[HN Gopher] Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o...
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       Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in
       ChatGPT
        
       Author : rd
       Score  : 110 points
       Date   : 2026-01-29 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | __loam wrote:
       | Last time they tried to do this they got huge push back from the
       | AI boyfriend people lol
        
         | cactusplant7374 wrote:
         | I wonder if they have run the analytics on how many users are
         | doing that. I would love to see that number.
        
           | NitpickLawyer wrote:
           | > only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT-4o each day.
           | 
           | If the 800MAU still holds, that's 800k people.
        
         | simonw wrote:
         | /r/MyBoyfriendIsAI https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ is
         | a _whole thing_. It 's not a joke subreddit.
        
           | bananaflag wrote:
           | And it's a pity that this highly prevalent phenomenon (to
           | exaggerate a bit, probably the way tech in general will
           | become the most influential in the next couple years) is
           | barely mentioned on HN.
        
             | pxc wrote:
             | I dunno. Tbf that subreddit has a combination of
             | - a large number of incredibly fragile users       -
             | extremely "protective" mods       - a regular stream of
             | drive-by posts that regulars there see as derogatory or
             | insulting       - a fair amount of internal diversity and
             | disagreement
             | 
             | I think discussion on forums larger than it, like HN or
             | popular subreddits, is likely to drive traffic that will
             | ultimately fuel a backfiring effect for the members. It's
             | inevitable, and it's already happening, but I'm not sure it
             | needs to increase.
             | 
             | I do think the phenomenon is a matter of legitimate public
             | concern, but idk how that can best be addressed. Maybe
             | high-quality, long form journalism? But probably not just
             | cross-posting the sub in larger fora.
        
             | nomel wrote:
             | > highly prevalent phenomenon
             | 
             | Any numbers/reference behind this?
             | 
             | ChatGPT has ~300 million active users a day. A 0.02%
             | (delusion disorder prevalence) would be 60k people.
        
               | bananaflag wrote:
               | I'm talking about romance, not delusion. Of course, you
               | can consider AI romance a delusion, but it's not included
               | in that percentage you mentioned.
        
               | nomel wrote:
               | The percentage I mentioned was an example of how a very
               | small prevalence can result in a reasonable number of
               | people, like enough to fill a subreddit, because ChatGPT
               | has a user count that exceeds all but 3 countries of the
               | world.
               | 
               | Again, do you have anything behind this "highly prevalent
               | phenomenon" claim?
        
           | pxc wrote:
           | The range of attitudes in there is interesting. There are a
           | lot of people who take a fairly sensible "this is interactive
           | fiction" kind of attitude, and there are others who bristle
           | at any claim or reminder that these relationships are
           | fictitious. There are even people with human partners who
           | have "married" one or more AIs.
        
             | unethical_ban wrote:
             | IIRC you'll get modded or banned for being critical of the
             | use case. Which is their "right", but it's freaking weird.
        
             | chasd00 wrote:
             | do you think they know they're just one context reset away
             | from the llm not recognizing them at all and being treated
             | like a stranger off the street? For someone mentally ill
             | and somehow emotionally attached to the context it would
             | be... jarring to say the least.
        
           | ragazzina wrote:
           | >It's not a joke subreddit.
           | 
           | Spend a day on Reddit and you'll quickly realize many
           | subreddits are just filled with lies.
        
             | unethical_ban wrote:
             | Any sub that is based on storytelling or reposting memes,
             | videos etc. are karma farms and lies.
             | 
             | Most subs that are based on politics or current events are
             | at best biased, at worst completely astroturf.
             | 
             | The only subs that I think still have mostly legit users
             | are municipal subs (which still get targeted by bots when
             | anything political comes up) and hobby subs where people
             | show their works or discuss things.
        
         | moomoo11 wrote:
         | Those people need to be uploaded into the Matrix and the data
         | servers sent far, deep into space.
        
         | leumon wrote:
         | well now you can unlock an 18+ version for sexual role-play so
         | i guess its the other way around
        
       | ora-600 wrote:
       | I can't see o3 in my model selector as well?
       | 
       | RIP
        
       | MagicMoonlight wrote:
       | That's really going to upset the crazies.
       | 
       | Despite 4o being one of the worst models on the market, they
       | loved it. Probably because it was the most insane and delusional.
       | You could get it to talk about really fucked up shit. It would
       | happily tell you that you are the messiah.
        
         | BeetleB wrote:
         | It was the first model I used that was half decent at coding.
         | Everyone remembers their gateway drug.
        
         | giancarlostoro wrote:
         | I wonder if it will still be up on Azure? How much you think I
         | can make if I setup 4o under a domain like yourgirlfriendis.ai
         | or w/e
         | 
         | Note: I wouldnt actually, I find it terrible to prey on people.
        
         | lifetimerubyist wrote:
         | ChatGPT Made Me Delusional:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjgNgJms3Q
         | 
         | Should be essential watching for anyone that uses these things.
        
         | patrickmcnamara wrote:
         | The reaction to its original removal on Instagram Reels,
         | r/ChatGPT, etc., was genuinely so weird and creepy. I didn't
         | realise before this how many people had genuine parasocial (?)
         | relationships with these LLMs.
        
         | pks016 wrote:
         | I was mostly using 4o for academic searches and planning. It
         | was the best model for me. Based on the context I was giving
         | and questions I was asking, 4o was the most the consistent
         | model.
         | 
         | It used to get things wrong for sure but it was predictable.
         | Also I liked the tone like everyone else. I stopped using
         | ChatGPT after they removed 4o. Recently, I have started using
         | the newer GPT-5 models (got free one month). Better than before
         | but not quite. Acts way over smart haha
        
       | simonw wrote:
       | > [...] the vast majority of usage has shifted to GPT-5.2, with
       | only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT-4o each day.
        
         | SecretDreams wrote:
         | What's the default model when a random user goes to use the
         | chatgpt website or app?
        
           | mrec wrote:
           | 5.2 in the website. You can see what was used for a specific
           | response by hovering over the refresh icon at the end.
        
           | AlexeyBrin wrote:
           | On the paid version it is 5.2.
        
           | bananaflag wrote:
           | 5.2.
           | 
           | You can go to chatgpt.com and ask "what model are you" (it
           | doesn't hallucinate on this).
        
             | SecretDreams wrote:
             | Probably a relationship between what's the default and what
             | model is being used the most. It is more about what OAI
             | sets than what users care about. Flip side is "good enough
             | is good enough" for most users.
        
             | johndough wrote:
             | > (it doesn't hallucinate on this)
             | 
             | But how do we know that you did not hallucinate the claim
             | that ChatGPT does not hallucinate its version number?
             | 
             | We could try to exfiltrate the system prompt which probably
             | contains the model name, but all extraction attempts could
             | of course be hallucinations as well.
             | 
             | (I think there was an interview where Sam Altman or someone
             | else at OpenAI where it was mentioned that they hardcoded
             | the model name in the prompt because people did not
             | understand that models don't work like that, so they made
             | it work. I might be hallucinating though.)
        
               | razodactyl wrote:
               | Confabulating* If you were hallucinating we would be more
               | amused :)
        
         | lifetimerubyist wrote:
         | won't somebody think of the goonettes?!
        
           | deciduously wrote:
           | This was not a word I was prepared to learn about today.
        
             | navigate8310 wrote:
             | https://old.reddit.com/r/myboyfriendisai/top?t=all
        
         | fpgaminer wrote:
         | Well yeah, because 5.2 is the default and there's no way to
         | change the default. So every time you open up a new chat you
         | either use 5.2 or go out of your way to select something else.
         | 
         | (I'm particularly annoyed by this UI choice because I always
         | have to switch back to 5.1)
        
           | arrowsmith wrote:
           | What about 5.1 do you prefer over 5.2?
        
             | fpgaminer wrote:
             | As far as I can tell 5.2 is the stronger model on paper,
             | but it's been optimized to think less and do less web
             | searches. I daily drive Thinking variants, not Auto or
             | Instant, and usually want the _right_ answer even if it
             | takes a minute. 5.1 does a very good job of defensively web
             | searching, which avoids almost all of its hallucinations
             | and keeps docs/APIs/UIs/etc up-to-date. 5.2 will instead
             | often not think at all, even in Thinking mode. I've gotten
             | several completely wrong, hallucinated answers since 5.2
             | came out, whereas maybe a handful from 5.1. (Even with me
             | using 5.2 far less!)
             | 
             | The same seems to persist in Codex CLI, where again 5.2
             | doesn't spend as much time thinking so its solutions never
             | come out as nicely as 5.1's.
             | 
             | That said, 5.1 is obviously slower for these reasons. I'm
             | fine with that trade off. Others might have lighter
             | workloads and thus benefit more from 5.2's speed.
        
         | adamiscool8 wrote:
         | 0.1% of users is not necessarily 0.1% of conversations...
        
       | jedbrooke wrote:
       | I still don't know how openAI thought it was a good idea to have
       | a model named "4o" AND a model named "o4", unless the goal was
       | intentional confusion
        
         | afro88 wrote:
         | Considering how many people say ChatGTP too
        
           | uh_uh wrote:
           | The other day I heard ChatGBD.
        
             | ben_w wrote:
             | Have you heard Boris Johnson's version?
             | 
             | https://m.youtube.com/shorts/JAVMEs5CG1Y
        
               | lichenwarp wrote:
               | I'm gonna watch this again about 5 times because it's so
               | fucking funny
        
               | mandeepj wrote:
               | The comments have their own overdose of deliciousness.
               | That click to look at them, never disappoints :-)
        
               | razodactyl wrote:
               | This one was great hahaha
        
             | tweakimp wrote:
             | MY favourite is ChatJippiddy
        
               | Imustaskforhelp wrote:
               | Do you watch primagen by instance?
               | 
               | A fellow Primagen viewer spotted.
        
               | lifetimerubyist wrote:
               | Or just "gippity" for short.
        
               | tibbydudeza wrote:
               | The Primeagen :).
        
             | bee_rider wrote:
             | ChagGDP because a country worth of money was spent to train
             | it.
        
           | Insanity wrote:
           | I've been hearing that consistently from a friend, I gave up
           | on correcting them because "ChatGPT" just wouldn't stick
        
           | throw-the-towel wrote:
           | I still don't like how French people don't call it "chat j'ai
           | pete".
        
           | adzm wrote:
           | GTP goes forward from the middle, teeth, then lips, as
           | compared to GPT which goes middle, lips, teeth; you'll see
           | this pattern happen with a lot of words in linguistic history
        
         | cryptoz wrote:
         | Even more than that, I've seen a lot of people confuse 4 and
         | 4o, probably because 4o sounds like a shorthand for 4.0 which
         | would be the same thing as 4.
        
           | mimischi wrote:
           | Come to think of it, maybe they had a play on 4o being "40",
           | and o4-mini being "04", and having to append the "mini" to
           | bring home the message of 04<40
        
         | Someone1234 wrote:
         | Even ChatGPT (and certainly Google) confuses the names.
         | 
         | I'm sure there is some internal/academic reason for them, but
         | from an outside observer simply horrible.
        
           | jsheard wrote:
           | Wasn't "ChatGPT" itself only supposed to be a
           | research/academic name, until it accidentally broke
           | containment and they ended up having to roll with it? The
           | naming was cursed from the start.
        
           | nipponese wrote:
           | When picking a fight with product marketing, just don't.
        
           | razodactyl wrote:
           | How many times have you noticed people confusing the name
           | itself: ChatGBT, ChatGTP etc.
           | 
           | We're the technical crowd cursed and blinded by knowledge.
        
         | recursive wrote:
         | "4o" was bad to begin with, as "four-oh" is a common
         | verbalization of "4.0".
        
         | pdntspa wrote:
         | It's almost always marketing and some stupid idea someone there
         | had. I don't know why non-technical people try and claim so
         | much ownership over versioning. You nearly always end up with
         | these ridiculous outcomes.
         | 
         | "I know! Let's restart the version numbering for no good
         | reason!" becomes DOOM (2016), Mortal Kombat 1 (2025),
         | Battlefield 1 (2016), Xbox One (not to be confused with the
         | original Xbox 1)
         | 
         | As another example, look at how much of a trainwreck USB 3 has
         | become
         | 
         | Or how Nvidia restarted Geforce card numbering
        
           | recursive wrote:
           | Xbox should be in the hall of fame for terrible names.
           | 
           | There's also Xbox One X, which is not in the X series. Did I
           | say that right? Playstation got the version numbers right. I
           | couldn't make names as incomprehensible as Xbox if I tried.
        
       | femiagbabiaka wrote:
       | There will be a lot of mentally unwell people unhappy with this,
       | but this is a huge net positive decision, thank goodness.
        
       | haunter wrote:
       | Which one is the AI boyfriend model? Tumblr, Twitter, and reddit
       | will go crazy
        
         | goldenarm wrote:
         | 4o is the most popular one for that
        
       | NewsaHackO wrote:
       | >We brought GPT-4o back after hearing clear feedback from a
       | subset of Plus and Pro users, who told us they needed more time
       | to transition key use cases, like creative ideation, and that
       | they preferred GPT-4o's conversational style and warmth.
       | 
       | This does verify the idea that OpenAI does not make model
       | sycophantic due to attempted subversion by buttering up users so
       | that that they use the product more, its because people actually
       | _want_ AI to talk to them like that. To me, that 's insane, but
       | they have to play the market I guess
        
         | Scene_Cast2 wrote:
         | As someone who's worked with population data, I found that
         | there is an enormous rift between reported opinion (and HN and
         | reddit opinion) vs revealed (through experimentation)
         | population preferences.
        
           | toss1 wrote:
           | Sounds both true and interesting. Any particularly wild
           | and/or illuminating examples of which you can share more
           | detail?
        
             | hnuser123456 wrote:
             | The "my boyfriend is AI" subreddit.
             | 
             | A lot of people are lonely and talking to these things like
             | a significant other. They value roleplay instruction
             | following that creates "immersion." They tell it to be dark
             | and mysterious and call itself a pet name. GPT-4o was
             | apparently their favorite because it was very "steerable."
             | Then it broke the news that people were doing this, some of
             | them falling off the deep end with it, so they had to tone
             | back the steerability a bit with 5, and these users seem to
             | say 5 breaks immersion with more safeguards.
        
             | jaggederest wrote:
             | My favorite somewhat off topic example of this is some
             | qualitative research I was building the software for a long
             | time ago.
             | 
             | The difference between the responses and the pictures was
             | illuminating, especially in one study in particular - you'd
             | ask people "how do you store your lunch meat" and they say
             | "in the fridge, in the crisper drawer, in a ziploc bag",
             | and when you asked them to take a picture of it, it was
             | just ripped open and tossed in anywhere.
             | 
             | This apparently horrified the lunch meat people ("But it'll
             | get all crusty and dried out!", to paraphrase), which that
             | study and ones like it are the reason lunch meat comes with
             | disposable containers now, or is resealable, instead of
             | just in a tear-to-open packet. Every time I go grocery
             | shopping it's an interesting experience knowing that
             | _specific thing_ is in a small way a result of some of the
             | work I did a long time ago.
        
           | cm2012 wrote:
           | This is why I work in direct performance advertising. Our
           | work reveals the truth!
        
             | make3 wrote:
             | Your work exploits people's addictive propensity and
             | behaviours, and gives corporations incentives and tools to
             | build on that.
             | 
             | Insane spin you're putting on it. At best, you're a cog in
             | one of the worst recent evolutions of capitalism.
        
               | marrone12 wrote:
               | Advertising is not a recent evolution of capitalism, it's
               | a foundational piece of it. Whatever you do as a job
               | would not exist if there was no one marketing it. This
               | hostility seems insane.
        
               | 12345ieee wrote:
               | The early theorists of capitalism didn't imagine that
               | advanced psychology (that didn't even exist back then)
               | would be used to convince people to buy $product.
               | 
               | Messages of that sophistication are always dangerous, and
               | modern advertising is the most widespread example of it.
               | 
               | The hostility is more than justified, I can only hope the
               | whole industry is regulated downwards, even if whatever
               | company I work for sells less.
        
               | losteric wrote:
               | Advertising always seems like a prisoner's dilemma. If no
               | one advertised, people would still buy things.
        
               | q3k wrote:
               | Not having my job would be a tiny price to pay compared
               | to the benefit of living in a world with no
               | advertisements.
        
               | DetroitThrow wrote:
               | >it's a foundational piece of it
               | 
               | No it's not
        
               | cm2012 wrote:
               | Exploitative ads are a small minority. I also think
               | gambling advertising should be banned.
        
           | make3 wrote:
           | Exactly, that sounds to me like a TikTok vs NPR/books thing,
           | people tell everyone what they read, then go spend 11h
           | watching TikToks until 2am.
        
         | 9x39 wrote:
         | I thought this was almost due to the AI personality splinter
         | groups (trying to be charitable) like /myboyfriendisai and
         | wrapper apps who vocally let them know they used those models
         | the last time they sunset them.
        
         | cornonthecobra wrote:
         | Put on a good show, offer something novel, and people will
         | gleefully march right off a cliff while admiring their shiny
         | new purchase.
        
         | PlatoIsADisease wrote:
         | Your absolutely right. You're not imagining it. Here is the
         | quiet truth:
         | 
         | You're not imagining it, and honestly? You're not broken for
         | feeling this--its perfectly natural as a human to have this
         | sentiment.
        
         | cj wrote:
         | I was one of those pesky users who complained when o3 suddenly
         | was unavailable.
         | 
         | When 5.2 was first launched, o3 did a notably better job at a
         | lot of analytical prompts (e.g. "Based on the attached weight
         | log and data from my calorie tracking app, please calculate my
         | TDEE using at least 3 different methodologies").
         | 
         | o3 frequently used tables to present information, which I liked
         | a lot. 5.2 rarely does this - it prefers to lay out information
         | in paragraphs / blog post style.
         | 
         | I'm not sure if o3 responses were better, or if it was just the
         | format of the reply that I liked more.
         | 
         | If it's just a matter of how people prefer to be presented
         | their information, that should be something LLMs are equipped
         | to adapt to at a user-by-user level based on preferences.
        
         | pdntspa wrote:
         | I thought it was based on the user thumbs-up and thumbs-down
         | reactions, it evolving the way that it does makes it pretty
         | obvious that users want their asses licked
        
         | josephg wrote:
         | They have added settings for this now - you can dial up and
         | down how "warm" and "enthusiastic" you want the models to be. I
         | haven't done back to back tests to see how much this affects
         | sycophancy, but adding the option as a user preference feels
         | like the right choice.
         | 
         | If anyone is wondering, the setting for this is called
         | Personalisation in user settings.
        
         | SeanAnderson wrote:
         | This doesn't come as too much of a surprise to me. Feels like
         | it mirrors some of the reasons why toxic positivity occurs in
         | the workplace.
        
       | GaggiX wrote:
       | If people want an AI as a boyfriend at least they should use one
       | that is open source.
       | 
       | If you disagree on something you can also train a lora.
        
         | jaggederest wrote:
         | I think this kind of thing is a pretty strong argument for the
         | entire open source model ecosystem, not just open weights but
         | open data and the whole gamut.
        
       | fpgaminer wrote:
       | I wish they would keep 4.1 around for a bit longer. One of the
       | downsides of the current reasoning based training regimens is a
       | significant decrease in creativity. And chat trained AIs were
       | already quite "meh" at creative writing to begin with. 4.1 was
       | the last of its breed.
       | 
       | So we'll have to wait until "creativity" is solved.
       | 
       | Side note: I've been wondering lately about a way to bring
       | creativity back to these thinking models. For creative writing
       | tasks you could add the original, pretrained model as a tool
       | call. So the thinking model could ask for its completions and/or
       | query it and get back N variations. The pretrained model's
       | completions will be much more creative and wild, though often
       | incoherent (think back to the GPT-3 days). The thinking model can
       | then review these and use them to synthesize a coherent, useful
       | result. Essentially giving us the best of both worlds. All the
       | benefits of a thinking model, while still giving it access to
       | "contained" creativity.
        
         | MillionOClock wrote:
         | My theory, based on what I would see with non-thinking models,
         | is that as soon as you start detailing something too much (ie:
         | not just "speak in the style of X" but more like "speak in the
         | style of X with [a list of adjectives detailing the style of
         | X]" they would loose creativity, would not fit the style very
         | well anymore etc. I don't know how things have evolved with new
         | training techniques etc. but I suspected that overthinking
         | their tasks by detailing too much what they have to do can
         | lower quality in some models for creative tasks.
        
         | perardi wrote:
         | Have you tried the relatively recent Personalities feature? I
         | wonder if that makes a difference.
         | 
         | (I have no idea. LLMs are infinite code monkeys on infinite
         | typewriters for me, with occasional "how do I evolve this
         | Pokemon' utility. But worth a shot.)
        
       | tom1337 wrote:
       | Would be cool if they'd release the weights for these models so
       | users could now use them locally.
        
         | WorldPeas wrote:
         | They'd only do that if they were some kind of open ai company
         | /s
        
           | amelius wrote:
           | lol :)
        
           | tgtweak wrote:
           | gpt-oss is pretty great tbh - one of the better all-around
           | local models for knowledge and grounding.
        
         | IhateAI wrote:
         | Why would someone want to spend half a million dollars on GPUs
         | and components (if not more) to run one year old models that
         | genuinely aren't useful? You can't self host trillion parameter
         | models unless you own a datacenter lol (or want to just light
         | money on fire).
        
           | tom1337 wrote:
           | Are the mini / omni models really trillion parameter models?
        
             | IhateAI wrote:
             | I don't think so, but you're still looking at a giant
             | investment that can't really be justified for their
             | capability.
        
       | jostmey wrote:
       | I noticed how ChatGPT got progressively worse at helping me with
       | my research. I gave up on ChatGPT 5 and just switched Grok and
       | Gemini. I couldn't be happier that I switched.
        
         | amelius wrote:
         | Why not Claude?
        
           | jostmey wrote:
           | I personally find Claude the best at coding, but it's
           | usefulness doesn't seem to extend to scientific research and
           | writing
        
           | esperent wrote:
           | The limits on the $20 plan are too low compared to Gemini and
           | ChatGPT. They're too low to do any serious work at all.
        
           | 650REDHAIR wrote:
           | Because I'm sick of paying $20 for an hour of claude before
           | it throttles me.
        
         | azan_ wrote:
         | It's amazing how different are the experiences different people
         | have. To me every new version of chatgpt was an improvement and
         | gemini is borderline unusable.
        
           | tgtweak wrote:
           | Very curious for what use cases you're finding gemini
           | unusable.
        
             | azan_ wrote:
             | Scientific research and proof-reading. Gemini is the
             | laziest LLM I've used. Frequently he will lie that he
             | searched for something and just make stuff up, basically
             | never happens to me when I'm using gpt5.2.
        
             | double0jimb0 wrote:
             | In my experience with Gemini, I find it incapable of not
             | hallucinating.
        
       | sundarurfriend wrote:
       | ChatGPT 5.2 has been a good motivator for me to try out other
       | LLMs because of how bad it is. Both 5.1 and 5.2 have been
       | downgrades in terms of instruction following and accuracy, but
       | 5.2 especially so. The upside is that that's had me using Claude
       | much more, and I like a lot of things about it, both in terms of
       | UI and the answers. It's also gotten me more serious about
       | running local models. So, thank you OpenAI, for forcing me to
       | broaden my horizons!
        
         | PlatoIsADisease wrote:
         | nah bruh you are just imagining it.
         | 
         | Its just as good as ever /s
        
         | orphea wrote:
         | Have you had a chance to compare with Gemini 3?
        
       | leumon wrote:
       | > We're continuing to make progress toward a version of ChatGPT
       | designed for adults over 18, grounded in the principle of
       | treating adults like adults, and expanding user choice and
       | freedom within appropriate safeguards. To support this, we've
       | rolled out age prediction for users under 18 in most markets.
       | https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12652064-age-prediction-...
       | 
       | interesting
        
         | kace91 wrote:
         | What's the goal there? Sexting?
         | 
         | I'm guessing age is needed to serve certain ads and the like,
         | but what's the value for customers?
        
           | jandrese wrote:
           | If you don't think the potential market for AI sexbots is
           | enormous you have not paid attention to humanity.
        
           | leumon wrote:
           | according to the age-prediction page, the changes are:
           | 
           | > If [..] you are under 18, ChatGPT turns on extra safety
           | settings. [...] Some topics are handled more carefully to
           | help reduce sensitive content, such as:
           | 
           | - Graphic violence or gore
           | 
           | - Viral challenges that could push risky or harmful behavior
           | 
           | - Sexual, romantic, or violent role play
           | 
           | - Content that promotes extreme beauty standards, unhealthy
           | dieting, or body shaming
        
           | jacquesm wrote:
           | Porn has driven just about every bit of progress on the
           | internet, I don't see why AI would be the exception to that
           | rule.
        
           | elevation wrote:
           | Even when you're making PG content, the general propriety
           | limits of AI can hinder creative work.
           | 
           | The "Easter Bunny" has always seemed creepy to me, so I
           | started writing a silly song in which the bunny is suspected
           | of eating children. I had too many verses written down and
           | wanted to condense the lyrics, but found LLMs telling me "I
           | cannot help promote violence towards children." Production
           | LLM services would not help me revise this literal parody.
           | 
           | Another day I was writing a romantic poem. It was abstract
           | and colorful, far from a filthy limerick. But when I asked
           | LLMs for help encoding a particular idea sequence into a
           | verse, the models refused (except for grok, which didn't give
           | very good writing advice anyway.)
        
           | robotnikman wrote:
           | There is a subreddit called /r/myboyfriendisAI, you can look
           | through it and see for yourself.
        
         | chilmers wrote:
         | Sexual and intimate chat with LLMs will be a huge market for
         | whoever corners it. They'd be crazy to leave that money on the
         | table.
        
           | thayne wrote:
           | If your goal is to make money, sure. If your goal is to make
           | AI safe, not so much.
        
           | koakuma-chan wrote:
           | It will be an even bigger market when robotics are
           | sufficiently advanced.
        
           | palmotea wrote:
           | That's why laws against drugs are so terrible, it forces law-
           | abiding businesses to leave money on the table. Repeal the
           | laws and I'm sure there will be tons of startups to profit
           | off of drug addiction.
        
             | georgemcbay wrote:
             | > Repeal the laws and I'm sure there will be tons of
             | startups to profit off of drug addiction.
             | 
             | Worked for gambling.
             | 
             | (Not saying this as a message of support. I think
             | legalizing/normalizing easy app-based gambling was a huge
             | mistake and is going to have an increasingly disastrous
             | social impact).
        
             | chilmers wrote:
             | There are many companies making money off alcohol
             | addiction, video game addiction, porn addiction, food
             | addiction, etc. Should we outlaw all these things? Should
             | we regulate them and try to make them safe? If we can do
             | that for them, can't we do it for AI sex chat?
        
         | thayne wrote:
         | It says what to do if you are over 18, but thinks you are under
         | 18. But what if it identifies someone under 18 as being older?
         | 
         | And what if you are over 18, but don't want to be exposed to
         | that "adult" content?
         | 
         | > Viral challenges that could push risky or harmful behavior
         | 
         | And
         | 
         | > Content that promotes extreme beauty standards, unhealthy
         | dieting, or body shaming
         | 
         | Seem dangerous regardless of age.
        
         | GoatInGrey wrote:
         | Pornographic use has long been the "break glass in case of
         | emergency" for the LLM labs when it comes to finances.
         | 
         | My personal opinion is that while smut won't hurt anyone in of
         | itself, _LLM smut_ will have weird and generally negative
         | consequences. As it will be crafted specifically for you on top
         | of the intermittent reinforcement component of LLM generation.
        
         | chasd00 wrote:
         | eh there's an old saying that goes "no Internet technology can
         | be considered a success until it has been adopted by (or in
         | this case integrated with) the porn industry".
        
         | SeanAnderson wrote:
         | hate to say it but I'm pretty excited to try out those
         | features.
        
       | europeanNyan wrote:
       | After they pushed the limits on the Thinking models to 3000 per
       | week, I haven't touched anything else. I am really satisfied with
       | their performance and the 200k context windows is quite nice.
       | 
       | I've been using Gemini exclusively for the 1 million token
       | context window, but went back to ChatGPT after the raise of the
       | limits and created a Project system for myself which allows me to
       | have much better organization with Projects + only Thinking chats
       | (big context) + project-only memory.
       | 
       | Also, it seems like Gemini is really averse to googling (which is
       | ironic by itself) and ChatGPT, at least in the Thinking modes
       | loves to look up current and correct info. If I ask something a
       | bit more involved in Extended Thinking mode, it will think for
       | several minutes and look up more than 100 sources. It's really
       | good, practically a Deep Research inside of a normal chat.
        
         | tgtweak wrote:
         | I find Gemini does the most searching (and the quickest...
         | regularly pulls 70+ search results on a query in a matter of
         | seconds - likely due to googlebot's cache of pretty much every
         | page). Chatgpt seems to only search if you have it in
         | thinking/research mode now.
        
         | toxic72 wrote:
         | I REALLY struggle with Gemini 3 Pro refusing to perform web
         | searches / getting combative with the current date. Ironically
         | their flash model seems much more likely to opt for web search
         | for info validation.
         | 
         | Not sure if others have seen this...
         | 
         | I could attribute it to:
         | 
         | 1. It's known quantity with the pro models (I recall that the
         | pro/thinking models from most providers were not immediately
         | equipped with web search tools when they were released
         | originally)
         | 
         | 2. Google wants you to pay more for grounding via their API
         | offerings vs. including it out of the box
        
       | jackblemming wrote:
       | They should open source GPT-4o.
        
       | ClassAndBurn wrote:
       | They will have to update the openai. Com footer I guess
       | 
       | Latest Advancements
       | 
       | GPT-5
       | 
       | OpenAI o3
       | 
       | OpenAI o4-mini
       | 
       | GPT-4o
       | 
       | GPT-4o mini
       | 
       | Sora
        
       | tgtweak wrote:
       | 5.2 is back to being a sycophantic hallucinating mess for most
       | use cases - I've anecdotally caught it out on many of the
       | sessions I've had where it apologizes "You're absolutely right...
       | that used to be the case but as of the latest version as you
       | pointed out, it no longer is." when it never existed in the first
       | place. It's just not good.
       | 
       | On the other hand - 5.0-nano has been great for fast (and cheap)
       | quick requests and there doesn't seem to be a viable alternative
       | today if they're sunsetting 5.0 models.
       | 
       | I really don't know how they're measuring improvements in the
       | model since things seem to have been getting progressively worse
       | with each release since 4o/o4 - Gemini and Opus still show the
       | occasional hallucination or lack of grounding but both readily
       | spend time fact-checking/searching before making an educated
       | guess.
       | 
       | I've had chatgpt blatantly lie to me and say there are several
       | community posts and reddit threads about an issue then after
       | failing to find that, asked it where it found those and it flat
       | out said "oh yeah it looks like those don't exist"
        
         | 650REDHAIR wrote:
         | That's been my experience and has lead to hours of wasted time.
         | It's faster for me to read through docs and watch YouTube.
         | 
         | Even if I submit the documentation or reference links they are
         | completely ignored.
        
       | perardi wrote:
       | OK, everyone is (rightly) bringing up that relatively small but
       | really glaringly prominent AI boyfriend subreddit.
       | 
       | But I think a lot more people are using LLMs for relationship
       | surrogates than that (pretty bonkers) subreddit would suggest.
       | Character AI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character.ai) seems
       | quite popular, as do the weird fake friend things in Meta
       | products, and Grok's various personality mode and very creepy AI
       | girlfriends.
       | 
       | I find this utterly bizarre. LLMs are peer coders in a box for
       | me. I care about Claude Code, and that's about it. But I realize
       | I am probably in the vast minority.
        
         | razodactyl wrote:
         | We're very echo-chambered here. That graph OpenAI released had
         | coding at 4% or something.
        
       | siquick wrote:
       | 2 weeks notice to migrate to a different style of model ("normal"
       | 4.1-mini to reasoning 5.1) is bad form.
        
       | htrp wrote:
       | Sora + OpenAI voice Cloning + AdultGPT = Virtual
       | Girlfriend/Boyfriend
       | 
       | (Upgrade for only 1999 per month)
        
       | thedudeabides5 wrote:
       | will this nuke my old convos?
       | 
       | opus 4.5 is better at gpt on everything except code execution
       | (but with pro you get a lot of claude code usage) and if they
       | nuke all my old convos I'll prob downgrade from pro to freee
        
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