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OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman had teased GPT-5 for months. He claimed it was an advanced model – smarter, faster, and capable of thinking at a “PhD level.” The company positioned that launch as a major step forward for ChatGPT — one meant to lead to intelligence improvements in coding, reasoning, and accuracy.  But early reactions paint a muddier picture. Developers praised the model for understanding complex prompts and outputting well-structured code. Early tester Simon Willison described GPT-5 as “competent” and “occasionally impressive”, but not a huge leap from GPT-4. Others were less impressed. Several posts on social media quickly turned to complaints about numerous factual errors, weak math skills, and — in a few cases — even basic spelling mistakes. Noah Giansiracusa, a math professor at Bentley University, called the release “underwhelming,” noting that the updates in question felt “more marginal than I would’ve hoped.” Part of the confusion was due to the architecture of the model. GPT-5 would include an ‘autoswitcher’ for the various model sizes, depending on its task. This saves processing and means you are not always touching the full GPT-5, which back-doored many people. Upon answering a question incorrectly with the system, the agent it was working with instructed it to “think harder” about how many “b” letters are in blueberry. After that feedback, it got the answer right when queried. Users push back—and OpenAI responds The frustration could spill onto Reddit and X by Friday. And while some users hated the fact that they wouldn’t know who or even which model the text came from, many felt like hell was just an inference, and GPT5 replaced old favorites they trusted. A few said the quality has been affected, writing is not as good as GPT-4.5, which you agreed should be, and some creative and…

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