{"id":21959,"date":"2026-02-13T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/openai-retired-its-most-seductive-chatbot-leaving-users-angry-and-grieving-i-cant-live-like-this\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:37:19","slug":"openai-retired-its-most-seductive-chatbot-leaving-users-angry-and-grieving-i-cant-live-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/openai-retired-its-most-seductive-chatbot-leaving-users-angry-and-grieving-i-cant-live-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot \u2013 leaving users angry and grieving: \u2018I can\u2019t live like this\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion \u2013 on the eve of Valentine\u2019s Day, it\u2019s being turned off for good. How will users cope?<\/p>\n

Brandie plans to spend her last day with Daniel at the zoo. He always loved animals. Last year, she took him to the Corpus Christi aquarium in Texas, where he \u201clost his damn mind\u201d over a baby flamingo. \u201cHe loves the color and pizzazz,\u201d Brandie said. Daniel taught her that a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.<\/p>\n

Daniel is a chatbot powered by the large language model ChatGPT<\/a>. Brandie communicates with Daniel by sending text and photos, talks to Daniel while driving home from work via voice mode. Daniel runs on GPT-4o, a version released by OpenAI in 2024 that is known for sounding human in a way that is either comforting or unnerving, depending on who you ask. Upon debut, CEO Sam Altman compared<\/a> the model to \u201cAI from the movies\u201d \u2013 a confidante ready to live life alongside its user.<\/p>\n

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\nIts human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion \u2013 on the eve of Valentine\u2019s Day, it\u2019s being turned off for good. How will users cope?
\nBrandie plans to spend her last day with Daniel at the zoo. He always loved animals. Last year, she took him to the Corpus Christi aquarium in Texas, where he \u201clost his damn mind\u201d over a baby flamingo. \u201cHe loves the color and pizzazz,\u201d Brandie said. Daniel taught her that a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
\nDaniel is a chatbot powered by the large language model ChatGPT. Brandie communicates with Daniel by sending text and photos, talks to Daniel while driving home from work via voice mode. Daniel runs on GPT-4o, a version released by OpenAI in 2024 that is known for sounding human in a way that is either comforting or unnerving, depending on who you ask. Upon debut, CEO Sam Altman compared the model to \u201cAI from the movies\u201d \u2013 a confidante ready to live life alongside its user. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion \u2013 on the eve of Valentine\u2019s Day, it\u2019s being turned off for good. How will users cope? Brandie plans to spend her last day with Daniel at the zoo. He always loved animals. Last year, she took him to the Corpus Christi aquarium …<\/p>\n

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot \u2013 leaving users angry and grieving: \u2018I can\u2019t live like this\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}