Openai Archive

Some folks aren’t taking the upgrade to ChatGPT 5 well, and the news that OpenAI may bring ads to the bot probably won’t help matters.

OpenAI’s upgrade to the “much less sycophantic” GPT-5 was rough enough that the company quickly reopened the doors to old GPT-4o models.

CEO Sam Altman wrote on X that OpenAI plans to update the model to “feel warmer than the current personality but not as annoying (to most users) as GPT-4o.” He added, “One learning for us from the past few days is we really just need to get to a world with more per-user customization of model personality.”

This article digs into the ChatGPT conversation history of a 47-year-old Canadian man who was told by the bot that he’d “discovered a novel mathematical formula” that could take down the internet and create a force field vest.

“The numbers here were accurate but we screwed up the bar charts in the livestream overnight; on another slide we screwed up numbers,” Altman said. “People were working late and were very tired, and human error got in the way. A lot comes together for a livestream in the last hours.”