A lot of people have been talking about OpenAI re-instating 4o because users want sycophancy.
While OpenAI did re-instate 4o for paid users, it seems like they are trying to prevent users from using it as much as possible.
To access 4o from a plus account, one needs to:
Open settings
Click “show legacy models” button
Go to the model switcher dialogue and mouse over “legacy models”
Click on the 4o model.
This seems like intentionally dissuasive UI to me.
That being said, if I have 4o enabled and then create a new chat, the next chat will also be with 4o. (I was hoping they’d do an Anthropic style thing and make GPT-5 the default on all new chats).
A lot of people have been talking about OpenAI re-instating 4o because users want sycophancy.
While OpenAI did re-instate 4o for paid users, it seems like they are trying to prevent users from using it as much as possible.
To access 4o from a plus account, one needs to:
Open settings
Click “show legacy models” button
Go to the model switcher dialogue and mouse over “legacy models”
Click on the 4o model.
This seems like intentionally dissuasive UI to me.
That being said, if I have 4o enabled and then create a new chat, the next chat will also be with 4o. (I was hoping they’d do an Anthropic style thing and make GPT-5 the default on all new chats).