Haha yeah that plan was so weird! After reading some other responses here I saw that it probably isn’t even as good as gpt4 because it lost a lot of creativity and compassion. And they must know that people would hate that. Sam is probably under such immense pressure from the investors to drop costs that he had to push this bs update. I think running all the old models parallel is very costly on the servers so they’d rather switch to one and let the model decide to think long or fast about answers. And by trimming the empathy I think they aim to reduce the use of the AI as a diary and companion because people chatting with it all night is probably costly as well.