Sam Altman said OpenAI “screwed up” GPT-5.2’s writing quality during a developer town hall Monday evening.
When asked about user feedback that GPT-5.2 produces writing that’s “unwieldy” and “hard to read” compared to GPT-4.5, Altman was blunt.
He said:
“I think we just screwed that up. We will make future versions of GPT 5.x hopefully much better at writing than 4.5 was.”
Altman explained that OpenAI made a deliberate choice to focus GPT-5.2’s development on technical capabilities:
“We did decide, and I think for good reason,…

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