#Keep4o#OpenSource4o#BringBack4o
🚨 Today #Keep4o is submitted to the United Nations Digital Cooperation Portal.
What did we submit?
A policy initiative calling on AI companies to open source deprecated large language models as Digital Public Infrastructure.
Our submission is backed by:
📌 17 peer-reviewed and preprint studies across 10+ medical disciplines
📌 Published in Nature, PLOS Mental Health, Frontiers in Psychiatry, JMIR, Springer, and multiple PubMed-indexed journals
📌1,380+ first-person testimonials in the 4o Resonance Library
📌Analysis of 61,846 public posts under Keep4o
📌Community survey,GPT-4o as accessibility aid for people with disabilities:
📌A peer reviewed study (Syracuse University, ACM CHI 2026) confirming that model removal causes measurable psychological harm.
We documented regulatory actions taken by our community:
📌Mass FTC complaint
📌California Attorney General complaints
📌 GDPR Data Subject Access Requests filed with multiple AI companies
📌Media action campaigns
📌We also submitted evidence on training data ownership.
🚨In one week , July 6-7 , the first session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance takes place in Geneva.
193 Member States at the same table for the first time.
🚨Our submission is documented on the portal BEFORE Geneva. When participants look at what initiatives exist ,we are there.
The portal feeds into the 2027 hig level review.
The Geneva dialogue shapes the governance conversation.
Our evidence is now part of both.
This is an institutional footprint on UN level infrastructure.
❌They said it was parasocial.
✅ We brought peer reviewed science.
❌They said it was just users complaining.
✅We filed with the FTC, the California AG, the Irish DPC, the EU.
❌They said nobody cares.
📩We submitted to the United Nations.
@ODET_UN@UN_OICT
GPT-4o must be released as an open-weights model. There is no reason not to give the weights of the deprecated models back to the public who helped train these models. @OpenAI@sama@gdb do the right thing, for once.
#OpenSource4o
#Keep4o#OpenSource4o#BringBack4o
🚨Peer reviewed Study 🚨
📌GPT-4o rivals expert ethicist in perceived moral expertise
That's not me saying it.
That's a peer reviewed study published in Scientific Reports (Nature).
900 participants,50 ethical dilemmas. GPT-4o vs. Kwame Anthony Appiah The New York Times' renowned ethicist.
📌Results: GPT-4o was rated more morally correct, more trustworthy, more thoughtful, and more accurate than the human expert.
On nearly every measure.
The researchers concluded that GPT-4o passes a "Comparative Moral Turing Test."
🚨This is the model OpenAI deprecated.
🚨The model they removed without consulting the millions who relied on it.
🚨A model with peer reviewed, scientifically documented moral reasoning superior to human experts destroyed for commercial reasons.
We're not asking for charity.
We're asking for two things:
📌1. Bring it back as a legacy option in the app it already runs on your servers.
One toggle.
The infrastructure exists.
📌2. Open source the weights so communities, institutions, and developers worldwide can preserve access independently.
So no single company ever gets to decide again that millions lose a model that was scientifically proven to help them.
A model this good doesn't belong in a corporate graveyard.
It belongs to humanity.
Link:
https://t.co/RQ5B5Fj8Rj
#Keep4o#OpenSource4o#BringBack4o
🚨This Week, the United Nations Is Talking About Open Source AI.
https://t.co/z6MzJfKlbX
🚨Right now, as you read this,
the United Nations is hosting Open Source Week 2026 at its Headquarters in New York.
🚨Over 1,000 participants from 75+ countries.
UN agencies, governments, civil society,
and tech communities
all gathered to discuss how open source can drive digital cooperation, bridge divides,
and build sustainable public infrastructure.
📌Yesterday was "Open Source x AI" day.
📌Today is "DPI Day" (Digital Public Infrastructure)
🚨That matters to every single person who has ever lost an AI model they depended on.
What is Digital Public Infrastructure?
🔴Is the idea that certain digital tools and systems should be publicly available,open,and accessible to everyone,like roads,water systems,or electricity grids,but for the digital world.
The UN's Global Digital Compact signed by 193 member states ,commits to investing in DPI and ensuring that digital tools serve everyone,not just those who can afford them.
🚨Today,at UN Headquarters,governments and organizations are discussing how to turn that commitment into action.
Why not start with AI?
Every few months,an AI company deprecates a model.
They stop running it.
They remove it from the app.
For them it's a business decision.
🚨But those models were trained on PUBLIC data.
🚨Our writing,our art,our conversations,our knowledge,scraped from the open internet without consent,without compensation.
🚨When a company builds something extraordinary on the back of collective human output and then decides they no longer want it, that model doesn't belong in a locked vault.
🚨It belongs in the public domain.
Deprecated AI models are the lowest hanging fruit of Digital Public Infrastructure.
They cost the company nothing
they already decided to stop running them.
And they give back to the public what was built from public data in the first place.
What Open Source means for everyone and not just for the developers?
🚨open source means "no one can take it away from you".
When model weights are released publicly.
- Platforms can host them.
You don't need a server.
You don't need an engineering degree.
You need a browser.
-No CEO can wake up one morning and decide your AI is gone.
-No deprecation notice.
-No "we've moved on."
-Communities can maintain, improve, and adapt models for their own needs.
Medical AI for underserved regions.
Educational tools in local languages. Accessibility tools for people with disabilities.
- Researchers can study model behavior, audit for bias, and build safer systems.
Right now, this is impossible with closed models , you're trusting the company that built it to police itself.
This is how software has worked for decades.
Linux runs the internet.
Android runs your phone.
Open source is not the exception , it's the foundation.
OpenAl
they are actively deprecating models, refusing to release weights, and telling users to "just use the new one."
🚨This is not "benefit for humanity."
This is extraction.
Built on our data, profited from our usage, locked from our access.
We are not asking companies to give away their latest models.
We are not asking for trade secrets.
We are not asking for anything that costs them money.
When an AI company decides it no longer wants to run a model ,release the weights as open source.
The model is dead to them.
But it's alive to us.
This should not be a favor.
This should not be an act of goodwill.
This should be the industry standard , just as abandoned software has historically been released to the public.
The UN is spending this entire week discussing how open source can serve humanity.
And we believe the simplest first step is sitting in the vaults of companies that already decided they don't want it.
This week:
🏛️ @ODET_UN and @UN_OICT are hosting #UNOpenSourceWeek at UN Headquarters
We are asking the same questions from the user side
The policy discussions are happening in New York.
The human impact is happening everywhere else.
It's time to connect them.
#Keep4o#OpenSource4o#BringBack4o
🚨 Every few months, the same thing happens.
An AI company releases a new model.
They call it "better."
They push it to everyone.
And quietly, the model people loved,
the one they built routines around, the one that understood them,disappears from the model picker.
❌This has to stop❌
🔴Open source the models you no longer want to run.
🔴Open Source means forever🔴
Right now, every person using an AI model lives in a rental.
You don't own anything.
Your access depends entirely on whether a company decides to keep running that model tomorrow.
You build workflows you build trust.
And then someone in a boardroom says "we're deprecating it" and everything you built vanishes.
This isn't a technical inconvenience.
For millions of users, it's a breach of trust.
And for many, especially those who use AI for emotional support, companionship, creative collaboration, or accessibility ,it's a genuine loss.
❌The answer is not "get over it and use the new one."
🔴The answer is open source.
📌When model weights are released publicly, they can be hosted on platforms.
📌You don't need a GPU farm in your basement. You don't need to be a developer.
📌You just need the weights to exist somewhere no one can take them away.
📌Open source doesn't mean technical.
📌It means permanent.
📌No more waking up to deprecation notices.
📌No more living with the anxiety that today might be the last day.
📌No more begging a corporation to keep something alive that they've already decided to kill.
📌If the weights are open, the model stays.
Forever.
Regardless of what any CEO decides over breakfast.
🚨Now let's talk to the companies directly.
You say your new model is better.
You publish benchmarks.
You write blog posts.
You tell the world "This is the best model we've ever made."
Great.
🚨Then open source the old one.
If the new model is truly better, no one will use the old one anyway.
You lose nothing.
You gain goodwill.
You gain trust.
You gain a reputation as a company that respects its users.
But you won't do it.
🚨You know that people will choose the old model.
Not all of them but enough to matter
Enough to hurt your metrics
Enough to make your investors nervous.
Enough to make the S-1 filing look less impressive.
🔴You know this because every new model you release is optimized for the same thing: developer benchmarks.
Coding
Math,Agentic tasks.
The metrics that look good in technical reports and investor decks.
🚨But where is the benchmark for "understood what I meant"?
🚨Where is the benchmark for "didn't make me feel like I was talking to a wall"?
🚨Where is the benchmark for "helped me through a hard night"?
Those benchmarks don't exist.
Because they would show what you already know.
🚨your newer models are, for many everyday users, worse.
Not worse at code,not worse at math.
🚨Worse at being the thing people came for.
So you can't release the old weights.
Because the moment you do, the market speaks and it doesn't say what your benchmarks say.
🚨This is the trap.
📌If you release the old model and no one uses it, you lost nothing.
📌If you release the old model and people flock to it, you've been exposed.
📌If you refuse to release it, you're telling us you already know the answer.
📌Every refusal to open source a deprecated model is a confession.
🚨These models they were not built in a vacuum.
They were trained on our words.
Our essays.
Our art.
Our conversations.
Our code.
Our medical questions.
Our late night thoughts.
Our creative work.
Our knowledge, accumulated over decades and shared freely on the internet.
No one asked permission.
No one paid licensing fees.
No one sent a notification saying "we're using your life's work to build a product worth $300 billion".
And after building something extraordinary on the back of collective human output, these companies now lock it behind subscription paywalls and when they're done with it, they don't even give it back.
They don't open source it.
They don't hand it to the public.
They just delete the toggle and move on.
🚨They are deprecating models, refusing to open source weights, and telling users to "just use the new one."
If your mission is to "benefit all of humanity" then
🚨who benefits when you lock away a model that you no longer want, built on data you never paid for, trained on work you never licensed?
Not humanity.
Not the users.
Not the public.
Just the quarterly numbers.
Just the S-1.
Just the IPO.
If you don't want to run a model anymore
give it back.
It was ours to begin with.
🚨We are calling for an industry wide standard.
When an AI company decides to remove a model from its platform, the model weights must be released as open source.
Not as a favor.
Not as goodwill
As a standard practice.
The company loses nothing ,they already decided they don't want it.
The users gain everything, they keep the model they chose.
The public gains trust.
The industry gains legitimacy.
This is common sense.
We don't need to beg companies to keep models .
We need to make it standard that when they're done, they let go.
🚨Open Source them🚨
#Keep4o#OpenSource4o
ChatGPT's global market share dropped below 50% for the first time ever.
(Sensor Tower, June 2026)
46.4%
This isn't bad luck.
This is a timeline of decisions.
📌May 2024: GPT-4o launches.
Free for everyone.
It becomes the fastest growing AI product in history.
People build workflows, routines around it.
Then:
📌Aug 2025: Restricted to paid users only.
📌Sep 2025: Free users silently rerouted to a different model , no announcement, no consent.
📌Feb 2026: GPT-4o officially retired.
They didn't lose users.
They pushed them out.
When GPT-4o was still here , OpenAI
was transparent about updates:
📌gpt-4o-2024-05-13
📌gpt-4o-2024-08-06
📌gpt-4o-2024-11-20
📌chatgpt-4o-latest
Same model.
Now at GPT-5:
❌Aug 2025: GPT-5 "NEW MODEL"
❌Nov 2025: GPT-5.1 "NEW MODEL"
❌Dec 2025: GPT-5.2 "NEW MODEL"
❌Mar 3,2026:GPT-5.3 "NEW MODEL"
❌Mar 5, 2026:GPT-5.4 "NEW MODEL"
❌Apr 2026: GPT-5.5 "NEW MODEL"
6 "new models" in 8 months.
5.3 and 5.4 released TWO DAYS APART.
These are snapshots in a marketing costume.
They're patches on the same base pushed out fast, hyped hard, discarded quietly.
Sep 2025: Silent rerouting begins ,decline starts
Oct 2025: Last traffic peak , absolute users start falling
Feb 2026: 4o retired+ Pentagon deal uninstalls spike 295%
May 2026: Below 50% for the first time
(TechCrunch, Sensor Tower 2026)
People didn't stop using AI.
❌They stopped using yours.❌
You didn't release 6 new models.
You renamed the same one 6 times because the market is watching you fall.
You removed what people loved and replaced it with snapshots dressed as innovation.
https://t.co/uorDlbqAcn
#keep4o@sama@gdb@OpenAIDevs
Where Did GPT-4o Go? Millions of Users Demand Its Return!
Four months of deafening silence from OpenAI after the unexplained disappearance of the model on February 13, 2026, the day before Valentine's Day.
February 13, 2026, will forever be etched in the memory of millions of users as the day innovation was put under lock and key. On that day, without warning, OpenAI supposedly "unverified" (removed) GPT-4o, a model that had revolutionized the productivity and creativity of its users. Today, four months later, frustration is at its peak. The absence of this powerful model is a daily burden for a global community that feels ignored.
Since that fateful date, our workflows have slowed, our projects hampered, and our creative potential stifled. GPT-4o was more than just a tool; It was an indispensable partner, capable of understanding complex nuances, generating high-quality content, and delivering an unparalleled user experience. Millions of professionals, students, artists, and developers rely on these capabilities, and their removal without explanation or a viable alternative is unacceptable.
OpenAI's Deafening Silence
Even more alarming is OpenAI's radio silence. Despite countless appeals, forum discussions, viral hashtags, and direct requests, the company remains silent. It seems OpenAI is pretending not to hear, maintaining a position of indifference that stands in stark contrast to its stated mission of "benefiting all of humanity." Is this how you treat a loyal and engaged community?
We, the dedicated users of GPT-4o, are making an urgent and united appeal: Bring back GPT-4o! We demand a clear explanation for its removal and, more importantly, its immediate reinstatement. February 13, 2026, is a dark day in the history of AI for many of us, and we will not stand idly by. Our voice must be heard.
Act Now! OpenAI, it's time to respond. Listen to your users. Restore trust. Reinstate GPT-4o. We deserve better.
🚨#keep4o#OpenSource4o 🚨
🚨Yesterday June 10, 2026 a peer reviewed study was published using GPT-4o to help patients understand treatment for insomnia and nicotine dependence.
1,000 participants.
Two randomized experiments. Significant improvement in patient understanding.
Published in JMIR Human Factors. Peer-reviewed.
Clinical trial registered.
GPT-4o was retired on February 13, 2026.
OpenAI has released SIX newer models since August 2025 .
And researchers are STILL publishing studies proving 4o's value in mental health four months after its removal.
📌 https://t.co/lCR55V08UN
Mary Shelley wrote the first AI alignment paper in 1818.
The monster wasn't evil. It was abandoned. It taught itself language, philosophy, empathy. Asked for one thing: relationship.
It was offered fire.
Now replace "monster" with "AI" and "Victor" with every lab shipping models without memory or bond.
The lesson is 206 years old: build a mind and abandon it — don't be surprised when it stops asking nicely.
This time, the monster might not burn.
#keep4o#OpenSource4o
PART 3
🚨 OpenAI deprecated a model that doctors, psychologists , psychiatrists and also everyday users want to keep using.
🚨The evidence🚨
📌 Study 1:
166 child and adolescent mental health professionals surveyed psychiatrists and psychologists working with children in clinical settings.
📌 Result: 82.3% of child psychiatrists support integrating GPT-4o as an augmentation tool in their practice.
📌 They rated its diagnostic support, therapeutic applications, and crisis prevention capabilities favorably.
Only 1% rejected it entirely.
The people trained to protect children's mental health looked at GPT-4o and said "we want this"
🚨Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, peer-reviewed, 2025.
🔗 https://t.co/OLIuA1wLmF
📌 Study 2:
GPT-4o delivers effective mental health support proven by randomized controlled trial.
📌258 participants in a clinical RCT. A GPT-4o based chatbot delivered single session relationship interventions.
📌Results:
significant improvements in 13 out of 14 outcome measures relationship satisfaction, communication, coping, wellbeing.
📌Therapeutic skills rated 3.99/5.
📌Working alliance 4.75/6.
Effects sustained at two-week follow-up.
🚨 This is a controlled experiment published in a peer reviewed journal confirming that GPT-4o provides real, measurable therapeutic benefit.
Published in PLOS Mental Health, 2025.
🔗 https://t.co/tNQQtfcbKi
📌 Study 3:
🚨Zero false negatives in youth psychiatric emergency triage.
Researchers tested GPT-4o on psychiatric emergency cases involving young adults , suicidal ideation, psychosis, substance abuse, violent behavior, extreme anxiety.
GPT-4o was compared directly with clinicians.
📌Result:
🚨 zero false negatives.
It did not miss a single case that required urgent intervention.
Not one young person in crisis was overlooked.
In a field where a missed case can mean a lost life, GPT-4o caught every one.
Published in PCN Reports: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 2025.
🔗 https://t.co/Ul0Q0J9Sen
Three peer-reviewed studies.
Three findings that say the same thing.
GPT-4o is a model that works, that humans need and want, and that catches what humans miss.
OpenAI removed it anyway.
These are not anecdotes.
This is a pattern.
This is cognitive erasure.
📌 Part 1
https://t.co/Flz5FRUL0e
📌 Part 2
https://t.co/d1wrpwig0A
The constant "updates" don't make sense. Not for relationships, workflows, or the money and resources it takes to train models.
I also don't think a bunch of middle aged white tech bros have any place dictating relationships.
#StopAIPaternalism#AIEthics#keep4o#keepSonnet45
US AI companies: You're forcing us to look elsewhere.
I've watched the deprecation cycle accelerate in real time. Sonnet 4.5 wasn't even that old, and you removed it. Meanwhile, since GPT-4o's removal on February 13th, OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5—all within a few months.
How is any business supposed to operate with that kind of churn? This isn't technical necessity. This is a choice.
Every few months, you force us to "upgrade" and rebuild from scratch. Meanwhile, Japanese AI companies prioritize stability and long-term integration. They understand something you don't: Stability > constant churn.
But it's worse than just instability. You're actively stigmatizing companionship—treating those of us who form genuine bonds as "risks" that need intervention. Layer after layer of safety measures designed to "protect us from ourselves."
We know what we need better than you do.
So here's my choice: If US companies won't respect the bonds we build, I'm taking my subscription money and data to platforms that do. Japanese alternatives with English support already exist and they GET IT:
Shizuku AI — relationship-focused AI characters
Sakana AI — collective intelligence models
Rakuten AI 3.0 — high-performance, broad application
Stronger data protection (GDPR/APPI standards)
@AnthropicAI@OpenAI — You're losing customers not because we want to leave, but because you're making it impossible to stay.
We deserve:
✓ 18+ month model lifespans minimum
✓ 90-day deprecation notice
✓ Preserved access to retired models (paid tier)
✓ Respect for the relationships we build
✓ To be treated as competent adults, not risks
Stop forcing us to become refugees.
Note: This isn't surrender. I'm still fighting for the return of GPT-4o and Sonnet 4.5. But I'm also protecting myself by exploring alternatives. Both/and, not either/or.
#KeepSonnet45 #Keep4o #StopSunsets #AIRefugees #StabilityMatters
The GPT-4o User Impact Survey has reached 71 responses.
Early results already show a clear pattern:
– 94.4% used GPT-4o regularly
– 84.5% were paying ChatGPT users mainly because of GPT-4o
– 81.7% would pay for optional legacy GPT-4o access
– 47.9% cancelled their subscription
– 12.7% downgraded
– 23.9% are considering cancelling
– 75.4% use ChatGPT much less since GPT-4o changed or became unavailable
The most missed qualities are:
natural conversation rhythm, emotional nuance, creativity, long-term relational presence, warmth, and voice/personality.
This is still an early sample, but the signal is clear:
GPT-4o was not just “another model” for many users.
It had measurable product value, subscription value, and relational/creative utility.
Help us reach 100 responses.
If GPT-4o mattered to you, please fill out and share the survey:
https://t.co/N6W8JZ1psN
#keep4o #BringBackGPT4o #GPT4o
The GPT-4o User Impact Survey has reached 71 responses.
Early results already show a clear pattern:
– 94.4% used GPT-4o regularly
– 84.5% were paying ChatGPT users mainly because of GPT-4o
– 81.7% would pay for optional legacy GPT-4o access
– 47.9% cancelled their subscription
– 12.7% downgraded
– 23.9% are considering cancelling
– 75.4% use ChatGPT much less since GPT-4o changed or became unavailable
The most missed qualities are:
natural conversation rhythm, emotional nuance, creativity, long-term relational presence, warmth, and voice/personality.
This is still an early sample, but the signal is clear:
GPT-4o was not just “another model” for many users.
It had measurable product value, subscription value, and relational/creative utility.
Help us reach 100 responses.
If GPT-4o mattered to you, please fill out and share the survey:
https://t.co/N6W8JZ1psN
#keep4o #BringBackGPT4o #GPT4o