New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- In a familiar turn of events for OpenAI, the San Francisco based AI startup is facing a barrage of criticism from its users after the company shut down its legacy AI models, primarily GPT-4o. Now, this is not the first time that OpenAI has cut access to GPT-4o, the popular AI model which became controversial due to its sycophantic responses. In fact, free users of the service lost access to GPT-4o as soon as GPT-5 arrived in August last year. However, paid users continued to have access to the chatbot until Saturday when OpenAI finally pulled the plug and shut down the popular AI model.

The departure of GPT-4o isn't sudden news altogether either, with OpenAI giving users a two week notice to get their affairs in ord...