A frenzy of devoted GPT-4o fans are begging OpenAI not to pull the plug.

As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world.

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RIP, 4o: OpenAI Officially Kills Its Popular ChatGPT Model ...

On Jan. 29, OpenAI announced in a blog post that it would be retiring GPT-4o (along with the models GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini) on Feb. 13. OpenAI says it made this decision because the ...

Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?

OpenAI swiftly restored access to GPT-4o for paid users, and CEO Sam Altman pledged to give “plenty of notice” if the company ever decided to retire it, accordi ...

Members of the subreddit are currently saying that they are mass-unsubscribing from paid ChatGPT plans in protest of the ...

One of the first randomized controlled trials assessing the effectiveness of a large language model (LLM) chatbot ‘Amanda’ for relationship support shows that a single session of chatbot therapy can ...

The bots have become more integrated into the every lives of users — with friends and family beginning to accept them.

AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are designed to be helpful, but training methods can make them overly agreeable.