The Reason for the GPT-5 Backlash Is More Worrisome Than Its Bugginess

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The much-anticipated (by job eliminators) ChatGPT-5 launched a couple of days ago, and social media has not shut up about it. The backlash has been swift, loud, and — if you believe Reddit — borderline biblical. Some of it’s about the new model’s inability to nail basic tasks, its glitches, and its slower runtime. Others are furious over the rate limits — 10 messages every 5 hours for free users, 160 every 3 hours for GPT+ (or more than I talk to real humans in a day).

But the loudest, most emotional complaints are about the loss of GPT-4’s personality. As one Redditor wrote in a post now upvoted over 10,000 times :

4o wasn’t just a tool for me. It helped me through anxiety,

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