ChatGPT Creator Admits: "AI Is a Speculative Bubble." He Wants to Spend Trillions

The new GPT-5 disappointed many ChatGPT users. It didn't deliver the significant leap in quality that had been expected. Although it's OpenAI's most powerful yet, many users found it inferior to its predecessors , less "warm" and less supportive, and more matter-of-fact, sometimes cold. Some commented that responses had become stiffer, more technical, and less empathetic. There was a feeling that the new version was less responsive to the interviewer's style.

ChatGPT will be more diverse

The OpenAI CEO met with journalists in San Francisco to respond to the wave of criticism following the launch of GPT-5. He downplayed the complaints, claiming that ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day than all humans combined. "And it's unrealistic to expect a single personality or model style to meet all those needs," he explained. However, after user backlash, the company restored access to the earlier GPT-4o.

Altman admitted that the company made a mistake during its last launch by underestimating how the change in tone would impact users. He also announced that ChatGPT will soon gain more customization options. "We'll have to offer completely different types of products to meet the huge variety of use cases and people's expectations," he said, as quoted by Wired.

When asked if there's a speculative bubble in the field of artificial intelligence, Altman replied, "definitely," but emphasized that this doesn't mean the technology itself won't be groundbreaking. "When bubbles appear, smart people get overexcited about the grain of truth. Just look at previous bubbles, like the tech bubble—there was something real going on there too. Technology was really changing the world; the internet was really a big deal," he argued.