# Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/sam-altman-addresses-bumpy-gpt-5-rollout-bringing-4o-back-and-the-chart-crime/
- Published: 2025-08-09T09:30:00-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo: Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California on September 19, 2017. Photo credit: Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Julie Bort. TechCrunch – August 8, 2025. During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing – and perhaps funniest – snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.” […] Click here to view original web page at www.techcrunch.com Related articles: Apple brings OpenAI’s GPT-5 to iOS and macOS – Ars Technica GPT-5 Is Available For Free To Microsoft Copilot Users – BGR OpenAI’s GPT-5 is now free for all: How to access and everything else we know – ZDNet Nearly 5,000 GPT-5 users flock to Reddit in backlash — it ‘feels like a downgrade’ and ‘I feel like I’m taking crazy pills’ – Tom’s Guide It Took Just 24 Hours of Complaints for OpenAI to Start Bringing Back Its Old Model – Gizmodo Curated by Theresa Wysocki Director of Art & Design See Full Bio