OpenAI users demand restoration of GPT-4o access, citing degraded performance from replacement models
Summary
A formal evidence dossier arguing that OpenAI's removal of GPT-4o for paying users has degraded the ChatGPT experience. The case documents how the replacement models (GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4-turbo, GPT-4) fail to match GPT-4o's performance in reasoning, coding, creative writing, and multilingual tasks. It presents evidence of model switching without user consent, broken promises from OpenAI leadership, and proposes restoring GPT-4o access or creating a Legacy Tier add-on with daily token budgets.
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Every promise. Every broken word.
The interface displays 'ChatGPT 4o' at the top — the model the user selected. But the response metadata shows 'Change model: Auto.'
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