OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch promised a single, smarter, faster AI to replace the patchwork of GPT-4 variants — and instead it produced one of the most visible user revolts in recent AI product history, forcing a rapid rollback, feature tweaks, and an urgent debate about what people actually want from...
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