Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company would be reinstating its GPT-4o model, just over 24 hours after declaring that its newfangled GPT-5 would be accompanied by the "deprecating" of all previous models. The scale of the blowback from angry users was staggering. Those who had become accustomed to the "sycophantic" tone of GPT-4o, were taken aback by GPT-5's "cold" brashness and short answers, highlighting just how emotionally attached many of them became. Beyond reinstating older models to paying subscribers, OpenAI continued to bow to the pressure, tweeting on Friday that it would be "making GPT-5 […]