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ChatGPT writing regression is now at the centre of an unusually candid admission from OpenAI boss Sam Altman.
Speaking at OpenAI’s first developer town hall, Altman acknowledged that GPT‑5.2 produces weaker writing than its predecessor GPT‑4.5, even as it delivers significant gains in coding, reasoning and maths. “I think we just screwed that up,” he told attendees, adding that future versions of GPT-5.x will “hopefully” be much better at writing again.
OpenAI has pitched GPT‑5.2 as its most capable model yet for professional knowledge work, emphasising spreadsheet creation, code generation and complex multi‑step projects to appeal to enterprise customers who pay per token. That commercial focus meant engineering‑heavy features were prioritised, while everyday writing and everyday tone were effectively downgraded.
Developers and AI builders using GPT‑5.2 have complained that its prose feels more “unwieldy” and “hard to read” than GPT‑4.5, especially for client‑facing drafts and long‑form content. Altman conceded that with “limited bandwidth”, OpenAI chose to make GPT‑5.2 “super good at intelligence, reasoning, coding, engineering”, and, in doing so, neglected other skills. He also argued that even code‑focused systems “should write well, too”, signalling that balance will have to be restored.
OpenAI says it will address the ChatGPT writing regression in upcoming GPT‑5.x updates, but has not given a clear timetable. For now, users who rely on ChatGPT for polished copy are being urged by industry experts to re‑test prompts, compare outputs across models and keep a fallback option if quality drops after an automatic upgrade. The episode underlines a greater tension in AI: pushing models towards ever higher reasoning power can carry very human‑visible trade‑offs in how they actually read.
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