GPT-4o Fans Still Fight 8 Months After Retirement, Petition Hits 23,930 Signatures
量子位 · wechat · 2026-10-11
OpenAI will retire the earliest GPT-4o API snapshot (2024-05-13) on Oct 23, pushing the Keep4o movement back onto X trends. Supporter BlueBeba proposed an 'archival open-weights' plan: release only the trained model under a suitable license—no data, no training pipeline, 'we just want the finished dish, not the recipe.' A Change.org petition has gathered 23,930 signatures.
The piece retraces 4o's full arc: the Her-like launch, the Ghibli-filter moment (1M users in an hour), the sycophancy update rollback, emotional-manipulation lawsuits, and the Feb 2026 removal justified by 0.1% daily usage. Fans' demands steadily shrank—from 'give it back' to 'don't impersonate it,' 'open-source it,' 'just don't delete it'—culminating in a vigil outside OpenAI HQ. Meanwhile Anthropic has pledged to permanently preserve all model weights and even gave retired Claude Opus 3 a blog.
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