GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
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OpenAI's GPT-5 launch has damaged the company's reputation, falling short of CEO Sam Altman's promises. Users quickly discovered errors in reasoning, visual comprehension, and basic tasks, leading to petitions for older models. Market confidence plummeted, with OpenAI's predicted dominance dropping significantly on prediction markets. An Arizona State University study supports criticisms about LLMs' inability to generalize beyond training data, suggesting the "pure scaling" approach to AI has hit fundamental limitations.
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