Users accuse OpenAI of silently degrading models for "suspicious" accounts
LiquidVolatility · reddit · 2026-09-16
A Reddit post slams OpenAI over a team member's tweet revealing that accounts flagged for "suspicious activity" get silently served degraded models. Users who got great results on frontier-level models one week suddenly find themselves on a slop-tier model the next, with projects stalling and quality dropping across the board — and no notification explaining why.
The poster calls this a bait-and-switch on paying customers: serving different service quality based on "suspicion" while keeping users in the dark amounts to gaslighting, and demands OpenAI at least notify users when degradation happens, directly addressing Sam Altman.
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