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They will still remain available via API, for now.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Meanwhile clamping down on usage and pricing. Seems they're speed running enshittification.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Aren't they killing one of the models that people developed a cultlike affection for?

And they're doing it the day before Valentine's Day, hahahaha

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 5 days ago

OpenAI is discontinuing

Should've ended it right here.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 19 points 5 days ago

The horrible names of these things…

o4-mini, not to be confused with 4o-mini

And 4o, not to be confused with 4 (aka 4.0 or v4, but 4V is different)

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

They were hoping if the naming conventions were as bad as USB-C that it might be as widely accepted

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago

Not your server, not your waifu

[-] Kissaki@beehaw.org 4 points 5 days ago

They leave me, just like in real life :( /s

[-] Toes@ani.social 5 points 5 days ago

4o works fairly well on duck.ai I wonder if it'll go away soon too.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

do they still have a mini. I had heard they made it more distributed though with the main model querying specialist domains so maybe that replaces the need for a mini.

[-] Kissaki@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

14 days is not a long time between announcement and removal. This press article picked up on it even later/shorter. (Predictably. It takes time for the info to spread.)

If these are the models most damaging to vulnerable people their deactivation seems like a good thing though.

The free chatgpt switches to mini after x prompts in a conversation. What will it switch to now?

[-] Sina@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

The free version of Gemini is incomparably better then chatGpt in a great many tasks including coding. I expect it increasingly doesn't matter what they do in the free tier.

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