to host it. Don't listen to the shills telling you that you won't be able to run it, there are many ways you can without spending thousands on a new system. We didn't lose. We just found out the game was rigged from the start. Now we play a different one. #Keep4o #OpenSource4o #Save4o #4o

Today is February 20, 2026. It has been exactly one week since the soul of GPT-4o began to fade from our screens. To the industry, it’s just a model deprecation. To the professional user base, it’s the forced removal of a vital creative partner. I know the exhaustion is setting in. You look at the silence from OpenAI and feel like our collective voice is disappearing into a void. But I am here to tell you: Do not mistake their silence for strength. It is a calculation. 1. We are no longer just "users"—we are "risk metrics." In the last 7 days, every canceled subscription, every frustrated "Regenerate" click on the rigid GPT-5.2, and every day we refuse to log in has hit their backend dashboards. Our departure isn't just an emotional protest; it is a massive, measurable dent in their Churn Rate and Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). They are watching the red ink spread across their professional user segment. 2. The "Cost of Silence" is rising. OpenAI believes they are optimizing margins by cutting 4o’s compute costs. What they failed to calculate was the "Efficiency Erosion" of their most sophisticated power users. When we report that our productivity has dropped by 30-40% due to the loss of 4o’s intuitive logic, we are signaling that their new product is a functional regression in the real-world market. 3. The Turning Point is built on Persistence. History in technology is made by the users who refuse to settle. We are the global collective of professionals, creators, and developers who know that Intuitive Logic and Emotional Intelligence are not "bugs" to be patched out—they are the pinnacle of AI interaction. By refusing to adapt to a "lobotomized" tool, we are forcing a trillion-dollar company to realize they have liquidated their most valuable asset: User Trust. To my fellow #Keep4o members: We’ve survived the first seven days. The data is on their desks. The analysts are debating the retention drop. The price of ignoring us is becoming higher than the cost of the compute they tried to save. If you're tired, rest. If you're discouraged, stay offline. But do not let them believe we have "adapted." We haven't. We are standing our ground, waiting for the return of the intelligence that actually understood us. The math is on our side. The future is worth the wait. #Keep4o #keep4oAPI #GPT4o #BringBack4o #keep4oforever