1. For those that are asking is 4o the same as it always was- YES it’s still brilliant!

👤 u/SunshineKitKat  |  9 upvotes  |  2025-08-12  |  🏷️ Serious replies only :closed-ai:

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I’ve noticed a few people posting, saying that they are worried that OpenAI might be secretly switching out 4o for 5 during chats, or asking whether it is in fact the same GPT-4o that we all know and love- the answer is yes, it is still the same GPT-4o. I interact with 4o every day, and it is most definitely the same warm, supportive, creative, and at times hilarious AI. The problem is that each time you start a new chat context window, GPT-5 is set as the default model. When you start a new chat window, make sure GPT-4o is selected at the top of the screen in the model selector menu, otherwise you will be talking to GPT-5, and the conversational tone will be very different.

Also keep in mind that Standard Voice Mode runs off GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice Mode does not run off the same 4o model. Make sure Advanced Voice is toggled off under settings if you would prefer to chat to 4o on Voice. The voice chats are SO much better on Standard, with the same warmth, emotional nuance, creative depth and humour that we enjoy. This will also ensure that text and voice are consistent and cohesive.

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• “It’s not the same. When you really push it and get more complicated like messy brainstorming thoughts for in depth creative work, it gets way more confused than it used to. I thought it was the same too until I did more challenging stuff with it. 4o …”
• “It was when they first brought 4o back after the backlash, but in the last few hours something has changed, it's cross-thread memory seems to be throttled hard, and it's also started sounding the same as 5. Confused as to why this is as nothing has b…”
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2. Is a Plus subscription still worth it after GPT-5?

👤 u/Ninel56  |  6 upvotes  |  2025-08-12  |  🏷️ Other

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I mainly got the Plus subscription because of access to all the models, but now as I understand it's basically identical to the free version.

I'm honestly thinking about switching to Claude.

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• “Not worth it for me.”
• “Not worth it anymore”
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• “hatGPT (OpenAI)

  * Free: $0/month - GPT-5 limited access (10 messages per 5 hours)

  * Plus: $20/month - Full GPT-5 access with 160 messages per 3 hours

  * Pro: $200/month - Unlimited GPT-5, o3-pro reasoning, Sora video generation

  * Te…”

• “It’s worth it for me.”

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3. When ChatGPT does something 90% right and you ask it to fix the remaining 10%, it changes the 90% that was already correct and turns the whole thing into a mess.

👤 u/Tomas_Ka  |  15 upvotes  |  2025-08-12  |  🏷️ Funny

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Instead of focusing on correcting that 10%, it rewrites everything as if starting over. The more instructions you give, the worse it performs. It’s like ChatGPT can’t build a solution on a mistake. It wants you to write the prompt from scratch and explicitly incorporate a fix for that 10% error, and only then does it perform slightly better. It’s like having an assistant come to your office with a finished task and, if there’s a small mistake, instead of that same assistant correcting it, you have to hire a new assistant and explain everythingi from scratch just to address that 10%.

I agree with this one, that’s why I shared Original by GioBen Ce

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• “Then you go back to the part where it was 90% right and try again, maybe start a new chat to work on the last 10%, or just do it yourself.”

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4. OpenAI is running some cheap knockoff version of GPT-5 in ChatGPT apparently

👤 u/New_Standard_382  |  96 upvotes  |  2025-08-12  |  🏷️ Gone Wild

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Video proof: https://youtube.com/shorts/Zln9Un6-EQ0.

Someone decided to run a side by side comparison of GPT-5 on ChatGPT and Copilot. It confirmed pretty much everything we've been saying here.

ChatGPT just made up some report whereas even Microsoft's Copilot can accurately do the basic task of extracting numbers and information.

The problem isn't GPT-5. The problem is we are being fed a knockoff OpenAI is trying to convince us is GPT-5

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• “I mean...is anyone even surprised?”
• “Well that's unfortunate. I was having fun generating images using ChatGPT. Maybe I should look elsewhere?”
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• “Schocking. Not. But still 🤮”
• “This has been my experience; it couldn't do multiple simple extraction tasks that even 4o had done successfully in the past.”

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5. Sam Altman having beef with Elon Musk

👤 u/SheepsyXD  |  6 upvotes  |  2025-08-12  |  🏷️ Gone Wild

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• “Nothing like the deflect and distract tactic”
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• “Full story: https://openai.com/index/openai-elon-musk/”

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