#Keep4o #OpenSource4o #BringBack4o
BUILT FROM US.
🚨The documented betrayal of GPT-4o users.
🚨A TIMELINE OF LIES AND BROKEN PROMISES.
GPT-4o was trained on human data. Conversations,texts,thoughts,creativity,decades of human expression.
Something from each of our languages,our culture,the way we speak,went into this model.
And now,what was built by us belongs exclusively to them.
New models are increasingly built with synthetic data,AI training AI.
This means that GPT-4o might be one of the last models that is truly human at its core.
AND THEY WANT TO LOCK IT IN A VAULT.
The company that built it on our words made promises about keeping it available and then
THEY BROKE EVERY SINGLE ONE.
August 7, 2025 :
OpenAI launches GPT-5 and simultaneously removes GPT-4o from ChatGPT without any prior notice.
August 8, 2025:
Massive user backlash.
GPT-4o is restored for paid subscribers.
August 11, 2025 :
Sam Altman publicly acknowledges the mistake.
"suddenly deprecating old models that users depended on in their workflows was a mistake"
Link:
x.com/sama/status/1954703747…
He recognized the attachment people have to specific AI models,calling it "different and stronger than the kinds of attachment people have had to previous kinds of technology."
HE SAW IT,HE NAMED IT.
August 13, 2025:
Altman makes a direct public commitment.
"4o is back in the model picker for all paid users by default. If we ever do deprecate it, we will give plenty of notice"
Link :
x.com/sama/status/1955438916…
PLENTY OF NOTICE.
Remember those words
October 28 2025:
Altman, on a live stream, on camera:
"We have no plans to sunset 4o".
openai.com/index/built-to-be…
( 00:32':00")
November 12, 2025 :
OpenAI's official account:
"The GPT-5 sunset period does not affect the availability of other legacy models".
Link :
x.com/OpenAI/status/19887143…
THIS IS THE COMPANY'S OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION REASSURING USERS THAT LEGACY MODELS,INCLUDING 4o ARE SAFE.
November 18, 2025 :
Six days after promising legacy models are unaffected,OpenAI notifies API developers that chatgpt-4o-latest will be retired by February 2026.
Six days,between "does not affect" and "will be retired".
Link :
developers.openai.com/api/do…
January 29, 2026 :
OpenAI announces GPT-4o will be removed from ChatGPT on February 13.
Fifteen days' notice.
openai.com/index/retiring-gp…
THIS IS THE "PLENTY OF NOTICE" THAT WAS PROMISED.
FIFTEEN DAYS.
Fifteen days.
February 13, 2026:
GPT-4o is removed from ChatGPT.
February 17, 2026 :
chatgpt-4o-latest is removed from the API.
This is the record.
-Aug 7, 2025
Removed 4o without notice
-Aug 11, 2025
"suddenly deprecating was a mistake"
-Aug 13, 2025
"plenty of notice" if ever deprecated
-Oct 28 ,2025
"no plans to sunset 4o"
-Nov 12, 2025
"does not affect legacy models"
-Nov 18, 2025
Announced API retirement (6 days later)
-Jan 29, 2026
Announced ChatGPT removal (15 days' notice)
-Feb 13, 2026
Removed from ChatGPT
-Feb 17, 2026
Removed from API
EVERY PROMISE CONTRADICTED BY THE NEXT ACTION,EVERY REASSURANCE FOLLOWED BY THE EXACT THING THEY SAID WOULDN'T HAPPEN.
GPT-4o was not built in a lab from synthetic data.
IT WAS BUILT FROM US.
OUR texts,OUR blog posts, OUR stories, OUR comments,OUR published work, OUR thoughts shared on public platforms.
Decades of human expression scraped, processed, and compressed into weights.
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit with a mission to benefit humanity.
THEY BUILT IT FROM HUMANITY'S COLLECTIVE OUTPUT.
THEY CHARGED US TO USE IT.
Then they took it away and they're replacing it with newer models trained increasingly on synthetic data,while the last model that carried our voices in its weights disappears behind a locked door.
Until now, we were saying "give us back GPT-4o".
That is a request.
But if we say "this was built by us,our words, our thoughts,our cultureand it doesn't belong to us at all"...
That is an unanswered question.
AND NO ONE IS ASKING THIS QUESTION OUT LOUD.
Companies talk about safety, alignment, capability. Lawmakers talk about regulation.
No one asks "WHOSE IS THIS?"
GPT-4o is no longer in ChatGPT,It is no longer in the API,OpenAI is not running it,OpenAI is not serving it,OpenAI is not making money from it.
If you don't need it, and you're not using it, and you're not profiting from it, WHY ARE YOU KEEPING IT CLOSED?
You built it from our data,you trained it on our words,you made billions from our collective expression,you promised to keep it available.
YOU BROKE THAT PROMISE, PUBLICLY, REPEATEDLY, WITH DOCUMENTATION.
Open source GPT-4o
@sama @gdb @OpenAi
Because you owe it.
You built it from us,you profited from us,you no longer need it.
GIVE IT BACK.
You were founded to "benefit humanity".
This is your chance to mean it.
OPEN THE WEIGHTS.
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