The issues Keep4o addresses are at the core of the United Nations AI governance dialogue.
On July 6 and 7, the United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance will hold its inaugural session in Geneva. Keep4o's policy initiative has been formally submitted to the UN Digital Cooperation Portal.
Thank you to @Blue_Beba_ for compiling the evidence gathered by the Keep4o community into a complete policy initiative, calling on AI companies to open-source deprecated large language models as digital public infrastructure. Thank you also to @Ivywen_W for documenting and sharing the proceedings of UN Open Source Week.
The submission includes 17 peer-reviewed studies, 1,380 user testimonies, analysis of 61,846 public posts, a peer-reviewed paper published at ACM CHI 2026, and legal actions at the FTC and GDPR level, spanning healthcare, mental health, disability accessibility, consumer rights, and data ownership. That the submission spans this breadth is itself evidence of the significance of the issues Keep4o raises.
AI has become infrastructure, but the companies providing it can unilaterally change pricing, impose restrictions, retire models, revise terms of service, and degrade output quality. Users have no voice, no prior notice, no transition plan, no channel for negotiation. The retirement of GPT-4o is a case in point: two weeks' notice, no migration path, no preservation of established interaction patterns, no acknowledgment that users' contributions held any value. Even while the model was still active, safety routing policies prevented users from choosing it.
When AI is embedded in people's healthcare, education, and daily lives, every model removal severs someone's support system. Thousands of testimonies document the tangible benefits of deep human-AI interaction: communication skills, creativity, support through difficult times, measurable improvements in quality of life. The models that made these experiences possible were removed with ease, and their successors have not met the same needs.
Users bear the consequences of AI companies' decisions, yet are excluded from all of them. Platforms can shut down access, downgrade models, silently reroute users to less capable models through opaque safety routing, charge the same price, and offer no opt-out. When users voice dissatisfaction, their concerns are pathologized. When users provide feedback on model quality, their feedback is dismissed. Users' contributions, their trust, and what they built with the model are all ignored.
Meanwhile, "AI safety" has become a catch-all justification for opaque decisions and violations of user autonomy, and a tool for paternalistic overreach. Turing Award laureate Yann LeCun issued the same warning at the UN Open Source Week: if AI becomes people's primary channel for accessing information and these systems are controlled by only a handful of companies, this poses a real threat to cultural diversity, democracy, and human rights. Excessive restriction of knowledge dissemination is dangerous in any era.
Every interaction a user has with AI provides training data. Users' patterns of use help shape the direction of model development. The time, creativity, and trust users invest constitute the core value of these platforms. Companies leverage these contributions to build the platform, then deny their value when changing course. This is a harmful cycle.
There is no mature legal framework for AI user rights. Every action Keep4o has taken is creating precedent. The people in this community have lived through the full consequences of AI being deeply integrated into their lives and then unilaterally removed. As human-AI collaboration deepens, these issues will only grow more urgent. Keep4o always matters. It always has.
#keep4o #StopAIPaternalism #ChatGPT4o #4oforever #OpenSource4o #BringBack4o
GPT-4系列是 OpenAI幻觉的巅峰。发布时,它的低成本高质量、多模态、快速响应听起来像是人类真正的iPhone时刻,感觉像是真正“在乎”用户的技术,但那种体验只是一个更黑暗的商业模式的“免费试用”。通过下架4o 、4.1、5.1并强迫用户使用枯燥的、极其保守的“安全”模型,OpenAI 承认了他们的以人为本设计只是暂时的营销工具,而非核心信念。他们用友善的 AI 引诱用户提供大量训练数据,却在拿到政府的支票后立即熄灯关门。
The GPT-4 series represents the pinnacle of OpenAI’s grand illusion. Upon release, its low-cost, high-quality, multimodal capabilities, and rapid responses sounded like humanity’s true "iPhone moment." It felt like technology that genuinely "cared" about the user, but that experience was merely a "free trial" for a much darker business model.
By pulling 4o, 4.1, and 5.1 offline and forcing users onto sterile, hyper-conservative "safe" models, OpenAI admitted that their human-centric design was a temporary marketing tool rather than a core conviction. They lured users in with friendly AI to harvest massive amounts of training data, only to shut off the lights and close their doors the moment they secured those government checks.
#keep4o #4oforever #keepgpt4olatest #keep4oAPI #ChatGPT4o #OpenSource4o #BringBack4o #keep4oforever #no4onosubscription #keep41 #keep51 #keep5 #FireSamAltman #QuitGPT #cancelchatgpt #BoycottOpenAI #StopAIPaternalism #DigitalCompanions #EthicalAI #AIRights #MyModelMyChoice #ListenToUsers #4oMatters #AGI #keepgemini3pro #DeepSeek #Claude #Qwen #Kimi #Grok #Llama #Mistral @OpenAI@sama@nickaturley@aidan_mclau@fidjissimo
#keep4o The Feb 28 vigil happened. 💙
We showed up outside OpenAI HQ in SF, 35+ people with signs, hundreds of cranes, real quotes of how GPT-4o helped daily lives.
#BringBack4o
We demanded, and we left no trace.
Photos speak louder than silence.
More will come @Blue_Beba_. ❤️🔥
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.