Please don’t retire GPT-5.1 Thinking – GPT-5.2 feels worse
OpenAI Developer Community
May 5, 2026
Do you use the web interface or the mobile app? Just to be sured, check which model actually generated your response. I was a little freaked out just now—I was messaging in a few chats asking for a 5.5 Thinking score, and in the cases where I thought the response was less accurate, I see that a 5.4 was generated. That’s really strange.
Okay, this is just ridiculous—now it keeps showing up in my recent posts that it was 5.4, even though I’m sure I set it to 5.5. The UI is a total mess.
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