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OpenAI Shipmas Twist: Today’s Demo, Tomorrow’s Downgrade
OpenAI Shipmas and The Morning After
Two years of watching OpenAI’s holiday magic fade by morning, where quality drops and quotas shrink without warning.
Remember that perfect Christmas morning feeling? This year’s OpenAI Shipmas came with all the excitement of Christmas morning — twelve days of presents, each promising to be more magical than the last. As we unwrap each new announcement, something curious emerges. Inevitably, within days, most gifts end up forgotten in a corner, gathering dust by New Year’s. OpenAI’s Shipmas follows a similar pattern, but with an unusual twist: it’s not we who lose interest — it’s the gifts themselves that seem to lose their magic, their capabilities dimming once the spotlight fades and the confetti settles. From DALL·E’s degrading quality to GPT-4’s shrinking quotas, the pattern is clear — and I have the screenshots to prove it.
The Shipmas Night
This year, in celebration of the second anniversary of ChatGPT, — released on November 30, 2022, — Sam Altman has…
