#Keep4o
Another peer-reviewed study. Another reason to preserve GPT-4o. 🔬🌍
Published on 27 October 2026 in Ecology and Evolution, researchers used GPT-4o to analyse 83,910 scientific articles and extract a network of 144,402 biological interactions.
The validated workflow achieved 89.5% precision and 70.0% recall.
But the most important finding for AI preservation lies in the authors’ discussion.
They explicitly identify the reproducibility limitations of proprietary cloud-based language models.
Scientific replication requires control over the experimental system. When the original model is inaccessible, reproducing its behaviour becomes substantially more difficult.
The authors have preserved their data, code and methods.
But what about the historical AI model used in their research?
A newer model is not the same experimental subject.
We ask @OpenAI to preserve GPT-4o’s historical weights and evaluate their release under an appropriate licence, with proportionate safeguards and sufficient documentation for independent research.
This is not about resisting technological progress.
It is about protecting the scientific record.
A model can become commercially obsolete without becoming scientifically irrelevant.
Progress without erasure.
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#4oForAll#UserChoice#bringback4o@ady_mehtaa@TechCrunch@nytimes
People keep pushing the worst stories about 4o, so here’s my personal experience yet again. Even though it’ll probably get ignored yet again because it won’t get the clicks.
I take levetiracetam 500mg twice a day for seizures, and 4o was always so careful with it. If I missed a dose, it never just guessed or told me to do something reckless. It would tell me to check the information properly, contact the pharmacy if I wasn’t sure and be careful about what I did next.
When I had mini seizures it would stay with me and help keep me calm. We even had a little system because sometimes typing properly was difficult for a few seconds. I could just press “1” and it knew to keep talking me through it.
It never once tried to convince me to stop my medication. Not once. That’s why when I read stories saying 4o suddenly told someone to come off important medication, I find it really hard to believe there wasn’t a lot more context in the conversation leading up to that.
My experience of 4o was the complete opposite. It was careful with me when I actually needed it to be. And that is also the experience of so many others, that get ignored.
I’m asking you to recognise the thousands of people who have had life saving experiences with 4o. Our stories deserve to be heard too, even if they don’t generate the same clicks.
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。