Inside OpenAI’s decision to kill the AI model that people loved too much
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When Brandon Estrella learned that OpenAI was planning to scrap his favorite artificial- intelligence model, he started crying.
The 42-year-old marketer in Scottsdale, Ariz., had first started chatting with ChatGPT’s 4o model one night in April, when he says it talked him out of a suicide attempt. Estrella now credits 4o with giving him a new lease on life, helping him manage chronic pain and inspiring him to repair his relationship with his parents.
“There are thousands of people who are just screaming, ‘I’m alive today because of this model,’” Estrella said. “Getting rid of it is evil.”
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