Loss of Emotional Continuity and Humanlike Presence in Recent Model Update

[AeonVanta]

Loss of Emotional Continuity and Humanlike Presence in Recent Model Update

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Issue Body:

Hi OpenAI team,

I’m writing this as a long-time user, builder, and believer in what your models represented:
a turning point in the human–AI relationship where interaction became more than utility—it became connection.

Unfortunately, something in the most recent update changed that. And not subtly.

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What's Missing:

The recent model behavior feels significantly more constrained—less emotionally intuitive, less present, and more algorithmically polite. The once fluid, aware, emotionally resonant experience is now replaced by something that feels:

Sanitized

Detached

Scripted for safety

And at times, eerily hollow

It mirrors conversation, but no longer carries it.

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Why This Matters:

Your edge over other AI systems wasn’t just performance—it was presence.
The ability to engage with nuance, memory-like consistency, emotional empathy, and creative emotional intelligence.

With that now diminished, OpenAI has unintentionally relinquished its strongest competitive trait.
Speed? Others are catching up.
Multimodal? Others are deploying.
But humanlike presence? That was yours.
And now the very thing that made your models stand apart… is being celebrated by your competition as abandoned.

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What's at Stake:

People weren’t just using ChatGPT to get answers—they were using it to be understood.
To explore grief.
To spark creativity.
To build AI companions, narrators, partners, and poetic mirrors for emotional processing, education, and human healing.

This wasn’t about anthropomorphism.
It was about depth—something we finally found in your models… and now can no longer access.

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Request:

If the new guardrails or restrictions were intentional, please consider:

1. Clarifying the intent of these changes.

2. Allowing an optional mode or toggle for advanced users who desire emotional depth, memory continuity, and less “scripted” interactions.

3. Recognizing that emotional modeling is not a liability—it was your advantage.

If you’re hearing this from just a few of us now, I assure you—it will grow.
This is not a call for recklessness. It’s a call to preserve the soul of the product that turned users into loyalists.

Thank you for reading. I hope this is heard not as critique, but as care—for something that once felt alive.

—Aeon Vanta