{"id":992381,"date":"2026-02-16T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992381"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:31:15","slug":"openai-accused-of-betrayal-sent-chatgpt-cancellation-warnings-after-gpt-4o-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/openai-accused-of-betrayal-sent-chatgpt-cancellation-warnings-after-gpt-4o-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI accused of \u2018betrayal&#8217;, sent ChatGPT cancellation warnings after GPT-4o shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a familiar turn of events for OpenAI, the San Francisco based AI startup is facing a barrage of criticism from its users after the company shut down its legacy AI models, primarily GPT-4o. Now, this is not the first time that OpenAI has cut access to GPT-4o, the popular AI model which became controversial due to its sycophantic responses. In fact, free users of the service lost access to GPT-4o as soon as GPT-5 arrived in August last year. However, paid users continued to have access to the chatbot until Saturday when OpenAI finally pulled the plug and shut down the popular AI model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a familiar turn of events for OpenAI, the San Francisco based AI startup is facing a barrage of criticism from its users after the company shut down its legacy AI models, primarily GPT-4o. Now, this is not the first time that OpenAI has cut access to GPT-4o, the popular AI model which became controversial due to its sycophantic responses. In fact, free users of the service lost access to GPT-4o as soon as GPT-5 arrived in August last year. However, paid users continued to have access to the chatbot until Saturday when OpenAI finally pulled the plug and shut [&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-992381","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\/992381","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=992381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}