What a 645‑person community survey signals about disproportionate harm—and what an ethic of reception requires On February 13, 2026, OpenAI plans to retire GPT‑4o from ChatGPT. OpenAI frames the decision as a routine upgrade: usage has shifted to newer models, and users can now customize tone (e.g., “Friendly,” warmth, enthusiasm) in the newer lineup.  But what looks like a product iteration at the platform level can function as something else entirely at the user level: an a