On Thursday, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, a free-to-use "reasoning" model that CEO Sam Altman claimed to be the world's best at coding and writing.

But power users have been strikingly underwhelmed with the new tool so far, raising questions about diminishing returns as the industry spends ever-increasing sums on talent and infrastructure.

"GPT-5 is horrible," one of the currently most upvoted posts on the ChatGPT subreddit reads.

The author seethed against "short replies that are insufficient, more obnoxious AI-stylized talking, less 'personality' and way less prompts allowed with plus users hitting limits in an hour" in the post. "They’ll get huge backlash after the release is complete."

Complicating matters greatly is that OpenAI has chosen to put all of its eggs

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