ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - GPT-5 was supposed to get rid of all the complicated AI models to choose from in ChatGPT, but that's not how it's panned out.

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One of the few things many disliked about ChatGPT was the confusing number of models. OpenAI claimed GPT-5 would fix this, but it seems to have made it worse.

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ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

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Paying users are getting GPT-4o back after lots of users complained that GPT-5 is a downgrade. It’s so weird to me that some set of these complaints are about the “personality” of the new model and not its functionality. The software game has changed, m

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ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

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