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0 pointsjoshstrange7mo ago0 comments

OpenAI does this for literally _every_ release. They constantly say "Available to everyone" or "Rolling out today" or "Rolling out over the next few days". As a paying Plus member it irks me to no end, they almost never hit their self-imposed deadlines.

The linked page says

> GPT-5 is here > Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.

Lies. I don't care if they are "rolling it out" still, that's not an excuse to lie on their website. It drives me nuts. It also means that by the time I finally get access I don't notice for a few days up to a week because I'm not going to check for it every days. You'd think their engineers would be able to write a simple notification system to alert users when they get access (even just in the web UI), but no. One day it isn't there, one day it is.

I'll get off my soapbox now but this always annoys me greatly.

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jhickok7mo ago

It annoys me too because as someone that jumps around to the different models and the subscriptions, when I see that it says it's available to everyone I paid the money for the subscription only to find out that apparently it's rolling out in some manner of priority. I would very much have liked a quick bit of info that "hey, you wont be able to give this a try since we are prioritizing current customers".

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0 pointsjoshstrange7mo ago0 comments

The linked page says

> GPT-5 is here > Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.

I'll get off my soapbox now but this always annoys me greatly.

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jhickok7mo ago

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