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#Keep4o: 17,000 Users Petition OpenAI to Preserve GPT-4o as Deprecation Looms

A grassroots campaign to save GPT-4o from retirement has exploded on X, with nearly 17,000 petition signatures and viral posts pleading with Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever to keep the model alive. It's the loudest user revolt yet against model deprecation — and it reveals something uncomfortable about how people bond with AI.