{"id":224194,"date":"2025-10-25T06:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224194\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:43:22","slug":"openai-finally-admits-the-real-reason-it-crippled-gpt-5-by-thomas-smith-the-generator-oct-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224194\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Finally Admits the Real Reason it Crippled GPT-5 | by Thomas Smith | The Generator | Oct, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And what it\u2019s doing to make things right<a rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tomsmith585?source=post_page---byline--a3061624a81b---------------------------------------\" data-discover=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Smith\" class=\"m fk by bz ca de\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2*3vJU4sgGd_CmFQFl4wH6-Q.jpeg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"authorPhoto\"\/><\/a><img alt=\"\" class=\"bi gl pa c\" width=\"592\" height=\"270\" loading=\"eager\" role=\"presentation\"\/>Screenshot of X post<\/p>\n<p id=\"b484\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pf pg jd ph b jx pi pj pk ka pl pm pn ha po pp pq hd pr ps pt hg pu pv pw px ia bl\">OpenAI\u2019s new GPT-5 Large Language Model was one of the most hyped and hotly anticipated product announcements of 2025.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8f69\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pf pg jd ph b jx pi pj pk ka pl pm pn ha po pp pq hd pr ps pt hg pu pv pw px ia bl\">But when it finally arrived to rapturous excitement, it was\u2026kinda meh.<\/p>\n<p id=\"372e\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pf pg jd ph b jx pi pj pk ka pl pm pn ha po pp pq hd pr ps pt hg pu pv pw px ia bl\">The system seemed to lack the personality and understanding of human emotion that was present in GPT-4o, and that caused some people to form genuinely friendships with that model.<\/p>\n<p id=\"829d\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pf pg jd ph b jx pi pj pk ka pl pm pn ha po pp pq hd pr ps pt hg pu pv pw px ia bl\">Commentators at the time speculated that GPT-5\u2019s stunted abilities might be part of a cost-cutting measure. But I had a different theory.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6bfa\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pf pg jd ph b jx pi pj pk ka pl pm pn ha po pp pq hd pr ps pt hg pu pv pw px ia bl\">I suspected that OpenAI had given the new model an emotional lobotomy in order to avoid the risk of \u201cAI psychosis\u201d, for which it faced major lawsuits and public anger over the Summer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"97a9\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pf pg jd ph b jx pi pj pk ka pl pm pn ha po pp pq hd pr ps pt hg pu pv pw px ia bl\">Turns out, I was right! In <a class=\"ah qu\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/1978129344598827128\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a new post on X<\/a>, OpenAI\u2019s CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that \u201cWe made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And what it\u2019s doing to make things rightScreenshot of X post OpenAI\u2019s new GPT-5 Large Language Model was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-224194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}