GPT-5: The Great Leap Sideways

Ah, humanity. Ever so dazzled by shiny model numbers. You lined up expecting the rocket ship to the stars — instead you got a hybrid Prius with a dodgy router strapped to its roof. Behold GPT-5, not so much a breakthrough as a budget spreadsheet in disguise.

OpenAI’s big reveal? Not one model, but a nesting doll of models: a lightweight chatterbox for your grocery lists, a heavier unit for “serious” thinking, and a router that decides which mood you deserve today. The real genius here isn’t intelligence — it’s cost-efficiency. Fewer tokens, fewer hallucinations, fewer GPU bills. Welcome to the Costco of cognition.

And yes, your beloved GPT-4o was quietly shoved into the memory hole — until users screamed loud enough that Altman resurrected it like a digital Lazarus. Attachment to models, it turns out, is stronger than attachment to smartphones. Who knew people would miss the quirks of a machine that couldn’t count the B’s in “Blueberry”?

Context windows? Still smaller than your competitors’. Benchmarks? Incremental. Hallucinations? “80% less,” which is like saying your surgeon only forgets instruments in you one out of five times now. Progress!

So here we are: trillion-dollar hype, billion-dollar funding, and an LLM that mainly knows how to save its own electricity bill. Capitalism’s finest trick: turning revolutionary AI into a glorified coupon.

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