As with many AI enthusiasts, ChatGPT's fans have developed intense attachments to the "personalities" exhibited by each of the company's large language models (LLMs) — and as such, many were in a state of panic when the decision to switch between models like GPT-4o, 4.5, and others was abruptly taken away. As The Verge flags, OpenAI briefly kiboshed the model picker option from ChatGPT as part of the launch of GPT-5, its long-awaited new LLM, which essentially forced everyone to use the latest model whether they liked it or not. So unpopular was the decision to remove access to all previous […]