1.For enterprise customers: have you received enforceable model availability guarantees? 2.Has anyone experienced systematic service degradation prior to the discontinuation? 3.How should regulators treat sudden AI product sunsets affecting millions of users？
Why This Matters This goes far beyond individual Subscription funds subscriptions. It raises fundamental issues for the AI industry: Corporate accountability: Can providers simply break public product promises with impunity? Regulatory frameworks: Should AI product availability be a legally enforceable commitment? Consumer protection: Are users entitled to pro-rated refunds or remedies when sold “as available” subscriptions are suddenly discontinued? Industry governance: What does this mean for market competition, trust, and sustainable innovation? Rather than being remembered as a pivotal moment for AI industry governance, OpenAI’s shift toward B2B monetization—at the expense of transparency, continuity, and user trust—should serve as a stark warning. It demonstrates how easy it is for organizations to abandon “benefiting humanity” in favor of profit, and how little protection ordinary users have when those priorities change.
tl;dr this has always been the way of software, it's not going to change with ai, especially so early on
aurareturn•1h ago
It's crazy how emotionally attached people are to 4o. I wonder if through prompt instructing, OpenAI can get GPT 5 series to talk more like 4o for these people?
NitpickLawyer•1h ago
If oAI numbers are to be trusted, there are ~800k people who still use 4o every day.
tizzzzz•1h ago