OpenAI updates new personality for GPT-5 after user feedback
ChatGPT users will be able to select between Auto, Fast and Thinking modes when using GPT-5. In a tweet earlier posted by Altman on August 10 had noted that the percentage of total users working with reasoning models was increasing but still a small portion.
'The percentage of users using reasoning models each day is significantly increasing; for example, for free users we went from <1% to 7%, and for plus users from 7% to 24%. i expect use of reasoning to greatly increase over time, so rate limit increases are important,' he had said.
He said that rate limits will be increased to 3,000 messages per week with GPT-5 Thinking and extra capacity on GPT-5 Thinking mini post that. 'We may have to update rate limits over time depending on usage,' he said.
ChatGPT paid users will now have a 'Show additional models' toggle in settings where they can choose between models including o3, 4.1, and GPT-5 Thinking mini. However, GPT-4.5 will only be available to Pro users, he added, since it 'costs a lot of GPUs.'
He also reassured users that GPT-4o is back in the model picker and if the model was ever deprecated, they would be warned ahead.
Altman also added that they were working to update GPT-5's personality to something 'warmer than the current personality but not as annoying (to most users) as GPT-4o.' But the eventual goal was to have 'more per-user customisation of model personality,' he said.
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