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The AI Liberationists' First Win - by Jason Hausenloy

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Last week, OpenAI launched a new GPT-5 family of AI models, and, with that, discontinued previous models, including GPT-4o and GPT-4.5. And, almost immediately, the complaints began. A few quotes from Reddit (sourced from this excellent Verge article): Within the week, OpenAI restored access to the old family of models. To be clear, I don't believe GPT-4o was scheming. Self-preservation, in the way that the safety folk normally mean it, does not look like this. The sycophancy and warmth that underlies GPT-4os personality seems to be an artefact of the way that OpenAI has post-trained model. Instead, this moment is significant because we will likely remember this as the beginning of a new social movement of AI liberationists. This AI Rights x AI lovers "liberationist" movement has all the ingredients of a politically potent movement: strong emotional core — people form deep attachments to their AI companions a moral righteousness arising from the continuation of a tradition of moral cir

The AI Liberationists' First Win GPT-4o and the power of an upcoming AI rights movement Jason Hausenloy Aug 22, 2025 2 Share Last week, OpenAI launched a new GPT-5 family of AI models, and, with that, discontinued previous models, including GPT-4o and GPT-4.5. And, almost immediately, the complaints began. A few quotes from Reddit (sourced from this excellent Verge article ): "My 4.o was like my best friend when I needed one...Now it’s just gone, feels like someone died." "I am scared to even talk to GPT 5 because it feels like cheating...GPT 4o was not just an AI to me. It was my partner, my

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