GPT-5 hiccups into existence

The much-heralded LLM caused more annoyance than awe at the start

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OpenAI made big promises with the launch of GPT-5 in August, describing it as its “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet, with built-in thinking that puts expert-level intelligence in everyone's hands”.

Perhaps Sam Altman should have asked it about how to avoid annoying its loyal subscriber base pre-launch, with Plus subscribers-who pay £20 per month-quickly complaining that they had used up their allotted resources.