What Do you Guys Think about the new ChagGPT 5 Model that was Recently Announced?

Doesn’t mean anything unless this thing can actually perform meaningful tasks. And that useful tool is still a good two or three years away. Right now we’re only getting taste of it.

It's kinda meh. They're all meh until we get the live, helpful stuff that was demoed on Be My Eyes 2 years ago.

It’s fine, but nothing mind-blowing. It’s definitely faster than the previous models, but I think they’re going to bring back ChatGPT-4o—or at least the latest version of it. They still have the same awkward punctuation, bullet points, and formatting quirks in the text, so for me that’s a bit of a drawback. It’s snappy, don’t get me wrong, but not necessarily fast enough in my opinion.

The ChatGPT agent, which I’m considering part of the GPT-5 package, is pretty slow right now. If you want to get any real work done, you have to provide the exact items you want included in your project. If you leave it up to the agent to find these elements—say music, sound effects, or text—it’s just not going to perform as well. I don’t know why they don’t integrate built-in AI tools for music creation, text generation, and sound effects directly into the studio. That would make it much more appealing and give us more control over what we put into a project. Right now, if you ask the agent to do something as simple as putting a photo over an audio track, you’ll get better results if you produce the audio yourself first and then give it to the agent to assemble. And of course, your mileage will vary—it’s always good to check with someone sighted to make sure the final output is in the correct order. There are also big accessibility limitations. You can’t access certain websites for security reasons, and it can’t complete captchas. If you’re using VoiceOver and try to take over the browser when a captcha pops up, there’s no way to interact with the elements on the page—at least not on iPhone. That locks you out of certain tasks entirely. Some sites also block themselves from being accessed in ChatGPT, so you won’t be ordering from Amazon, for example.

These aren’t necessarily failures on ChatGPT’s part, but it still means there’s a long way to go. They’ve also “upgraded” the voices, but personally, I think they should have stuck with the old ones. There was nothing wrong with them, and I actually preferred them. This is still very early—it hasn’t even been out for a week—so hiccups are expected. There’s more to come in the pipeline, I’m sure. I wouldn’t say I’m impressed, but I’m not disappointed either.

Pretty good. Not having to choose the model is helpful.

regarding the agent, I think this is where apple will get ahead. Without access to things like keychain or local applications, the whole thing is a little sludgy. it is a way off at the moment, though I disagree that it is two or three years.

One thing that is a frustration, and nothing to do with Chat GPT itself, is very long conversations don't play well with voiceover which becomes sluggish. I think its back to voiceover struggling with large context windows as it does in long documents.

I might have a look at the accessibility built into chrome and see if that gives better performance.

Its nice. Wish the Pro Plan for Chatp GPT wasn't so expensive... that's a lot of money a month. I do agree with the person that said not having to choose a model every time is nice.

I couldn't agree more. Some of these models have so many different flavors that you need an AI to figure out which AI model to use! Oh yes, there's an idea...Have the AI model figure out which specialty model to use!!! 😊😊😊-

--Pete

What are the advantages of pro? I saw Sam Altman tweeted that they're considering giving plus users a very limited number of pro tokens.

Based on my understanding, most of what you get on the Pro plan seems to be similar to what’s already available on the Plus plan, just with greater detail. I think on the Pro version you can create short videos—around five seconds—but they don’t have any sound, no audio, not like Google Gemini. It also appears to have higher usage limits for certain features, for whatever that’s worth, such as screen sharing or video sharing, and maybe better analysis or higher reasoning capabilities.

Is anyone here actually on the Pro plan? I also find the upgrade process a bit deceptive. Maybe it’s me, but is there a way to sign up for the Pro plan directly? From what I’ve seen, I can only sign up for the Pro plan if I’m already on the Plus plan. That makes no sense to me. Based on how subscriptions work in the App Store, I should be able to subscribe directly to Pro, but I can’t. It feels contradictory. Is it possible to sign up for Pro directly through the website? Because right now, it’s like they’re saying I need to pay $20 for Plus first, and then on top of that spend $200 or whatever Pro costs per month. That’s absurd. Can someone please explain? If you have 1,000 customers, wouldn’t it make more sense to have one plan with all the features for $20–$30 so more people can afford it, instead of charging $200 and having maybe only 200 out of the 1,000 customers able to pay? I get that part of the high price is probably to reduce usage of the more power-intensive features so they don’t overload their servers, but still—wouldn’t a lower cost plan that more people could buy make more sense than a high cost with fewer customers? I don’t quite understand the logic here.

I noticed that too, with the Pro plan.

That is, if you go through the iOS store like I did.

Honestly, it’s way too expensive for the Pro plan.

In Australian dollars, you’re looking at around 200 a month, or maybe even 300. Yeah, count me out.

It's £200 here. It is uncapped for most things, but I just didn't know if it had some extra magic sauce.

I'm getting into vibe programming and am super impressed with what I"m doing in XCode, as in, it is impressive, not me, so £200 a month could work if one was a professional. I guess, it's the question if it's 10 times as good, or if it's simply for those who don't want any limitations.

Just checking, limits are considerably higher but you do get access to GPT 5 Pro which is greater compute for more complex tasks.