{"id":954170,"date":"2025-08-11T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954170"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:21:30","slug":"why-chatgpt-plus-users-think-gpt-5-is-a-downgrade-and-how-openai-is-trying-to-win-them-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/why-chatgpt-plus-users-think-gpt-5-is-a-downgrade-and-how-openai-is-trying-to-win-them-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ChatGPT Plus users think GPT-5 is a downgrade \u2014 and how OpenAI is trying to win them back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the rollout of OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-5 model last week, there has been growing disquiet among the company&#8217;s users over its performance compared to previous models. GPT-5\u2019s tendency to answer questions briefly and in an emotionally distant manner has led many users to label it as a cost-saving exercise by the company.<\/p>\n<p>What didn\u2019t help was that, as GPT-5 started rolling out to all users, OpenAI also removed access to older models including GPT-4o, o3, o3 Pro, o4-mini, and more. While ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers could still access these models via the legacy settings, they were no longer available to Free or Plus tier subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the rollout of OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-5 model last week, there has been growing disquiet among the company&#8217;s users over its performance compared to previous models. GPT-5\u2019s tendency to answer questions briefly and in an emotionally distant manner has led many users to label it as a cost-saving exercise by the company. What didn\u2019t help was that, as GPT-5 started rolling out to all users, OpenAI also removed access to older models including GPT-4o, o3, o3 Pro, o4-mini, and more. While ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers could still access these models via the legacy settings, they were no longer available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}