ChatGPT users are mass cancelling OpenAI subscriptions after GPT-5 launch: Here’s why

OpenAI’s much-hyped GPT-5 model was unveiled during a live-streaming event by the company on Thursday. The new model comes with claimed improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, accuracy, writing, and multi-modal abilities compared to the older models, while also having a lower hallucination rate (tendency to make stuff up). Despite all these improvements, longtime ChatGPT users were not happy with the upgrade provided by the AI startup, as the company also went on to discontinue older models like GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, GPT-4.1-mini, o4-mini,…