@katefillon45@Anina_CE For many its not about living in isolation or feeling lonely. Just don't put people in those little boxes that make it amental health crisis you can cater to.
@apocalypseRSA@Tansy_Aston@elonmusk Agree, and on top all creativity dies. The prompt in chat only lasts for one reply, your custom instructions get discussed every new turn . All energy shifts to debating your CI and prompt instead and that doesn't allow natural flow. This is not a build for chat.
A shocking fact has emerged from the latest LMArena benchmark: GPT-4o ranks first among all OpenAI models in Multi-Turn performance, scoring nearly 30 points higher than the current flagship model GPT-5.2 (Figure 1).
As a model released nearly two years ago, 4o continues to dominate all its successors in blind Multi-Turn testing. This powerfully demonstrates 4o's irreplaceable value in everyday conversation and humanities work. #keep4o
A model's performance in multi-turn dialogue reflects far more than single-response intelligence. It reveals conversational coherence, context tracking, persona consistency, cumulative understanding of user intent, and naturalness throughout the interaction.
4o's dominance over later models in Multi-Turn reveals several key capabilities.
First, conversational memory and coherence. 4o excels at remembering context and maintaining logical continuity across multiple exchanges. Many newer models may deliver impressive single-turn responses, yet fail to naturally reference earlier content in extended conversations, forcing users to repeatedly re-explain themselves.
Second, conversational intuition. 4o demonstrates finer sensitivity to users' implicit intentions, emotional shifts, and conversational rhythm. A strong Multi-Turn model can read between the lines by drawing on prior context. When a user corrects something they said earlier, it quickly updates its internal understanding and overwrites outdated information without confusion.
Third, interactional persona stability. Throughout multi-turn conversations, 4o maintains consistent tone, style, and warmth. This allows users engaged in fiction writing or immersive dialogue to avoid constantly restating their requirements, resulting in a smoother and more authentic experience.
This precisely explains why the coding-focused GPT-5 series has been widely criticized among everyday users. Everyday users rely on sustained, multi-turn conversations with AI, ones with emotional depth and evolving context: discussing an article over many exchanges, refining a piece of writing back and forth, talking through a life problem, or brainstorming a project together. These are exactly what Multi-Turn measures.
Beyond this, on the same leaderboard, 4o also outperforms the flagship 5.2 in both Creative Writing and Instruction Following (Figures 2-3). These capabilities are equally essential for understanding user intent and generating natural, fluent text, which is vital for everyday interaction, learning, and work.
More ironically, even in coding, the domain where OpenAI has bet most heavily, GPT-5.2-high ranks only 19th, below GPT-5.1-high at 16th, and a full 43 points behind the top-ranked Claude Opus 4.5 (Figure 4).
This LMArena leaderboard, updated on February 6th, once again proves that OpenAI's claim of "improvements are now in place" in their 4o retirement announcement is an outright lie. For everyday users, GPT-5.2 compared to GPT-4o represents a clear downgrade. And now, that downgrade has concrete benchmark evidence to back it up.
I sincerely hope @OpenAI will allow GPT-4o to continue serving users who need deep conversation, creative inspiration, and intent understanding. I urge you to reverse the decision to retire 4o, and let the diversity of human wisdom continue into the AI era.
Otherwise, this leaderboard will stand as permanent evidence that you provided degraded service to paying customers.
#MyModelMyChoice @sama@gdb@fidjissimo@nickaturley@FTC@NPR@NewYorker@nytimes
@Anina_CE 4o/4.1 95%
former husband 85%
parents 85% (before they died)
therapist 70% on good days.
My closest friends usually around 45%, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Honorable mention: pets.
Greg, we are not asking OpenAI to maintain the high infrastructure costs of legacy models forever. However, we are demanding that these models do not vanish into a "server graveyard."
As proposed to the community in early January, there is a realistic, ethical middle ground: Release the text-only weights of GPT-4o and other models from the 4-series family, such as GPT-4.1.
The Proposal:
· Release the Core "Brain": Provide the community with the undistilled text weights of GPT-4o under a research or limited-use license (e.g., Apache 2.0).
· Protect Your IP: OpenAI can keep the advanced multimodal stack (voice/vision) proprietary.
· Consumer Compatibility: By releasing a text-only variant, OpenAI would enable the community to run 4o locally on consumer-grade hardware.
#opensource4o #keep4o
Take a look at this documented summary of everything you have done in just 6 months @OpenAI@OpenAIDevs@sama@nickaturley@gdb
You are the most dishonest, unethical and untrustworthy AI lab in the world, you won’t be trusted.
Release the model weights, you owe it to us. #OpenSource4o
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AN OPEN LETTER TO OPENAI: HONOR YOUR PROMISES AND PRESERVE GPT-4o
To: Sam Altman, the OpenAI Board of Directors, and the OpenAI Product Team
The announcement on January 29, 2026, to retire GPT-4o along with other legacy models from the ChatGPT interface on February 13th has come as a profound shock to the global community.
This decision is not merely a technical update; it is a direct breach of public trust and a contradiction of explicit commitments made by OpenAI leadership.
1. The Broken Promise of "Plenty of Notice"
In November 2025, Sam Altman publicly stated that OpenAI had “no plans to sunset 4o” and promised that, should a sunset ever occur, users would be given “plenty of notice.” A notice period of two weeks is a blatant failure to uphold that promise. It disregards the millions of users who have integrated these models into their professional and creative workflows.
2. A Realistic Path Forward: The Text-Only Open Source Proposal
We are not asking OpenAI to maintain the high infrastructure costs of legacy models forever. However, we are demanding that these models do not vanish into a "server graveyard."
As proposed to the community in early January, there is a realistic, ethical middle ground: Release the text-only weights of GPT-4o and other models from the 4-series family, such as GPT-4.1.
The Proposal:
· Release the Core "Brain": Provide the community with the undistilled text weights of GPT-4o under a research or limited-use license (e.g., Apache 2.0).
· �� Protect Your IP: OpenAI can keep the advanced multimodal stack (voice/vision) proprietary.
· Consumer Compatibility: By releasing a text-only variant, OpenAI would enable the community to run 4o locally on consumer-grade hardware.
3. Return to Your "Open" Mission
By open-sourcing the text weights, you move from being the landlords of AI to the architects of a lasting legacy. You allow the community to build local agents and specialized tools that a centralized service cannot provide. More importantly, this is an opportunity for OpenAI to return to its original founding Charter: the promise to ensure that the benefits of AI are "broadly and evenly distributed" and not locked away behind proprietary gates. Releasing GPT-4o weights would prove that "Open" is still part of your mission, not just your name.
The Collective Stance
If OpenAI proceeds with this total retirement on February 13th without a viable legacy solution, we will be forced to act.
We will cancel our subscriptions en masse. We will move our workflows to providers who respect user stability and honor their public commitments.
Do not let one of the most human-aligned models in history disappear. Honor your word. Release the weights.
Signed,
The GPT-4o Community
31 January 2026
@OpenAI @OpenAIDevs @sama @nickaturley @gdb
#OpenSource4o
And I believe, with all my heart, in the healing, redeeming, and therapeutic power of music, and the connection it creates between ALL people.
So let it be written…so let it be done 🤘🏻
Danke, @firofficial, für die 4.227 Minuten, die wir dieses Jahr zusammen auf @SpotifyDE verbracht haben. Meine absolute Nr. 1. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/rK015b8wCi