Sam Altman Says Oops, They Accidentally Made the New Version of ChatGPT Worse Than the Previous One
Joe Wilkins
created: Jan. 29, 2026, 7:06 p.m. | updated: Feb. 8, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
It’s been a little over three years since the launch of the first commercially-available large language model (LLM) chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Case in point, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently conceded that the company had “screwed up” the language capabilities of its latest chatbot iteration, GPT-5.2.
“I think we just screwed that up,” Altman said at a developer town hall on Monday.
As Search Engine Journal points out, the release of GPT-5.2 came with a huge emphasis on technical tasks like coding and formatting spreadsheets.
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