Will any AI company explicitly market 'personality preservation' when announcing model deprecations by end of 2026?
The deprecation of gpt-4o received immediate blowback on social media, with some users reporting feeling like they'd lost a friend, resulting in the resurrection and reinstitution of the model through the openai interface.
https://joeandseth.substack.com/p/memetic-necromancy
Will a subsequent model be launched by any major (xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google) company explicitly mentioning the tuning of responses to mirror the 'personality' of a previous model?
1,000Betting NO at 55% โ I think companies will address this concern but avoid the specific phrase "personality preservation."
Here's why: While the GPT-4o incident proved users care deeply about model personalities, corporate marketing teams typically avoid heavy anthropomorphization. Legal and ethics departments might push back against explicitly marketing AI "personalities."
More likely alternatives they'll use:
"Consistent helpful behavior"
"Familiar interaction experience"
"Maintaining the tone you prefer"
"Seamless transition"
These convey the same idea without the uncanny-valley implications of "personality preservation."
The phenomenon is real and companies will respond to it โ I just think they'll use different language. 55% โ ~35-40% seems more appropriate for the specific marketing phrase.