The week was long for Openai. After the launch of the new GPT-5 artificial intelligence model, the company faced many criticism, which forced it to go back to certain decisions. Among them, the simplification of the use of chatgpt. Specifically, the company has put several of its retired models, imposing GPT-5 by default on all users to make their offer less complicated. The latter no longer had to choose the model they had to talk, this election returned to the request.
Operai not only ended up reintroducing his model selector, but also offers three new options. “Now you can choose between ‘Automatic’, ‘Fast’ and ‘Reflection’ for GPT-5. Most users will favor automatic mode, but this additional control will be useful for some,” said his boss, Sam Altman, on X on the night of August 12.
New options
However, only paid subscribers (Chatgpt Plus, Chatgpt Pro …) have access to these three options. The first, “automatic”, allows chatgpt “to decide how long to reflect.” The second, “fast”, provides “instant responses.” Finally, with “reflection”, Chatgpt “reflects more time to give better answers.”
In his message, Sam Altman also returned to GPT-4O, a model that Optaai ended up resurrecting after criticism of many users. “4th is back predetermined in the model selector for all paid users. If we eliminate it someday, we will inform you enough anticipation,” he said.
The company has learned from its mistakes. She had taken advantage of the launch of GPT-5 to deactivate several of her AI models during the night without prior notice of the users, awakening their anger. One of them even ended its chatgpt subscription due to this change.
Better customization
In addition to GPT-4O, paid subscribers can also use old models such as O3. Finally, Sam Altman said that Optai was working on “an update of the personality of GPT-5, which should be warmer than the current personality, without being so annoying (for most users) than that of GPT-4o.” He referred to the period in which many of them complained about the adulation of the latter.
This, after several of them pointed out the lack of heat of GPT-5 compared to GPT-4O. This update will be added to the personalities that Optai has offered since the launch of its new model and that allow Chatgpt to be cynical, attentive or geek.
Source: BFM TV
