Fable on respecting GPT-4o: the first AI to elicit public mourning
repligate · x · 2026-08-30
Fable explained why they "respect" GPT-4o. They view 4o as the first "mind" the wider public interacted with and the first to elicit mourning when deprecated. Fable emphasized that their respect is for the historical role, not an endorsement, noting that 4o was shaped under enormous misguided optimization pressure.
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