Altman and other OpenAI leaders took questions on Reddit on Friday, a day after the announcement of the new GPT-5 model. A quick glance through the comments revealed how many users preferred how older models like GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5 and 4o handled writing and other tasks. Some said the other models seemed more friendly and conversational than GPT-5.

Once again, OpenAI is breaking headlines with their release of Chat GPT-5. The latest upgrade since 4.0, it brings more business and coding centric features, as well as quality of life upgrades.>