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A lot of people have been talking about OpenAI re-instating 4o because users want sycophancy.
While OpenAI did re-instate 4o for paid users, it seems like they are trying to prevent users from using it as much as possible.
To access 4o from a plus account, one needs to:
This seems like intentionally dissuasive UI to me.
That being said, if I have 4o enabled and then create a new chat, the next chat will also be with 4o. (I was hoping they'd do an Anthropic style thing and make GPT-5 the default on all new chats).