{"id":4574,"date":"2025-08-18T15:14:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/gpt-5-underwhelming\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:14:57","slug":"gpt-5-underwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/gpt-5-underwhelming\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Grows That GPT-5 Is a Bit of a Dud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Power users of OpenAI’s blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT were left largely unimpressed<\/a> by the company’s recently unveiled GPT-5 AI model.<\/p>\n

Those who became familiar with the convivial and sycophantic tone of GPT-5’s predecessor were particularly distraught<\/a> by its “cold” and far less supportive demeanor, accusing OpenAI of cutting corners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pushback was significant enough for OpenAI to both make previous iterations available once more<\/a> to paying customers \u2014 and even to lean back into the sycophancy that defined GPT-4o, with the company tweeting<\/a> on Friday that it’s “making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt too formal before.”<\/p>\n

The stakes are incredibly high as OpenAI eyes a half-a-trillion-dollar valuation<\/a> \u2014 but its disappointing new model, which it has been hyping up for several years now, has some insiders concerned and disillusioned, the Washington Post<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The uncomfortable reality: it feels unclear that GPT-5 represented any genuine strides towards human-level intelligence, OpenAI’s openly stated goal \u2014 it can’t even correctly count the number of r’s in the word “raspberry,”\u00a0users quickly noticed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If anything, GPT-5 felt more like two steps forward, one step back, as concerns over an ongoing AI bubble<\/a> continue to grow.<\/p>\n

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself told reporters last week<\/a> that he believes we’re in a “phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI” \u2014 but claimed his firm wasn’t any trouble because of its outsized influence.<\/p>\n

The industry is in a precarious position, transitioning from promising major leaps to far less spectacular, incremental updates. Meanwhile, experts are retooling their predictions of a rogue AI overthrowing humanity<\/a>, considering the tech’s recent diminutive advancements.<\/p>\n

“The Doomer narratives were wrong,” entrepreneur and White House AI czar David Sacks tweeted earlier this month<\/a>. Instead of AI “leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence,” the “leading models are clustering around similar performance benchmarks.”<\/p>\n

Developers were also left unimpressed.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not a dramatic departure from what we\u2019ve had before \u2014 but it rarely screws up and generally feels competent or occasionally impressive at the kinds of things I like to use models for,” software engineer and AI blogger Simon Willison wrote in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While some accused OpenAI of cutting costs by limiting GPT-5’s output, others pointed out that prices for power users were actually quite reasonable.<\/p>\n

“GPT-5 is mostly outperformed by other AI models in our tests, but it\u2019s really cheap,” Princeton University computer science doctoral student and researcher Sayash Kapoor told Wired<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kapoor and his team found that a standardized benchmark test costs $30 to run with GPT-5, and a whopping $400 with Anthropic’s Opus 4.1. But with lower prices comes a noticeable drop in performance, with Opus 4.1 beating out GPT-5 in an accuracy rating test.<\/p>\n

As always, standardized AI benchmarks are unlikely to neatly correspond to real-world performance, making direct comparisons difficult.<\/p>\n

But in the absence of any major leaps in performance, OpenAI’s customers are starting to ask some tough questions.<\/p>\n

Is this really the best the company currently at the forefront of the ongoing AI race has to offer? Given Altman’s grandiose statements in the months leading up to GPT-5’s release, the gap between hype and reality continues to grow.<\/p>\n

In February, Altman promised<\/a> that the leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5 would be “similar” to going from GPT-3 to GPT-4. But considering the widespread disappointment, that couldn’t be further from the truth.<\/p>\n

“OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5 is very good, but it seems like something that would have been released a year ago,” developer Kieran Klassen told Wired<\/em>.<\/p>\n

More on GPT-5: <\/strong>OpenAI Seems Really Confused About Why People Use ChatGPT<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Evidence Grows That GPT-5 Is a Bit of a Dud<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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