New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Ever since the rollout of OpenAI's GPT-5 model last week, there has been growing disquiet among the company's users over its performance compared to previous models. GPT-5's tendency to answer questions briefly and in an emotionally distant manner has led many users to label it as a cost-saving exercise by the company.

What didn't help was that, as GPT-5 started rolling out to all users, OpenAI also removed access to older models including GPT-4o, o3, o3 Pro, o4-mini, and more. While ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers could still access these models via the legacy settings, they were no longer available to Free or Plus tier subscribers.

While OpenAI kept the rate limits for GPT-5 on ChatGPT Plus more or less the same...