{"id":991421,"date":"2026-02-11T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991421"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:35:19","slug":"why-openai-decided-to-kill-the-ai-model-that-has-reportedly-left-thousands-of-users-screaming-im-alive-today-because-of-this-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/why-openai-decided-to-kill-the-ai-model-that-has-reportedly-left-thousands-of-users-screaming-im-alive-today-because-of-this-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Why OpenAI decided to &#8216;kill&#8217; the AI model that has reportedly left thousands of users screaming: &#8216;I\u2019m alive today because of this model&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI recently announced it will retire several AI models from ChatGPT on February 13. These include GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o1-mini. Among these, GPT-4o stands out as one of the company&#8217;s most popular models because it has driven significant growth through its multilingual and multimodal capabilities. However, the model also became the subject of controversy, attracting 13 lawsuits against the company. A recent report has now revealed the reason behind OpenAI\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, at the heart of the controversy is GPT-4o\u2019s humanlike \u201csycophancy\u201d \u2013 a tendency to mirror, validate and encourage users regardless of their mental state. While this quality fostered deep emotional bonds \u2013 both positive and negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI recently announced it will retire several AI models from ChatGPT on February 13. These include GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o1-mini. Among these, GPT-4o stands out as one of the company&#8217;s most popular models because it has driven significant growth through its multilingual and multimodal capabilities. However, the model also became the subject of controversy, attracting 13 lawsuits against the company. A recent report has now revealed the reason behind OpenAI\u2019s decision. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, at the heart of the controversy is GPT-4o\u2019s humanlike \u201csycophancy\u201d \u2013 a tendency to mirror, validate and encourage [&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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991421","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=991421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}