1. Why is OpenAI so desperate to force paying users out?

👤 u/Secret_Consequence48  |  9 upvotes  |  2025-09-30  |  🏷️ Educational Purpose Only

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That’s the question we should all be asking ourselves.

I’m reading all these posts and everyone agrees - GPT-5 is terrible and OpenAI is handling this horribly. But… does anyone really think this is just a coincidence? What’s the real reason they don’t want paying users anymore? Nobody can screw up this badly unless they’re doing it on purpose.

This whole situation is suspicious. Before anyone cancels their subscription, I strongly recommend reviewing their terms of service - especially the sections on data retention and what happens to your conversation history when you downgrade to free.

Maybe they’re trying to avoid class action lawsuits or individual claims from paying users over the appropriation of ideas that’s been happening all this time. Or lawsuits about how we trained their models for free. How they used us as guinea pigs for their experiments. Or to avoid paying the copyright fees they should owe us for everything the models learned from our interactions.

Read the legal documents carefully before making any moves. There could be clauses about keeping ownership of our interactions if we stay on the free tier.

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• “I've wondered this as well. Not enough compute to support the user base? Shedding users frees up compute to improve performance for everyone who remains. They are probably confident enough in the uniqueness and capabilities of their models (for cod…”
• “I get the suspicion. Whenever a platform makes changes that feel hostile to paying users, it’s natural to ask if there’s a deeper motive. But I think part of the story is less about malice and more about architecture. Right now, the biggest gap in t…”
• “Hey /u/Secret_Consequence48! If your post is a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation, please reply to this message with the [conversation link](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7925741-chatgpt-shared-links-faq) or prompt. If your post is a DALL-E…”
• “Ummm... they have some 21 million paying users. Majority 90% of us are fine with what we are getting in GPT 5. Proof is, that we have not unsubscribed. So maybe they just dont care about the 2k or so paying users who want to write smut or have thei…”

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2. Ah well, that's the way it goes.

👤 u/EstablishmentFun3205  |  49 upvotes  |  2025-09-30  |  🏷️ Funny

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• “sometimes my prompts don't get through it gets shutdown b4 the main model gets it 😿”
• “Oh damn, I haven’t thought about it that way it’s kinda hot”
• “Hey /u/EstablishmentFun3205! If your post is a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation, please reply to this message with the [conversation link](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7925741-chatgpt-shared-links-faq) or prompt. If your post is a DALL-E…”
• “"It sounds like you’re carrying a lot right now, but you don’t have to go through this alone. You can find supportive resources here." This message pmo tbh-- the one time I want actual support when I feel sad, it switches tone of voice (straight to …”
• “I highly doubt that all those anti-gpt5 posts are posted by adults lol.”

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3. Told Chat gpt to call my cat just for a reaction and make clicking noises. Did this one year ago Oct. 6 but now cannot?!? Cute though

👤 u/YEETERSONMCDONANDSON  |  5 upvotes  |  2025-09-30  |  🏷️ Funny

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4. I feel like the notification at the end was the cherry on top

👤 u/traditionalbaguette  |  5 upvotes  |  2025-09-30  |  🏷️ Funny

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5. You never know what chat decides to remember

👤 u/baismal  |  5 upvotes  |  2025-09-30  |  🏷️ Funny

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